A Grisly Month of June Thanks to TetroVideo!
This June sees a grisly selection of releases from Severed Cinema darlings, TetroVideo. First of all, we have Domiziano Cristopharo’s Nightmare Symphony, which I reviewed about a year ago (see review here) so this has been a lengthy anticipation.
Nightmare Symphony is a giallo horror film co-directed by Domiziano and Daniele Trani (DOP in “Across the River”). Produced by Ulkurzu and HH Kosova and written by the well-known Italian screenwriter Antonio Tentori (Nightmare Concert, Dracula 3D), Nightmare Symphony is a tribute to Lucio Fulci’s Nightmare Concert a.k.a. A Cat in the Brain, in which Fulci himself played a tortured horror filmmaker haunted by his own bloody horror film visions.
In Nightmare Symphony, the filmmaker at the center of the story is played by Lady in White director Frank Laloggia: he is a horror director who is struggling to complete his movie, while a series of gruesome murders happen all around him. Eventually he will be forced to face his worst and scariest nightmares….
The disc will include commentaries interviews with Antonella Salvucci, Antonio Tentori and Daniele Trani, a photo gallery, behind the scenes, plus more. The practical effects are by Jacopo Tomassini (The Obsessed) The soundtrack is by Antony Coia (House of Flesh Mannequins, ILL: Final Contagium) and includes the original main theme by the legendary Italian composer Fabio Frizzi (City of the Living Dead, The Beyond).
Then we have The Bad Man, written and directed by Scott Schirmer (Harvest Lake, Plank Face), The Bad Man is a disturbing tale starring Jason Crowe, Ellie Church, Arthur Cullipher, and Dave Parker. The film follows young couple Mary (Ellie Church) and PJ (Jason Crowe) who are continuously drugged, humiliated and abused by a sadistic clown bent on transforming them into a “doll” and a “dog”, submissive sex slaves to be sold to the highest bidders.
Synopsis: PJ and Mary take over an isolated Bed&Breakfast that was previously owned by her departed grandmother. Not long after arriving there, a stranger (Arthur Cullipher) knocks on the door seeking accommodations but instead of explaining that the B&B is closed, they allow him because he is very charming. Things take a bizarre turn when they discover that their house guest now donning clown paint (Cullipher) is a flesh peddler that kidnaps people and breaks them into being obedient slaves each with a different task and service.
Where would we be in life without a Marian Dora (read Severed Cinema interview with Marian Dora here) release? This time it’s the atrocious Debris Documentar which was originally made in 2003. The film, released on DVD only in 2014 as part of a boxset also containing Melancholie der Engel and Voyage To Agatis, deals with the everyday life of a man, Carsten (Carsten Frank), who works on the set of the 2004 Ulli Lommel film Zombie Nation and who is planning to realize his own film: a task he finds extremely difficult.
Everything seems normal but in reality, he is a frustrated and perverted man who indulges in several disturbing sexual fetishes including unspeakable acts in his private life. His perversion will push him to take his horrible fantasies out of his home to the outside world.
In Debris Documentar, Carsten Frank also stays in contact with the Spanish filmmaker Jesús Franco (Vampiros Lesbos), the German actress Katja Bienert (El tesoro de la diosa blanca), the Italian actor Peter Martell (Death Walks at Midnight) and the American actor David Hess (The Last House on the Left). This will be accompanied by short films.
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