"Nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work. I won't deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against the sinner."

Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, lust — everyone has a sin. In director David Fincher's intensely claustrophobic, gut-wrenching psychological thriller SE7EN, "sin" takes centre stage - in one of cinema's most memorably grisly displays of pathological horror.

For detectives William Somerset and David Mills they live among these sins, every day, a crumbling city of crime all around them. But nothing can prepare the partners for the killings they are about to experience, all of which begins when they find a morbidly obese man who has died from the forced ingestion of spaghetti. What starts as one bizarre crime turns into a case of serial murders as a predator named John Doe begins to execute victims by paying homage to the "deadly sin" they represent.

Starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey, SE7EN is an intensely claustrophobic, grisly thrill ride - and one of the defining movies of the mid-90s - a perfect choice for inclusion in the Rio Theatre's Friday Late Night Movie series.

"From its stylish opening credits to its utterly shocking denouement, it’s a master class in nerve-fraying nihilism." (Film Frenzy)

"A stone cold classic, especially from a technical point of view. It's incredibly moody, cements a number of tropes for serial killer/crime texts, and (despite the presence of Spacey), John Doe and that finale are iconic." (Horror Queers Podcast)

"'Seven', a dark, grisly, horrifying and intelligent thriller, may be too disturbing for many people, I imagine, although if you can bear to watch it, you will see filmmaking of a high order. " (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)

Friday, March 21
Doors 11:00 pm | Movie 11:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Late Night Date Night! Bring a friend, date, or fellow horror-lover and get two-for-one entry!

SE7EN (David Fincher, 1995 / 127 mins / 18A) When retiring police Detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) tackles a final case with the aid of newly transferred David Mills (Brad Pitt), they discover a number of elaborate and grisly murders. They soon realize they are dealing with a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) who is targeting people he thinks represent one of the seven deadly sins. Somerset also befriends Mills' wife, Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), who is pregnant and afraid to raise her child in the crime-riddled city.