UK Premiere: Danger: Diabolik: Film Noir UK
Wed 22 Jul
|Cinema Rediscovered (Watershed, Bristol)
Time & Location
22 Jul 2026, 20:30 – 22:30
Cinema Rediscovered (Watershed, Bristol), 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX, UK
About the Event
Based on Milanese sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani’s iconic popular 1960s comic, Danger: Diabolik is a stylish cult classic riffing off the Bond phenomenon, now newly restored.
Clad in a sleek, skin-tight black cowl, master thief Diabolik (John Phillip Law) and his glamorous accomplice Eva Kant (Marisa Mell) operate from a cavernous, high-tech underground hideout, plotting daring, often absurd, heists. They consistently outwit Inspector Ginko (a hilarious Michel Piccoli) and his league of not-so-extraordinary detectives.
Danger: Diabolik was originally started under direction of British filmmaker Seth Holt, who was fired by legendary Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis when he was unsatisfied with early footage. De Laurentiis employed celebrated craftsman of Italian giallo Mario Bava, who brought his distinctive colourful visual style and technical ingenuity to the project. Throw in Ennio Morricone’s wildly experimental score, which combines elements of psychedelia, disco, funk, free jazz, and rock opera, and you have a…