20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Spotting 2002

Le ombre della paura: il cinema italiano del terrore '60/'80

The Shadows of Fear: the Italian Horror Film 1960-'80

Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 85'


These are two fundamental decades in the history of Italian horror and suspense films. This documentary trances the genesis and development of this particular genre through interviews with its most famous and representative personalities. These are the people who knew how to frighten their audiences in the dark of the movie theaters from 1960 to 1980 and so make their films so original and appreciated.

"In this documentary we have tried to vouch for the physical and historical existence of a film genre that has been disparaged and put aside in its ghetto. However, it is a genre that managed to put the fears, desires, illusions, and expectations of Italian society on stage. This is a society that was going through radical changes from the years of the economic boom to those of lead-bullet terrorism" (M. Cruciani, P. Fazzini).

Biography

film director

Paolo Fazzini

Paolo Fazzini (Ascoli Piceno, 1974) founded Gore Bros in 1989. In 1994 he attended a course in video directing held at the Fuori Campo society in Milan. In 1995 he moved to Rome, where he currently writes and directs documentaries and short films.

FILMOGRAFIA

Fratello di sangue (cm, 1998), Persi nello specchio di nessuno (cm, 1998), L'ultima stanza (cm, 1998), Passi (cm, 1999), L'uomo astratto (cm, 2001), Musica tra le sbarre (doc., 2001).

Marco Cruciani

Marco Cruciani (Montefiore dell'Aso, Ascoli Piceno; 1975) graduated in sociology from La Sapienza University in Rome. His thesis in film anthropology focused on Italian horror film with a special emphasis on the works of Mario Bava. While he was studying, he began to work as actor, screenwriter and editor with Gore Bros, a small independent movie studio. With it he worked as film storywriter, co-screenwriter, assistant cinematographer and assistant editor for the films, Passi and L'uomo astratto.

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura: Marco Cruciani, Paolo Fazzini.
Director of photography: Marco Cruciani, Daniele Casolino.
Sound: Svevo Bandini.
Musica, montaggio: Daniele Casolino.
Cast: Lamberto Bava, Daria Nicolodi, Pupi Avati, Antonio Margheriti, Antonio Bido, Claudio Simonetti, Armando Crispino, Aldo Lado, Renato Polselli, Luigi Cozzi, Sergio Martino, Dardano Sacchetti, Gabriele Barrera, Giannetto De Rossi, Antonella Fulci, Antonio Tentori.
Production company:´´Daniele Casolino per JN Graphics, via Semeghini 11,00155 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-22773918, www.jn-g.com, e-mail angel_dust@iol.it; Marco Cruciani, Paolo Fazzini per Gore Bros, via Eurialo 19, 00181 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-7847432, www.gorebros.it, e-mail gorebross@tin.it.
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