All screenings are $3 unless noted.* Peeping Tom (1960) Directed by Michael Powell October 2 - Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. This was the film considered so shocking when released in 1959 that it all but wrecked director Michael Powell’s career. A precursor to Hitchcock’s better-known Psycho, Powell’s film explores even more disquieting self-reflexive depths with its story of an obsessive photographer who films women while killing them. The film is at once, oddly, an indictment of horror and one of the finest examples of what the genre is capable of as it reveals the mechanisms and desires driving one man’s haunted thirst for violence, suffering and self-expression. (35mm. 101 min. Not Rated.) The Mask of Satan (1960) Directed by Mario Bava October 16 - Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. An elegant throwback to an earlier mode of horror storytelling, Mask of Satan recalls the Universal horror films of the 1930s. Director Mario Bava’s celebrated Grand Guignol style is on full display in this gothic tale of two hapless doctors who awaken a vampire-witch desperate to take her revenge on the descendents of the brother who had her put to death 200 years earlier. As the hypnotizing, diabolical Asa Vajda, Barbara Steele is by turns silkily sinister and demonically ferocious, perfectly suited to Bava’s lush yet ominous settings. (2K DCP. 87 min. Not Rated.) Suspiria (1976) Directed by Dario Argento October 23 - Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. After arriving at a European ballet academy, American dancer Suzy Bunion (Jessica Harper) soon discovers that all is not what it seems within the devilish corridors of the labyrinth-like school. One of director Dario Argento’s best known films, Suspiria is a terrifying journey into the dark heart of fairytale dementia, a dream-like collision of exploding color and ominous music (courtesy of a delightfully hysterical soundtrack by rock group GOBLIN) in which rationality is thrown out the window in favor of unleashing a sensory assault on the imagination. No one under 18 years of age will be admitted. (HD Digital. 92 min. Rated X.) 34 October Nights Tickets: (812) 855-1103