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Brivido Giallo
''Brivido Giallo'' is an Italian horror cable series that featured four full-length movies directed by Lamberto Bava. The films included in airing order are ''Graveyard Disturbance'', ''Until Death'', '' The Ogre'', and '' Dinner with a Vampire''. Production In the late 1980s Italian film productions began to flounder, so director Lamberto Bava decided to make a jump to television. He struck a deal with executive producers Gianfranco Transunto and Gianlorenzo Battaglia to make a cable television series that would consist of four full-length films. The plan was to have each film have a different tone: ''Graveyard Disturbance'' and '' Dinner with a Vampire'' having a comical approach and ''Until Death ''Until Death'' is a 2007 American vigilante action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and directed by Simon Fellows. It was released direct-to-DVD on April 24, 2007. Van Damme plays Anthony Stowe, a corrupt police detective addicted to heroin ...'' and '' The Ogre'' having a mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Fiction
Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which is in the realm of speculative fiction. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society. Prevalent elements of the genre include ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, the Devil, witches, monsters, extraterrestrials, dystopian and post-apocalyptic worlds, serial killers, cannibalism, cults, dark magic, satanism, the macabre, gore and torture. History Before 1000 The horror genre has ancient origins, with roots in folklore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamberto Bava
Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava. Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film ''La Venere d'Ille'' with his father and in 1980 directed his first solo feature film ''Macabre''. Bava continued working in the 1980s and collaborated with Dario Argento on films such as '' Demons''. After 1990, Bava's work was predominantly involved with television, such as his '' Fantaghirò'' series. Biography Lamberto Bava was born in Rome, Italy on 3 April 1944. Lamberto's father Mario Bava was a film director known primarily as a director of horror films. Lamberto's film career began in the mid-1960s working as an assistant director on his father's film ''Planet of the Vampires''. Lamberto would later collaborate with his father on several of his projects, including '' Danger: Diabolik'' (1966), ''Twitch of the Death Nerve'' (1971) and ''Shock'' (1977) (On ''Shock'', Lamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Manasse
Massimo, also Massimino, and Massimine () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Massimo Agostinelli (Max Agos) (born 1987), Swiss based Italian American artist, entrepreneur and activist *Massimo Agostini (born 1964), Italian football manager and former striker *Massimo Alioto (born 1972), associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore *Massimo Allevi (born 1969), former Italian pole vaulter * Massimo Ambrosini Cavaliere OMRI (born 1977), Italian former professional footballer *Massimo De Ambrosis (born 1964), Italian actor and voice actor *Massimo Amfiteatrof (1907–1990), Russian-born Italian cellist *Paolo Massimo Antici (1924–2003), Italian diplomat, founder of the Antici Group *Massimo Aparo (born 1953), Italian nuclear engineer * Massimo Apollonio (born 1970), former Italian racing cyclist * Massimo Ardinghi (born 1971), former professional tennis player from Italy *Massimo A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Grillo Spina
Marco may refer to: People * Marco (given name), people with the given name Marco * Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor * Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin * Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish composer and writer on music Places * Marco, Ceará, Brazil, a municipality * Marco, New Zealand, a locality in the Taranaki Region * Marco, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated town * Marco, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community * Marco Island, Florida, United States, a city and an island Science and technology * Mars Cube One (MarCO), a pair of small satellites which fly by Mars in 2018 * MARCO, a macrophage receptor protein that in humans is encoded by the MARCO gene * Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) * Marco, the official window manager of MATE Arts and entertainment * '' Marco: 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother'', a 1976 Japanese anime series, directed by Isao Takahata * ''Marco'' (film), a 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Boswell
Simon Boswell (born 15 October 1956) is a BAFTA-nominated British film score composer, conductor, producer and musician, with more than 100 credits to his name. He is known for combining mainly electronic elements with orchestral. Biography An alumnus of the independent The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Boswell studied English literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Playing the guitar since age 12, he was an accomplished guitarist and was signed by Transatlantic Records in 1975 whilst still at college. This led to the release of his first solo album, "The Mind Parasites", a collection of contemporary acoustic songs and instrumentals. He formed the band "Advertising" in 1977, at the beginning of the punk rock era. Labelled "Power Pop," the band was more of an homage to the pop art style of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground. They toured extensively with Blondie. After the split of "Advertising", Boswell became a record producer both in the United Kingdom and Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Program
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graveyard Disturbance
''Graveyard Disturbance'' ( it, Una notte al cimitero) is a 1987 television film directed by Lamberto Bava. Plot Five teen friends after stealing from a store end up in a gothic cemetery. While there they enter a tavern where the bartender challenges them to stay the night in a cursed crypt and if they survive the night, they get a treasure. Production Following the success of the film ''Demons'' and '' Demons 2'' and other foreign horror films in Italy, the company Reiteitalia would announce in July 1986 that a series titled ''Brivido giallo'' which would be made featuring five made-for-television film directed by Lamberto Bava. Of these films only four would be made: ''Graveyard Disturbance'', ''Until Death'', '' The Ogre'' and '' Dinner with a Vampire''. ''Graveyard Disturbance'' was originally developed under the title ''Dentro il cimitero'' (). Bava described the film as being not as heavy as his ''Demons'' films and would have more "relaxed" and "tongue-in-cheek" approach. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Until Death (1988 Film)
''Until Death'' ( it, Per sempre) is a 1988 Italian made-for-TV horror film directed by Lamberto Bava. Plot Linda (Gioia Scola) and her lover Carlo ( David Brandon) committed a horrible crime: eight years ago they murdered the woman's husband, Luca (Roberto Pedicini), while she was pregnant with his son. They hid the corpse and since then they are running a small hotel near a popular fishing lake. One rainy night a drifter named Marco (Urbano Barberini) arrives to the hotel, but he seems to know too many details about Linda's dead husband. Production Following the success of the film ''Demons'' and '' Demons 2'' and other foreign horror films in Italy, the company Reiteitalia would announce in July 1986 that a series titled ''Brivido giallo'' which would be made featuring five made-for-television film directed by Lamberto Bava. Of these films only four would be made: ''Graveyard Disturbance'', ''Until Death'', '' The Ogre'' and '' Dinner with a Vampire''. The films were shot bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ogre (1989 Film)
''The Ogre'' is a 1989 Italian television horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti. It was among four films made for the Italian television series '' Brivido Giallo''. The film released outside of Italy as ''Demons III: The Ogre'', where it was promoted as a sequel to Bava's films ''Demons'' and ''Demons 2''. Synopsis Cheryl, an American writer of horror novels, travels with her husband Tom, and their young son Bobby, to a villa in rural Italy for a few weeks of vacation, and for Cheryl to work on her latest book. When Cheryl begins having nightmares from when she was a child of being stalked by an ugly being, an ogre, she tries to persuade her skeptical husband that the villa has a curse on it and it is using its power to manifest her nightmares into reality, including the demon/ogre. Cheryl must find a way to face her fear and somehow defeat the ogre before it starts claiming victims. Production Following the success of the film ''Demons'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinner With A Vampire
''Dinner with a Vampire'' ( it, A cena col vampiro) is a 1989 Italian television horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti. It was among four films made for the Italian television series ''Brivido Giallo''. Plot Four actors win an audition to be in a horror movie and travel to the director's castle for a meeting and to spend the night. Unbeknown to them, the director is actually a vampire. The vampire challenges his guests to kill him. Killing this vampire, however, is achieved only in a unique way. Cast * George Hilton as Jurek * Riccardo Rossi as Gianni * Patrizia Pellegrino as Rita * Yvonne Sciò as Monica * Valeria Milillo as Sasha *Isabel Russinova as Veronica, Jurek's half vampire companion * Daniele Aldrovandi as Gilles * Igor Zalewsky as Ale * Letizia Ziaco as Nadia *Stefano Sabelli as Matteo *Roberto Pedicini as a director Production Following the success of the film ''Demons'' and '' Demons 2'' and other foreign horror films in Italy, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dardano Sacchetti
Dardano Sacchetti (born 1944 ) is an Italian screenwriter who often worked with Italian directors Lamberto Bava and Lucio Fulci. Screenwriting Sacchetti was born in 1944,in Italy. His first screen credit was for Dario Argento's film ''The Cat o' Nine Tails''. He predominantly worked with Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava. Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film ''La Venere d'Ille'' with his father and in .... He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s. Sacchetti stated that for his screenplays, he would only learn who the director would be a week before the film went into production. Producers such as De Angelis would come to him and ask him to write two to five lines for a film in various genres such as adventure films, westerns and pornography. Following this post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Italian Television Series Debuts
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13– 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
