Mario Bava's Hatchet For The Honeymoon screens at Revue Cinema, Friday

In a special tribute to the late Stephen Forsyth, the Revue Cinema is screening Hatchet For The Honeymoon tonight at 6:45 pm.

Stompbox presents Mario Bava's Hatchet For The Honeymoon 

A tribute to T.O. born star Stephen Forsyth

Stompbox is presenting a special tribute to HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON star Stephen Forsyth (1938-2025) with rare, never-seen, original film and music memorabilia from Forsyth’s own personal archives of his time in the 1960s & 1970s Italian film industry, courtesy of The Candy Bar!

Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian giallo genre, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening gems: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (Il rosso segno della follia). Canada’s own Stephen Forsyth stars as John Harrington, the head of an affluent fashion house, who harbors an uncontrollable bloodlust for women in bridal veils. Only by murdering a succession of them, can he delve deeper into his subconscious and bring to light the primal scene that spawned his very specific homicidal fetish. With its director doubling as cinematographer, HATCHET is one of Bava's most visually sumptuous films. (Kino Lorber)

Toronto-born HATCHET star Stephen Forsyth, who passed away on September 12, 2025, was a beloved fixture of the Kensington Market neighbourhood. But also had a successful run as a marquee actor in Italy in the 1960s and early 1970s, including westerns BLOOD CALLS TO BLOOD and IN A COLT’S SHADOW, and climaxing in his final and best remembered film role, as the disturbed lead of HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON, before leaving Italy to focus on music composition, photography and an array of artistic interests up until his passing.

Close friend of Mr. Forsyth, Paola Giavedoni, owner of The Candy Bar – College Street’s beloved candy and confectionary institution and longtime sponsor of the Revue Cinema’s Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party - will be bringing a collection of posters, photos, and memorabilia from the personal archives of Mr. Forsyth, documenting his time at the nerve centre of Italian film history and his work with the incomparable Mario Bava. 

Get tickets for the Stompbox screening of Hatchet For The Honeymoon right here. Watch the trailer below. 

Mario Bava's Planet Of The Vampires screens @ Fox Theatre, Sunday

Mario Bava's 1965 creepy sci-fi thriller Planet Of The Vampires makes a rare T.O. big screen appearance at the Fox Sunday night.

Here's the scoop...

The Fox Theatre's "Detour" series is going galactic on Sunday (February 16) with Mario Bava’s gloriously atmospheric “terror in space” tour de force "Planet of the Vampires" from 1965 starring Hollywood veteran Barry Sullivan (Suspense, Framed, Tension, Pyro... The Thing Without A Face, etc) and Brazilian actress Norma Bengell (A Casa Assassinada) along with an international support cast all speaking their lines in their own language – to everyone's confusion on set – later dubbed in English. 

Two giant spaceships crash land on a previously unexplored mist-enshrouded planet after intercepting a distress call from the far reaches of space. Is it a desperate cry for help…or something far more sinister? The investigation leads the crew members to clash with a horde of disembodied, soul-snatching aliens with a diabolical plan beyond their worst nightmares!

Planet of the Vampires was the sole science-fiction film from Bava, Italy's master of the macabre, and it's a clear influence on movies like Ridley Scott's “Alien,” with its eerie tone and unique visual style beyond the obvious narrative similarities. Plus with the always entertaining Bava at the helm, you get creepy/fun elements more typical of his low-budget horror films of the era such as heaps of swirling fog, monolithic gravestones, and a giant skeleton (!) along with our man's signature elements of gore, shock and a suitably unsettling score to tie it all nicely together. What's not to love? 

Planet of the Vampires screens at the Fox Theatre (2236 Queen St. East) on Sunday (February 16) at 9 pm. Get tickets right here. Watch the trailer below. 

Mario Bava's Danger: Diabolik screens @ TIFF Bell Lightbox, Saturday

Mario Bava's futuristic thriller Danger: Diabolik from 1968 comes with a swingin' Ennio Morricone soundtrack. See it tonight at 9:45 pm.