Dario Argento’s New Thriller Dark Glasses Comes to Shudder This October

Written and directed by Argento, Dark Glasses stars Ilenia Pastorelli, Andrea Zhang, and Asia Argento. It is produced by Urania Productions along with Conchita Airoldi and Laurentina Guidotti, as well as Getaway Films along with Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval, and Noemie Devide.

The official synopsis for Dark Glasses is as follows:

Rome. A serial killer who preys on prostitutes sets his sights on Diana. As he pursues her, he causes a car crash in which she is blinded and 10-year-old Chin’s entire family dies. Despite her blindness, Diane resolves to take the boy in. But the killer is still on the loose…

Dark Glasses Is Dario Argento’s First Film in Ten Years

Dario Argento made his directorial debut in 1970 with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, a giallo film that was a big success in Italy. He’d go on to direct other acclaimed thrillers over the years, such as the 1977 hit Suspiria, which was remade in 2018. In more recent years, Argento has not been behind the camera as often, with his last directorial feature, Dracula 3D, released in 2012. In a statement, Argento explained how Dark Glasses is one of those ideas he could never shake, inspired to write the story based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

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For me, Dark Glasses represents the culmination of a journey as an author that was engraved in my destiny,” Argento said. “Now that times have changed, I don’t want to betray the essence of the story, nor the style that interprets it. Everything pivots on the fulcrum of the solar eclipse that opens the film by superimposing the blinding light of day on the shadows formed on the ground by the people watching. Gradually, the shadows transform as the sun is darkened and yellow changes to midnight blue. It’s an omen that foreshadows the blindness that will overwhelm Diana, the protagonist.”

Of the two main characters in the film, Argento added, “I asked myself, as I do in all my films: ‘Who are they, and how do they move?’ In this case, they are two special people. She is an adult and she is blind; he is a child who is too young to get by on his own. And they come from two different cultures: she’s Italian, while the boy is Chinese. This combination is the driving force behind Dark Glasses, the axis on which the main story revolves. The pace and tone of the film go hand in hand with tension and suspense. Dark Glasses is what it’s meant to be: a very intense giallo thriller, with however a new added element, compared to my previous films – sentiment and tenderness.”

Dark Glasses will premiere exclusively on Shudder on Oct. 13.