GIALLO GELATO 2026 -- MONDO GIALLO
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GIALLO GELATO 2026 RETURNS TO THE LOGAN THEATRE WITH MONDO GIALLO, AUGUST 21–23
A 50th Anniversary Global Giallo Celebration with three films from 1976
June 25, 2026 -- Gialloville, The World
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Everyone loves ice cream and murder! This August, Chicagoans can cool off at Logan’s Late Nights with a scoop and a scream as cult film curator and horror maven Stephanie “La Gialloholique” Sack returns with GIALLO GELATO 2026: MONDO GIALLO, a three-night plunge into the international evolution of the giallo, with each film celebrating its 50th anniversary.
This year, the black gloves are holding passports. Born in Italy in the mid-60s but far too stylish, sordid, and strange to stay put, by the mid-70s giallo became a global cinematic fever, spreading through post-Franco Spanish nightmare cinema, Carter-era American paranoia, and Italy’s own shadowy countryside, where folk horror, Catholic dread, and murder-mystery madness cross oceans and borders to bloom like poisonous flowers.
More than a genre, giallo is a language: beautiful people behaving badly, repressed memories, unreliable narrators, razor-sharp suspense, and psychosexual panic. MONDO GIALLO follows that language across three countries, tracing how filmmakers both inside and outside the classic Italian canon absorbed its colors, obsessions, and delirious style — then twisted them into something unmistakably their own.
Each screening begins at 11:00 PM and is personally introduced by Sack, whose deep knowledge and infectious passion for 20th-century Eurohorror will guide audiences through this wild, worldly expansion of the giallo universe. Whether you’re a diehard devotee or a curious newcomer, GIALLO GELATO: MONDO GIALLO serves up blood, beauty, bravura, and brain-freeze in equal measure.
And yes, there will be themed gelato flavors inspired by each night’s cinematic carnage. Because nothing says la dolce vita like ice cream and murder — especially when murder has gone international!
Tickets are $12 for each screening and are available here:
www.thelogantheatre.com/
Friday, August 21 — Who Can K*ll a Child? — 1976, Spain
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s blistering Spanish nightmare begins as sun-struck vacation horror and curdles into something far more disturbing: a ruthless confrontation with innocence, violence, and the unthinkable. Shocking, bleak, and impossible to shake, it remains one of the most morally provocative horror films of its era. This film screened at the Chicago International Film Fest in 1976!
Saturday, August 22 — Alice, Sweet Alice — 1976, United States
Originally screened under the title Communion, Alfred Sole’s grimy Catholic-gothic proto-slasher feels both deeply American and gloriously diseased. Set amid religious ritual, family resentment, and suburban decay, it delivers masked-killer thrills with the atmosphere of a bad dream. Its Chicago history only sweetens the appeal: this is not just a cult classic, but one with a documented connection to the 1976 Chicago International Film Festival.
Sunday, August 23 — The House With Laughing Windows — 1976, Italy
Pupi Avati’s masterwork of slow-building Italian dread is less a conventional giallo than a poisoned pastoral, luring viewers into a sleepy provincial landscape where post-war, post-Fascist rot waits beneath every surface: art, religion, desire, and memory. Eerie, elegant, and utterly corrosive, it is the kind of film that leaves an audience stunned into silence. Long difficult to see, The House With the Laughing Windows has recently been restored in a gorgeous new 4K edition.
GIALLO GELATO 2026: MONDO GIALLO
Late Nights at The Logan | August 21–23 | 11:00 PM nightly
The Logan Theatre | 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago
A 50th Anniversary Global Giallo Celebration with three films from 1976
June 25, 2026 -- Gialloville, The World
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Everyone loves ice cream and murder! This August, Chicagoans can cool off at Logan’s Late Nights with a scoop and a scream as cult film curator and horror maven Stephanie “La Gialloholique” Sack returns with GIALLO GELATO 2026: MONDO GIALLO, a three-night plunge into the international evolution of the giallo, with each film celebrating its 50th anniversary.
This year, the black gloves are holding passports. Born in Italy in the mid-60s but far too stylish, sordid, and strange to stay put, by the mid-70s giallo became a global cinematic fever, spreading through post-Franco Spanish nightmare cinema, Carter-era American paranoia, and Italy’s own shadowy countryside, where folk horror, Catholic dread, and murder-mystery madness cross oceans and borders to bloom like poisonous flowers.
More than a genre, giallo is a language: beautiful people behaving badly, repressed memories, unreliable narrators, razor-sharp suspense, and psychosexual panic. MONDO GIALLO follows that language across three countries, tracing how filmmakers both inside and outside the classic Italian canon absorbed its colors, obsessions, and delirious style — then twisted them into something unmistakably their own.
Each screening begins at 11:00 PM and is personally introduced by Sack, whose deep knowledge and infectious passion for 20th-century Eurohorror will guide audiences through this wild, worldly expansion of the giallo universe. Whether you’re a diehard devotee or a curious newcomer, GIALLO GELATO: MONDO GIALLO serves up blood, beauty, bravura, and brain-freeze in equal measure.
And yes, there will be themed gelato flavors inspired by each night’s cinematic carnage. Because nothing says la dolce vita like ice cream and murder — especially when murder has gone international!
Tickets are $12 for each screening and are available here:
www.thelogantheatre.com/
Friday, August 21 — Who Can K*ll a Child? — 1976, Spain
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s blistering Spanish nightmare begins as sun-struck vacation horror and curdles into something far more disturbing: a ruthless confrontation with innocence, violence, and the unthinkable. Shocking, bleak, and impossible to shake, it remains one of the most morally provocative horror films of its era. This film screened at the Chicago International Film Fest in 1976!
Saturday, August 22 — Alice, Sweet Alice — 1976, United States
Originally screened under the title Communion, Alfred Sole’s grimy Catholic-gothic proto-slasher feels both deeply American and gloriously diseased. Set amid religious ritual, family resentment, and suburban decay, it delivers masked-killer thrills with the atmosphere of a bad dream. Its Chicago history only sweetens the appeal: this is not just a cult classic, but one with a documented connection to the 1976 Chicago International Film Festival.
Sunday, August 23 — The House With Laughing Windows — 1976, Italy
Pupi Avati’s masterwork of slow-building Italian dread is less a conventional giallo than a poisoned pastoral, luring viewers into a sleepy provincial landscape where post-war, post-Fascist rot waits beneath every surface: art, religion, desire, and memory. Eerie, elegant, and utterly corrosive, it is the kind of film that leaves an audience stunned into silence. Long difficult to see, The House With the Laughing Windows has recently been restored in a gorgeous new 4K edition.
GIALLO GELATO 2026: MONDO GIALLO
Late Nights at The Logan | August 21–23 | 11:00 PM nightly
The Logan Theatre | 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago
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The Logan Theatre, 2646 N Milwaukee Ave,Chicago, Illinois, United States
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