Dark Glasses: Dario Argento’s first film in ten years get first image reveal

Last Updated on November 3, 2021

Nearly ten years after the release of Dracula 3D (watch it HERE), we finally have a new film to look forward to from director Dario Argento – and the sales company Wild Bunch International has just unveiled the first image from Argento’s Dark Glasses! The image can be seen below.

Dark Glasses finished filming back in August and is currently in post-production. Argento and the producers are aiming to have it ready for a 2022 debut.

Described as a classic giallo with a touch of horror, the film stars Ilenia Pastorelli as

a prostitute blinded by a serial killer in a botched attack. She takes in a young Chinese boy, whose life has also been abruptly altered forever by the maniac’s actions. He will become her ally in a terrifying struggle to see off the serial killer forever.

Pastorelli is joined in the cast by Andrea Zhang and Asia Argento.

Dark Glasses is produced by Conchita Airoldi and Laurentina Guidotti of Urania Pictures, along with Getaway Films. Screen Daily provides the following information: “Set against the backdrop of Rome and its surrounding countryside, it brings together the contrasting worlds of a high-class prostitute working in the chic hotels around Rome’s Via Veneto and a young boy hailing from the city’s Chinese community.”

Dario Argento had this to say about Dark Glasses:

She’s an adult and blind, he’s too young to get by on his own. In addition, two different cultures: she is Italian, the child is Chinese. This combination is the engine of Dark Glasses. The film represents my desire to explore two worlds: hers, we know it; his is more mysterious, and it will let us enter the neighbourhoods, houses and customs of the Chinese community in Rome, where they created a real ‘Chinatown’.”

It’s good to see that Argento, who is 81 years old now, has made another movie after all this time. Here’s the first image from Dark Glasses: