THE PYRAMID *** Italy 2013 Dirs: Luca Alessandro, Simone Chiesa, Alex Visani, Antonio Zannone, Roberto Albanesi. 90 mins Portmanteau or Anthology horror films seem to be the forte of the UK and the USA making The Pyramid (2013) somewhat of an oddity. The film also has the device of a…
Browsing: Alex Visani
BLADES IN THE DARKNESS *** Germany 2022 Dir: Alex Visani. 84 mins The longest dictatorship in Europe was the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania (1976 – 1992) but once it finally came to an end Albania was left broken socially and economically to become a democracy. In 1997, Tirana the…
Blades In The Darkness, the new action/horror movie directed by Alex Visani (Stomach, Born Dead), will be screened on the 17th of February at the European Film Market of Berlin. Produced by Aspide 1UG and J&K Media Partner, Blades In The Darkness is written by Alex Visani and Lorenzo Lepori. The movie has a…
SCREAMS FROM THE SWAMP (aka Grida Dalla Palude) *** Italy 2022 Dir: Lorenzo Lepori. 70 mins Italian horror has always been one of my favourite types of films to watch and although the so called glory (or gory) days of the 1970s and 1980s Italian horror boom is long behind…
Luna is a young embalmer with a strange passion for everything concerning death. One day, during a trip in the woods, she finds two bodies. The first one is a dead woman, the other one is a man who is still barely breathing. From this moment, Luna’s life will change…