Cinema Dissection: Cinephiles' Spooky Choice

The Witch

Cinema Dissection: The Witch

October 11, 2025

The votes are in! The winning film is The Witch. Join us for the scene-by-scene breakdown of Robert Egger's American Gothic debut feature film.

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 SIFF Programmer Dan Doody and local filmmaker Jeremy Cropf 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.