SUNDAY SCARIES: The House with Laughing Windows

Rightfully taking its place amongst the greatest giallos ever made, Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows offers a uniquely eerie twist on the genre, culminating in an unforgettable ending that remains with you long after the credits have rolled. Art restorer Stefano arrives at an isolated Italian village to repair a fresco depicting Saint Sebastian agonizing’s martyrdom. The original painter was a death artist: a madman so obsessed with mortality that, according to whispered rumors, he tortured his models in their final moments of life. When people in the village start turning up dead, Stefano is forced to consider that the artist has returned to his brutal career, with Stefano as the primary target. (Pupi Avati, Italy, 1976, 111 min.) In Italian with English subtitles