Tulpa (film)
| Tulpa | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Federico Zampaglione |
| Produced by | Maria Grazia Cucinotta |
| Written by |
Federico Zampaglione Giacomo Gensini Dardano Sacchetti |
| Starring |
Claudia Gerini Michela Cescon Nuot Arquint Michele Placido Enio Tozzi Ivan Franek |
| Music by |
Francesco Zampaglione Andrea Moscianese The Alvarius |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Maio |
| Edited by | Marco Spoletini |
Production company |
Italian Dreams Factory |
| Distributed by | Bolero Film (Italy) |
Release date | June 20, 2013 (Italy) |
Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | English |
Tulpa is a 2012 Italian giallo-horror film directed by Federico Zampaglione. It premiered at the 2012 London FrightFest Film Festival[1] and was released in Italy on June 20, 2013.
Plot
Lisa Boeri (Claudia Gerini) is a business woman 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 his double life to the police, she will face a terrible escalation of death, mystery and eroticism.
Cast
- Claudia Gerini: Lisa Boeri
- Michela Cescon: Giovanna
- Nuot Arquint: Kiran
- Michele Placido: Roccaforte
- Ennio Tozzi: Ferri
- Ivan Franek: Stefan
- Crisula Stafida: 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".[2] 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".[3]
References
- ↑ Emanuel Richelmy (17 July 2012). "L’horror italiano arriva al Frightfest di Londra con Tulpa". Squer. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ↑ Serafino Murri (18 June 2013). "Tulpa il nuovo horror di Federico Zampaglione". La Repubblica. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ↑ Natalino Bruzzone (18 June 2013). "Sesso e sangue made in Italy". Il Secolo XIX. Retrieved 22 June 2013.