EXCLUSVE: Underseen Giallo ‘The House With Laughing Windows’ Comes To Fantasia
Get ready for a giallo unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Pupi Avati’s 1976 giallo masterpiece The House With Laughing Windows is getting the 4K treatment, and the restoration will have its world premiere at the 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival. If you think you know giallo, get ready for Avati to shatter your expectations.
Read the full synopsis below:
Art restorer Stefano (Lino Capolicchio, The Bloodstained Shadow) arrives at an isolated Italian village to repair a fresco depicting the agonizing martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. 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 begin to turn up dead, Stefano is forced to consider the possibility that the artist has returned to continue his brutal career—and that he is the primary target.
Watch the official trailer for the 4K restoration coming to Fantasia this month:
Vanna Busoni, Lino Capolicchio, Gianni Cavina, Francesca Marciano, and Giulio Pizzirani star in the film.
The House With Laughing Windows premieres at Fantasia on July 23, 2025, and comes to Blu-ray and 4K later this year. For more info about the festival screening, visit Fantasia’s website.
Keep an eye on Dread Central for more updates about the film’s wider release!
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