DEEP RED

This event is part of Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Big Scream 2026. Visit **\www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk** **to see the full line-up as well as buy weekend and day festival passes. **

Original Title: Profondo Rosso | Dir. Dario Argento | Italy | 126 mins | Cert. 18

“Deep Red serves as the quintessential Dario Argento film, full of fantastically surreal...madness, anchored by dazzling cinematography, disturbing yet insidiously fun murder sequences, and the first of many banger [Goblin] scores.” - Cineapse

We couldn’t do a line-up of European horrors without including a film from the master of giallo - the ultra-violent slasher sub-genre - Dario Argento.

With Deep Red, Argento arguably perfected the ultimate giallo movie complete with its spook-a-delic prog-rock score from regular collaborators Goblin that beautifully complements the movie’s dreamy mood.

One night in Turin, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow-Up) witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems… 

For those new to the genre, Deep Red is a hallucinatory fever dream of a slasher featuring some of the most astonishing set-pieces the sub-genre has to offer. And for those familiar with the horror classic, enjoy it on the biggest screen in Bristol!

The film will be introduced by Becky Sands 

We will be screening the film in its English/Italian hybrid presentation. The English audio track has some portions of English audio missing. English audio for these sections was either never recorded or has been lost. As such, these sequences are presented with Italian audio, subtitled in English.