Italian Masters of Horror series coming soon
Source: MobiusEncouraged by the success of Showtime's Masters of Horror series, the Film Commission of Turin has established a regional film fund whose first project will be an Italian variation of the show.
The four-movie series will employ veterans of the Italian genre-film scene, though the names they’re currently negotiating with have yet to be revealed (more details will be made public in June). One of the producers is Luciano Martino, who served that function on several fright features helmed by his brother Sergio (All the Colours of the Dark, The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Island of the Fishmen, Big Alligator River, etc.).
It sounds promising. I wouldn't be averse to seeing a new film from Sergio Martino (which I suspect will be the case if his brother is involved in the production), although by all accounts his post-giallo offerings have not exactly been stellar.
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Surprising, given Italian tv producers' shyness toward horror and fantasy in the last 5/10 years (we only had tons of police and detective series in every conceivable form, some historical romance and some comedy). My guess: one of the directors could be Lamberto Bava (Mario's son) who in the early Nineties had a long track of fantasy series for tv... Soavi could be in, too, while Infascelli and Manetti bros do not qualify as veterans.
By MCP, at 16:13
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