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Demons (1985 Film)
''Demons'' ( it, Dèmoni) is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava, produced by Dario Argento, and starring Urbano Barberini and Natasha Hovey. Its plot follows two female university students who, along with a number of random people, are given complimentary tickets to a mysterious movie screening, where they soon find themselves trapped in the theater with a horde of ravenous demons. The story was originally planned to be part of a three-story horror anthology film written by Dardano Sacchetti, but Bava took interest in the story more than the others, so he and Sacchetti began developing it into a separate feature. Argento, beginning to be interested in producing films, would contribute to the screenplay with Franco Ferrini, who was brought in by Argento. Filming took place in Berlin and Rome in the summer of 1985. The film features an instrumental score composed by Claudio Simonetti, as well as a soundtrack that includes songs by such artists as Mötley Crüe a ... [...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] |
Michele Soavi
Michele Soavi, sometimes known as Michael Soavi (born 3 July 1957)Baldassarre, Angela (1999) "The Great Dictators: Interviews with Filmmakers of Italian Descent", Guernica Editions, is an Italian filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter best known for his work in the horror film genre, working alongside directors like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. Career Michele Soavi was born in Milan. As a teenager, Soavi enrolled in creative arts classes and worked at becoming an actor. He took acting lessons at Milan's Fersen Studios, and also served as a cameraman.Buchanan, JasonAllmovie Biography, allmovie.com, Macrovision Corporation Soavi's directorial career began when he was offered an assistant director job by Marco Modugno after appearing as an extra in Modugno's 1979 film ''Bambule''. Soavi continued to act in films such as '' Alien 2: On Earth'' and Lucio Fulci's ''City of the Living Dead'', and served as an assistant director to Aristide Massacessi (Joe D'Amato), and occasionally app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrizio De Angelis
Fabrizio De Angelis is an Italian director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Fabrizio De Angelis was born in Rome, Italy on November 15, 1940. De Angelis would produced a number of genre films for other directors such as those of Joe D'Amato's ''Emanuelle'' series, Lucio Fulci's horror films and Enzo G. Castellari's action films. His production companies were Fulvia Film, Fulvia CInematografica, and Deaf International Films. He often worked under the name Larry Ludman. Selected filmography Notes References * * * * * External links * 20th-century Italian people Italian film directors Italian screenwriters Living people Italian film producers Horror film directors Italian male screenwriters Year of birth missing (living people) {{italy-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Sabbath (film)
''Black Sabbath'' ( it, I tre volti della paura, lit=The Three Faces of Fear) is a 1963 horror anthology film directed by Mario Bava. The film consists of three separate tales that are introduced by Boris Karloff. The order in which the stories are presented varies among the different versions in which the film has been released. In the original, Italian print, the first story, titled "The Telephone", involves Rosy (Michèle Mercier) who continually receives threatening telephone calls from an unseen stalker. The second is "The Wurdulak", where a man named Gorca (Karloff) returns to his family after claiming to have slain a Wurdulak, an undead creature who attacks those that it had once loved. The third story, "The Drop of Water", is centered on Helen Corey (Jacqueline Pierreux), a nurse who steals a ring from a corpse that is being prepared for burial and finds herself haunted by the ring's original owner after arriving home. Being a low-budget horror film with multiple storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Shark
''Monster Shark'' ( it, Shark - Rosso nell'oceano) is a science fiction- horror film directed by Lamberto Bava. It was also released in various countries as ''Devil Fish'', ''Monster from the Red Ocean'', ''Devouring Waves'' and ''Shark: Red in the Ocean''. The script was co-written by Dardano Sacchetti, based on a story idea contributed by Luigi Cozzi and producer Sergio Martino. released in Italy from September 7, 1984, later in United States as ''Devil Fish'' in November 14, 1986, this was the final film distributed by Cinema Shares International Distribution. Plot The film takes place along a stretch of coastline somewhere in Florida, where a local tourist spot has become plagued by a mysterious marine creature. Unbeknownst to them, the monster is the product of a secret military experiment; it is a genetic hybrid mutated from a common octopus and the prehistoric ''Dunkleosteus''. Unfortunately, the creature has broken loose and is now feeding on swimmers and tourists swimmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blastfighter
''Blastfighter'' is a 1984 action film directed by Lamberto Bava starring Michael Sopkiw and George Eastman. Plot Jake "Tiger" Sharp (Michael Sopkiw) is a former policeman who seeks revenge after his wife is murdered. After killing the murderer, Sharp is sentenced to seven years in prison. Upon release Jake is given an SPAS-12 Shotgun by his old friend Jerry in order to wreak vengeance upon the crooked attorney responsible for sending him away. However, Jake instead at the last minute decides to return to his secluded cabin in the Appalachian wilderness and bury his gun in the floorboards. Matters become complicated when a group of poachers run afoul of him and kill his baby deer. Jake goes to the Chinese herbal medicinist's office that the hunters have been selling to and smashes up the place. Jake's estranged daughter Connie then joins him with Jerry and her boyfriend, but all of them are killed off when the hunters decide to get revenge for scaring away the herbal medicinist. J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Blade In The Dark
''A Blade in the Dark'' ( it, La casa con la scala nel buio, lit=The House with the Dark Staircase) is a 1983 Italian ''giallo'' film directed by Lamberto Bava. Originally planned for television, the film was made as a nearly two hour piece split into four parts each of which would end with a murder scene. After the film was found to be too gruesome for Italian television censors, it was re-edited into a feature film. Plot The film begins with three boys entering an old house, two pushing the third boy inside, where he's to take a dare. The pair gang up on gim by throwing a tennis ball into the basement, saying he's a "girl" if he doesn't retrieve it and chanting he's a "female" when he hesitates. The boy slowly shuffles down in fear and suspense, and a scream is heard when he's out of sight. The ball is thrown back, stained with blood, causing the two other boys to flee out of their own terror. Musician Bruno is hired to compose soundtrack for an upcoming horror film, renting t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giallo
In Italian cinema, ''Giallo'' (; plural ''gialli'', from ''giallo'', Italian for yellow) is a genre of mystery fiction and thrillers that often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements. This particular style of Italian-produced murder mystery horror-thriller film usually blends the atmosphere and suspense of thriller fiction with elements of horror fiction (such as slasher violence) and eroticism (similar to the French '' fantastique'' genre), and often involves a mysterious killer whose identity is not revealed until the final act of the film. The genre developed in the mid-to-late 1960s, peaked in popularity during the 1970s, and subsequently declined in commercial mainstream filmmaking over the next few decades, though examples continue to be produced. It was a predecessor to, and had significant influence on, the later American slasher film genre. Literature In the Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geretta Geretta
Geretta Geretta (born Geretta Marie Giancarlo; is an American actress, director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Ireland, South Africa, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. Her film roles include several Italian horror films, including Lucio Fulci's ''Murder Rock'' (1984) and Lamberto Bava's ''Demons (1985 film), Demons'' (1985). Geretta has completed the MFA program in screenwriting at the American Film Institute. Biography Geretta Geretta was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. In 1996, Northern Ireland Film and Television Collective ''Northern Visions'' published her collection of 100 poems and verse titled ''Pardon Me While I Eat My Young''. While living in New Orleans she has been writing her first novel, tentatively titled ''I Was Young and Needed Money'', which chronicles her early years as a horror scream queen in Europe. Geretta also served as the creative director of the non-profit "TheWriteRoom.org". The group's mission was "to advance the impact of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicoletta Elmi
Nicoletta Elmi (born 13 February 1964) is an Italian film actress. She appeared in many films in the 1970s as a child actress, but also appeared in several roles in adulthood in the 1980s. Career She is best known for (but was not limited to) a series of roles as a child in Italian horror films, especially the giallo subgenre. Her film career started in 1969 with an uncredited appearance in ''Le Sorelle'' (Italian for ''The Sisters''), followed later in the same year by an appearance as Rosy in Ettore Maria Fizzarotti's musicarello ''Il suo nome è Donna Rosa'' (Italian for ''Her Name is Donna Rosa''), a role she reprised the following year in the sequel ''Mezzanotte d'amore'' (Italian for ''Midnight of love''). In 1971 she made an uncredited appearance as the little girl at the table in Luchino Visconti's ''Death in Venice''. In 1971 she made an uncredited appearance as the unnamed daughter of Renata and Albert (Claudine Auger and Luigi Pistilli respectively) in Mario Bava's ''A B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebar
Rebar (short for reinforcing bar), known when massed as reinforcing steel or reinforcement steel, is a steel bar used as a Tension (physics), tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid the concrete under tension. Concrete is strong under Compression (physics), compression, but has weak tensile strength. Rebar significantly increases the tensile strength of the structure. Rebar's surface features a continuous series of ribs, lugs or indentations to promote a better bond with the concrete and reduce the risk of slippage. The most common type of rebar is carbon steel, typically consisting of hot-rolled round bars with deformation patterns embossed into its surface. Steel and concrete have similar coefficient of thermal expansion, coefficients of thermal expansion, so a concrete structural member reinforced with steel will experience minimal differential stress (mechanics), stress as the temperature changes. Other readily available ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk Subculture
The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-establishment views, the promotion of individual freedom, and the DIY ethics, the culture originated from punk rock. The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action, and not "selling out". There is a wide range of punk fashion, including T-shirts, leather jackets, Dr. Martens boots, hairstyles such as brightly coloured hair and spiked mohawks, cosmetics, tattoos, jewellery, and body modification. Women in the hardcore scene typically wore masculine clothing. Punk aesthetics determine the type of art punks enjoy, which typically has underground, minimalist, iconoclastic, and satirical sensibilities. Punk has generated a considerable amount of poetry a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
