CG Entertainment and Cat People have announced that The House with Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono), Pupi Avati's masterpiece of Italian Gothic horror, will return to theaters on July 13.
To celebrate the re-release, Pupi Avati and Antonio Avati will meet audiences at Rome's Cinema Troisi during a special screening scheduled for June 23 at 7:00 PM.
Tickets and event details for the June 23 special screening.
Theater listings for the July 13 re-release will be available soon on Cat People.
Distributed by CG Entertainment, The House with Laughing Windows (Italy, 1976 – 110 min.) will return to theaters in collaboration with Cat People in a newly restored 4K version. The restoration was carried out by SND and the Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory using the original camera negatives provided by ACEK.
THE MOVIE
Considered one of the masterpieces of Italian giallo cinema, The House with Laughing Windows is also one of Pupi Avati's defining works. Blending realism with nightmare-like imagery, the director crafts a haunting tale in which mystery seeps into the quiet rhythms of rural life, turning familiar places into sources of unease.
The story follows Stefano, a young art restorer assigned to restore a disturbing fresco depicting the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, painted by an artist who took his own life years earlier. Upon arriving in a remote village in Italy's Po Valley, he becomes entangled in a web of secrets, silence, and murder, eventually uncovering the dark truth hidden behind the painting.
“It's a story about mad people. Up until then, I had told stories about harmless, almost magical eccentrics, people who carried a sense of warmth. This time, instead, I told one of the countless tales born from my own land, invented on the spot for one purpose only: to frighten. And when I was a child, fear was a way of teaching”. — Pupi Avati
The screenplay was written by Pupi Avati, Antonio Avati, Gianni Cavina, and Maurizio Costanzo.
The cast includes Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, and Giulio Pizzirani.
The score was composed by Amedeo Tommasi, while the special effects were created by Giovanni Corridori and Luciano Anzellotti.
To mark the film's re-release, a new commemorative poster has been unveiled:
