Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA Screens Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli

“Bad luck isn’t brought by broken mirrors, but by broken minds”

Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA plays midnights this weekend (June 1st and 2nd) at the Tivoli as part of their Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series.

Director Dario Argento redefined horror in 1977 with his masterpiece SUSPIRIA, the CITIZEN KANE of Italian cinema, a Brother’s Grimm Fairy Tale of outrageously nightmarish proportions. Jessica Harper plays Suzy, an American ballet student, studying at an exclusive dance academy in the Black Forest of Germany. After one of the students and her friend are hideously murdered in the first of Argento’s breath-catching set-piece killings, Suzy discovers that the academy has a bizarre history and, as the body count rises, she gets involved in a hideous labyrinth of murder, black magic and madness.I first saw SUSPIRIA at the 66 Drive-In in Crestwood (double-billed with HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN) when it was a new movie on my 16th birthday, the day I got my driver’s license. I didn’t even know who Dario Argento was at the time but I can still remember the thunder and lightning, the flamboyant colors, the awesome set-design, and the strong, pounding score by Goblin. Driven by a twisted internal logic, SUSPIRIA has the inherent structure of madness and it would be madness indeed if you were to pass up the chance to see it on the big screen.

The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar in The Loop. Visit Landmark’s The Tivoli’s website HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/1731671710204779/

Here’s the Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight schedule for the next couple of months:

June 8-9               BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM 

June 15-16          LIQUID SKY (Vladislav Tsukerman)  New digital restoration of the 1983 cult hit! – 35th Anniversary

June 22-23          CLUE 

June 29-30          THE EVIL DEAD

July 6-7                 ROBOCOP (1987)

July 13-14            AKIRA

July 20-21            YELLOW SUBMARINE