The Ill Repute

Free entry! Having a bad week? Hit the Ill Repute basement for Sergio Martino’s giallo wellness package! All the Colours of the Dark is a phantasmagorical acid-laced nightmare featuring a blue-eyed stalker, a satanic coven and a pet puppy having a particularly bad time (consider yourselves warned). You’ve got absolutely no chance of keeping your grip on reality, let alone your pint… All the Colours of Giallo

Free entry! Steven Shainberg’s BDSM cult classic is an acerbic and self-aware examination of subversive sex and office domination. James Spader plays the perfect vessel for redirected desire as a buttoned-up lawyer who draws a career-best Maggie Gyllenhaal into a fucked-up, hilarious and strangely compassionate relationship. NSFW indeed… Biweekly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute

Free entry! The Mount Everest of film noir, with Orson Welles voicing Graham Greene’s electrifying dialogue, chasing shadows and haunting zither music round dank Vienna backstreets. Intrigue, drama, sophistication and camera angles are all absolutely off the chart from the first frame. Cinephiles, refresh your hot take; first-timers, welcome to the top! Harry Lime is dead…but by what means? Murdered, according to his childhood friend Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton), who becomes convinced of a conspiracy theory against him, all while at the same time falling head-over-heels for Lime’s old lover Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli).

A haunting vision of what giallo might have become… Luigi Bazzoni’s The Possessed casts a mournful noir atmosphere over the genre. No black gloves or excess bloodshed here, just a melancholic maze of sorrow and desire as a writer searches for his missing lover through lakeside shadows. It’s a visually exquisite, terrifyingly scored portrait of doomed longing. All the Colours of Giallo

Free entry! Killer ravens, phantoms in the opera, hallucinatory visuals, Brian Eno on the buttons – with Opera, Argento done fully out-Argento-ed himself, scoring arguably his last true masterpiece (sorry Dracula 3D). Pure widescreen terror with buckets of giallo trash/class that’ll put you off the theatre for life… All the Colours of Giallo