Cinema Dissection: Cinephiles' Spooky Choice

Cinema Dissection

October 11, 2025

You're the programmer! Help choose the film for our spooky Cinema Dissection. Vote by September 15, and the winning selection will be announced on October 1.

This year SIFF celebrates the Halloween spooky season by allowing our audience members to determine which horror genre classic will be the subject for our October cinema dissection. Will it be Robert Eggers’s American Gothic debut feature film, The Witch? Perhaps you prefer David Robert Mitchell’s paranoid supernatural chiller, It Follows? Maybe John Landis’s consummate blend of terror, gore, and comedy, An American Werewolf in London? Or The Hunger, Tony Scott’s erotic revisionist vampire thriller?

Whichever film wins the vote, join facilitator and SIFF Programmer Dan Doody for a scene-by-scene deconstruction of a terrifying classic film guaranteed to haunt your nightmares.

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Saturday, October 11, 2025

SIFF Film Center

10:00 AM

CLASS SPECIFICS
Saturday, October 11, 2025
10:00am–4:00pm PT
SIFF Film Center
$30 Sustainer | $25 Regular | $20 Member

ABOUT CINEMA DISSECTION
Cinema Dissection affords film lovers an exciting opportunity to dig deeper into the films that they love. Inspired by Roger Ebert's annual Cinema Interruptus in Boulder, CO, attendees will participate with a facilitator in a six-hour scene-by-scene, and sometimes shot-by-shot, deconstruction of the featured film. While the facilitator will certainly share their thoughts, anyone in the audience may call out "Stop" and either ask a question of the group or make an observation around a certain shot or moment in the film.

Dan Doody

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
A Seattle-area native, Dan Doody received a degree in English from Western Washington University, and began working for the Seattle International Film Festival in 1999. He programs both features and short films for the festival, serving on the WTF! committee and as the festival's lead coordinator for its Oscar® qualifying ShortsFest section. He is an enthusiast of the gothic in both film and literature, the pagan-haunted pastorals found in English ghost stories, and the seedy streets of film noir. He could quite happily live in a crumbling castle so long as it was within walking distance of a neon-lit diner on a rain-slicked city boulevard.