The Ill Repute

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… Secretary 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! The Third Man at The Ill Repute.

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

Free entry! WITCHHHHH! Down with Thom Yorke! Up the Goblin! There's only one true Suspiria and this is it – the definitive lurid giallo masterstroke from Argento, imitated to death and never once bettered. Must-see, every-day-is-Halloween cinema. Fortnightly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute