Claudio Simonetti

Spaghetti westerns, giallo, mondo... are the legacy of a golden age in Italian genre filmmaking, which began in the sixties and came to an end in the eighties, but not without leaving behind a few final masterpieces. This film explores, a few decades later, what became of those filmmakers and their films. A number of the most famous survivors of Italian horror movies will help to shed light on what happened.

A documentary that explores the history of heavy metal music, horror films, and how the two genres have merged together over time.

Orientado por seu médico (ou seria por vozes em sua cabeça?), um jovem diretor recebe uma missão: ir até o Texas para fazer um road movie abstrato sobre o Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, evento que reúne cinema e música extrema.

A young geologist, called by an architect, goes to a home where paranormal phenomena occur due to extreme thermal swings. One time Settled in the home, the researcher will find himself in a spiral of horror and delirium...

Jacopo, Duke, and Lenka wake up in the apartment Lenka shares with her roommate Elizabeth to find Elizabeth mysteriously murdered. None of the three has any memory of what happened and they spend a drug-fueled day finding clues and piecing the event together.

Rome is shattered by a series of gruesome murders that paint the Eternal City deep red. The suspicion grows that these atrocious crimes are connected with the return of one of the most heinous serial killers of our time - Karl the Butcher.

Em 1589, nas montanhas escarpadas da Ligúria, seis mulheres inocentes perdem a vida após terem sido acusadas de bruxaria. Na actualidade, porém, o mal continua presente na região.

Transilvânia, 1893. Jonathan Harker deixa sua vida na Inglaterra para visitar o afastado castelo do Conde Drácula. Ele foi chamado para catalogar a imensa biblioteca de Drácula, mas em pouco tempo se vê como um prisioneiro do castelo. O Conde se interessa pela vida de Harker, decide procurar sua noiva, Mina Murray, e acaba atacando a amiga desta, Lucy Westenra. Ao ver Lucy enferma, a família convoca o professor Abraham Van Helsing para determinar a causa da doença. Ele logo percebe que ela foi vítima de um vampiro e iniciará sua jornada para tentar pará-lo.

Sandra's twin sister was brutally murdered by a serial killer when they were children. Fifteen years later Sandra is now a professional journalist whose career is on the fritz. Sandra is given one last shot - an assignment which will prove the toughest of her life. She is sent back to the location of her sister's murder to shoot a behind-the-scenes expose for a hardcore porn flick. There she will be forced to confront the ghosts of her past as a new copycat killer has his sights set on Sandra.

Symphony in Blood Red is an Italian 'giallo', a horror film inspired by the work of Dario Argento. It is the first feature movie directed by Luigi Pastore, and in collaboration with Antonio Tentori (Cat In The Brain), who co-wrote the screenplay.

Set in the late 70s, this gritty and twisted film taps the physical and mental underpinnings of the meaning of the word "brother" in a way reminiscent of the best of late 70s grindhouse and early 80s slashers.

Em Roma, uma bruxa demoníaca, a Mãe das Lágrimas, é acidentalmente liberta. Bruxas de todo mundo vão prestar-lhe homenagem e a jovem Sarah deve usar seus poderes paranormais para impedir que o mundo seja dominado.

Meat Loaf Aday plays Jake Feldman, a furrier struggling to build a business while being tormented by his obsession for a stripper. When a sadistic backwoods trapper kills a strange group of pet raccoons, Jake knows their luxurious hides could make a coat that will change his fortunes forever. Only these are no ordinary pelts: the cursed furs will wreak vengeance on anyone who touches them.

In the first story two grave robbers, thieving from an ancient Etruscan burial ground, gets in trouble when one of them tries out a ring which passes a werewolf curse to him! The second one is about a woman who wants to look like her best friend and goes to a plastic surgeon, which is the biggest mistake she's done. The third story is about three friends and a very dangerous sea monster eating its way through their camping site! The wrap-around story is set on a train where John Phillip Law plays a mystical hypnotist who claims that he can see the past of the passengers...

Um filme do diretor e mestre do horror Dario Argento. Stefania Rocha interpreta Anna Mari, uma detetive da policia cujo aniversário é arruinado por um e-mail bizarro recebido por ela. No e-mail, há um desafio para jogar pôquer pela Internet... e se a detetive Mari perder, uma mulher inocente será assassinada em frete a sua câmera. Um atormentado serial killer desafia a policia a jogar esse jogo continuamente, e Mari se lança em uma frenética investigação para encontrar o maníaco. Enquanto isso, a policia precisa obter ajuda de um adolescente, que é um gênio no pôquer, para manter o assassino em desvantagem. Por quanto tempo conseguirão segurar o Jogador Misterioso, antes que a policia perca novamente e uma outra mulher seja assassinada?

Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre can desire, including the inspiration of the plot, the director, the cast, the style, the music and, of course, its worldwide success. Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Jessica Harper, Udo Kier, Stafania Casini, Giuseppe Colombo, Luciano Tovoli and several members of the progressive rock band Goblin (Claudio Simonetti, Fabio Pignatelli, Massino Marante) are interviewed to learn about their work in the film.

Documentary that explores Argento's film career.

Three sisters - voluptuous Vida, Maria (nicknamed "Sissy"), and Ludmilla - live together in a run-down apartment building in Budapest. The sisters all vie for the attentions of Yuri Petkov, a dubious middle-aged pimp who plays them off against each other. One evening, Ludmilla claims to have found Yuri's body stuffed into their washing machine, but when Inspector Stacev arrives to investigate the body has disappeared. The good-looking young inspector attempts to discover the truth but in doing so becomes drawn into the sisters' bizarre sex games...

Após a execução de um líder de gangue de motoqueiros condenado por assassinato, um motociclista de capacete faz uma matança durante as férias de primavera na Flórida.

A man discharged from the hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown is taken to a remote Italian villa by his strangely-behaving wife. But he has strong premonitions that the house is possessed by some force of witchcraft, which he has been experiencing in his recurring nightmare.

A handful of young geologists are unlucky enough to be forced to stay at a rundown hotel in the middle of nowhere. What they don't know is that the hotel has been abandoned for twenty years because the owner of the hotel had killed his family and all the guests two decades ago. Strange things begin to happen, and suddenly murders are committed...

A baboon escapes from a Florida campus lab and starts spreading something bad with a bite.

A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriously. An investigator determines to track down the cause.

A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

Mulher morre em camping remoto do Colorado, onde vivem um casal e seu filho Ben. Quinze anos depois, recém-saído do serviço militar, Ben volta para casa de carona com grupo de jovens em viagem de férias. O grupo se hospeda no camping. E começa o horror.

Nicola, a cop, spies on his wife Sarah buying sexy black panties and realises that she is having an affair. Following a violent confrontation, he leaves her. Immediately after, whilst taking a shower, Sarah is stabbed to death with an icepick. Believing it to be an simple crime of passion, the police assign Inspector Pierro Terzi to bring his former colleague in. But Professor Anna Berardi, a criminal pyschologist who is friends with both men, believes the Nicola is innocent. She suggests that the real killer is Franco Tribbo, a maniac known as "The Midnight Killer" who supposedly died in a hospital fire several years previously. Terzi is not conviced but Nicola is killed and the murders continue...

Berlim Ocidental, Hanna e Kathy, duas jovens, vão à uma sessão de cinema de terror. No entanto, uma misteriosa máscara contamina parte dos espectadores, tornando o filme real. Os zumbis, saídos do filme, começam a perseguir os contaminados em busca de carne humana, tornando a sessão um pesadelo.

A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.

No ano 2000, sobreviventes do Holocausto Nuclear tentam reconstruir a sociedade divididos em clãs, enquanto buscam um misterioso sinal de rádio - possível sinal de que ainda exista civilização em alguma parte do planeta. Mas eles são caçados e mortos pelos Templários, um grupo de fanáticos religiosos que quer exterminar a humanidade. Até que surge um guerreiro solitário chamado Scorpion, que resolve opor-se aos Templários e combater seu líder, o terrível One.

A young man, armed with a magical bow and arrows, embarks on a mystical journey through a mystical land to rid it of all evil and joins forces with an outlaw to take down an evil witch bent on claiming the magic bow for evil.

O escritor Peter Neal chega à cidade de Roma para promover seu último livro, Tenebre, mas descobre que alguém está usando seus romances como inspiração para cometer assassinatos. Logo ele se vê envolvido nos crimes e passa a tentar descobrir o provável assassino.

Os mortos estão retornando a vida e atacando os vivos. Quatro sobreviventes do ataque escondem-se em um shopping abandonado e planejam contra-atacar. No entanto, milhares de mortos-vivos descobrem o esconderijo e iniciam um novo massacre, contaminando alguns sobreviventes que retornam como zumbis e somam-se ao exército de abomináveis criaturas.

Susan é uma jovem americana que viaja para a Europa para estudar numa prestigiada escola de Balé. Desde o primeiro dia, porém, ela começa a se assustar com estranhas situações que ocorrem no local que a fazem crer que há bruxas por todas a parte.

Centers on tourists trapped inside a New Orleans movie theater, where ravenous soul-sucking ghouls descend upon them for a night of pure, unadulterated horror.