Streaming service Shudder and IFC Midnight have announced a theatrical run of the highly-anticipated Shudder Original Italian thriller “Dark Glasses” beginning Friday, October 7, at the IFC Center in New York and the Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles, ahead of the film’s streaming debut on Thursday, October 13. Additional theaters, to be announced later, will follow beginning Friday, October 14.
“Dark Glasses” marks the long-awaited return of Italian master of horror and acclaimed writer-director Dario Argento (“Suspiria”). “‘Dark Glasses’ is a film that I imagined a few years ago and was unable to make, but that I never stopped thinking about,” shared Argento in a statement.
In it, an eclipse blackens the skies on a hot summer day in Rome – a harbinger of the darkness that will envelop Diana (Ilenia Pastorelli) when a serial killer chooses her as prey. Fleeing her predator, the young escort crashes her car and loses her sight. She emerges from the initial shock determined to fight for her life, but she is no longer alone. Defending her and acting as her eyes is a little boy, Chin (Andrea Zhang), who survived the car accident. But the killer won’t give up his victim. Who will be saved?
“Dark Glasses” is written and directed by Dario Argento, produced by Urania Productions along with Conchita Airoldi and Laurentina Guidotti, and Getaway Films along with Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval, and Noëmie Devide.
