''Tulpa'' ( it, Tulpa – Perdizioni mortali) is a 2012 Italian ''

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co-written and directed by

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. It premiered at the 2012

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and was released in Italy on 20 June 2013.

Plot

Lisa Boeri is a businesswoman with a secret double life: if during the day she is a busy and serious worker, the night she is an assiduous frequenter of the private club Tulpa, owned by a haunting Tibetan guru, where the sickest fantasies of customers become reality. But the fiery lovers who attended Lisa begin to die one by one in increasingly cruel ways, and the woman finds herself involved in the chain of murders. Forced to investigate on her own, not to discover her double life to the police, she will face a terrible escalation of death, mystery and eroticism.

Cast

Claudia Gerini Claudia Gerini (; born 18 December 1971) is an Italian actress and singer. Life and career Born in Rome, Gerini won the National Competition of Miss Teenager in 1985. She got her first part in a film, ''La ballata di Eva'', at 14. She subsequ ...

as Lisa Boeri *

Michela Cescon Michela Cescon (born 13 April 1971) is an Italian actress. Her film credits include '' Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy'', ''Salty Air'', ''Viva la libertà'', '' Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti'', ''First Love'' and ''Tulpa T ...

as Giovanna * Nuot Arquint as Kiran *

Michele Placido Michele Placido (; born 19 May 1946) is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. He began his career on stage, and first gained mainstream attention through a series of roles in films directed by the likes of Mario Monicelli and Marco ...

as Roccaforte * Ennio Tozzi as Ferri *

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as Stefan * Crisula Stafida as Giulia

Reception

The film received generally positive reviews by Italian film critics. It was referred as "more than a tribute to the masters of the genre of the Seventies", "an attempt to resurrect an imaginary, a disenchanted and passionate way of making films". Film critic Natalino Bruzzone wrote: "''Tulpa'' has defects and failures, but its constant, uncertain balance between suspense, frightening visual style, grotesque and liberating sense of the absurd make it interesting".

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tulpa 2012 films 2012 horror thriller films 2010s English-language films 2010s Italian films English-language Italian films Giallo films Italian horror thriller films