Italian Masters of Horror info
Following on from the news I
posted back in May about an Italian equivalent to Showtime's
Masters of Horror series, some official information has now materialised regarding the directors involved and the plots for their films, courtesy of
Variety (and their usual bizarre, grammatically incorrect lingo):
Unveiled to journos in Rome's skull-filled wax museum, the four-pic Masters of Italian Horror package is co-produced by Luce with Luciano Martino's Dania Film and the Turin Film Commission. Luce is seeking an international sales company for the slashers, which are to be completed by June 2007...
Low-budget pics will be shot digitally in Piedmont, at the foot of the Italo Alps...
Package will include the following:
- [Umberto] Lenzi's "Horror Baby," about a 15-year-old paraplegic girl who becomes a serial killer after viewing sex from her window.
- Lamberto Bava's "Murder House," set in a musician's villa where multiple murders occur...
- Sergio Martino's "The Corners of the Night," tale of a young woman who moves into her deceased grandmother's house where nocturnal mayhem ensues...
- Young Italo helmer Nicola Rondolino will helmhelm "Brotherhood," in which three Romanian boys abducted by a child sex ring take revenge as ghosts.
To be perfectly honest, none of these are exactly making me jump up and down with joy. I had, perhaps naively, expected something in the giallo vein and certainly shot on film, rather than low-grade DV exploitation projects. Obviously, I'm not going to pass judgement until I've seen the finished product, but this sounds, to me, even less impressive than the American
Masters of Horror.
7 Comments:
So one of my guess was correct: Lamberto Bava is present. Luce is one of the most prestigious institutions of Italian cinema: they usually deal with historical archives and preservation of movies.
Their involment is confirmed here: http://www.luce.it/istitutoluce/news/news_mastersofhorror.htm
(Italian only, sorry)
By MCP, at 22:59
Bava (but not Mario)! Lenzi!
Well, I'm just thrilled, I can tell you. I mean, I just can't wait to see new material from the people who brought us Demons 2 and Nightmare City.
By Baron Scarpia, at 23:43
On my local newspaper there's an interview with one of the producers, Luciano Sovena from Luce Institute. Among other things, he says: "(..)tv always stops us: less violence, less violence. But we are passionate (of thriller movies), so we want to be free to make them hard, cruel, bloody and terrible, as we once used to do".
Well, at least the words sounds promising :)
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By eftimihn, at 10:20
Am i the only one who strongly believes that shooting digitally looks like crap most of the times. Just look at 28 Days Later, it's damn ugly. I want these wonderful colors of the 70s and 80s back. Just saw the trailer for Mr. Mann's "Miami Vice" in the theaters and couldn't believe what i saw, it looked to me like someone shot this with a 500$ digicam and keeping in mind how wonderful "Heat" looked it's a disgrace, really...
By eftimihn, at 10:22
You're not the only one eftimihn! I hate the plain look of digital film. It seems a boring look to me, with no real personality added.
By Anonymous, at 15:39
Martino movie shot on DV and no 2.35:1-Aspect Ratio - No thanks.
DV always looks soo amateurish and cheap, doesn't like it at all - doesn't have any class. At least Mann uses a mixture of DV and 35mm that is pretty effective but a whole movie shot on DV....
By Anonymous, at 16:51
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