Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc for his most dangerous case yet in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third and darkest chapter of Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. This latest entry hearkens back to the literary lineage of the murder mystery, inspired by early practitioners of the genre like Edgar Allan Poe, and onward to titans like Agatha Christie, and underappreciated masters like John Dickson Carr. Gothic in tone, with its all-star, award-winning cast unraveling the mystery amidst cavernous chapels and foggy graveyards, Wake Up Dead Man is sure to revive your love of a great whodunnit, and make you want more.

To keep you guessing after who killed who and why, The Paris Theater proudly presents The Game is Afoot: A Blanc Slate of Whodunnits, a repertory film series of some of cinema’s most deliciously confounding detective tales and murder mysteries, chosen by Rian Johnson himself!  The films in this series span nearly eighty years of film history, some paying homage to the hallmarks of the genre and others offering fabulous modern twists on the detective story’s tried-and-true formula – all of them doing so with the aid of star-studded ensemble casts and unforgettable locations. Each film will be preceded by a special recorded introduction by Rian Johnson.

We’ve got the classic detectives whose reputations have endured for years, from the famous deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes in 1939’s The Hound of the Baskervilles (35mm print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive), to Peter Ustinov as the beloved Hercule Poirot in a pair of Agatha Christie adaptations, Death on the Nile (1978) and Evil Under the Sun (1982). We’ve also unearthed some incredibly entertaining gems from years past such as Ladies in Retirement starring Ida Lupino. Rounding out the series are films overflowing with memorable star turns in their who’s-who of suspects: the frightfully entertaining The Last of Sheila, penned by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, Robert Altman’s Academy Award-winning upstairs-downstairs murder mystery Gosford Park, the Ireland-set clash between a priest and his dastardly flock in Calvary, and a 70mm screening of Quentin Tarantino’s marriage of the Western genre with the whodunit, The Hateful Eight.

The Game is Afoot kicks off on December 10 with The Last of Sheila, introduced by Rolling Stone critic David Fear! Tickets to all screenings are available now.