Tulpa (Italian: Tulpa – Perdizioni mortali) is a 2012 Italian giallo-horror film co-written and directed by Federico Zampaglione. It premiered at the 2012 London FrightFest Film Festival[1] and was released in Italy on 20 June 2013.
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| Italian | Tulpa – Perdizioni mortali |
| Directed by | Federico Zampaglione |
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| Story by | Dardano Sacchetti |
| Produced by | Maria Grazia Cucinotta |
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| Cinematography | Giuseppe Maio |
| Edited by | Marco Spoletini |
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Production company | Italian Dreams Factory |
| Distributed by | Bolero Film |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | English |
Plot
editLisa Boeri is a businesswoman 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 her double life to the police, she will face a terrible escalation of death, mystery and eroticism.
Cast
edit- Claudia Gerini as Lisa Boeri
- Michela Cescon as Giovanna
- Nuot Arquint as Kiran
- Michele Placido as Roccaforte
- Ennio Tozzi as Ferri
- Ivan Franek as Stefan
- Crisula Stafida as Giulia
Reception
editThe 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
edit- ^ Richelmy, Emanuel (17 July 2012). "L'horror italiano arriva al Frightfest di Londra con Tulpa". Squer (in Italian). Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ^ Murri, Serafino (18 June 2013). "Tulpa il nuovo horror di Federico Zampaglione". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ^ Bruzzone, Natalino (18 June 2013). "Sesso e sangue made in Italy". Il Secolo XIX (in Italian). Retrieved 22 June 2013.
