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The practical FX horror film Last Day (aka The Best of Me) has released its first images filled with demons and a dick that as a mouth and teeth. Yes, you read that right. Albania’s first horror film, from Domiziano Cristopharo, was inspired by the true story of Ricardo López, the man who stalked musician Bjork. Lopez’s obsession with the Icelandic singer spanned several years. He became enraged when she began to see musician Goldie. Following months of strange video diary entries, Lopez sent Bjork a package filled with sulfuric acid in hopes of killing her or at least maiming her. He quickly committed suicide and when police found his body and video diary they were able to intercept the package before it reached the singer. Jacopo Tomassini, Elisa Carrera Fumagalli, and Bjordi Mezini star.
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Red Krokodil tells the tale of a man hopelessly addicted to a drug that causes him to fall into physical decay in a tiny apartment located within a post-apocalyptic city. His mental state begins to fall to hell in a hand basket as well as he begins to have strange hallucinations of a rabbit headed interloper…then the nightmares become worse, and so does reality! What’s good about Red Krokodil? Well for starters, the effects utilized to show our protagonist’s rotting away are really well done. There’s plenty of weeping sores, gaping holes, and bodily fluids to keep the gore hounds well fed. The fantasy elements presented featuring rabbit masks, strange openings within the apartment, peering disembodied eyes et. al. were really well done as well, and made the piece more of a fever dream than just the drug induced nightmare it could have been…in other words, this ain’t just a body horror flick creeps (and the allegories to war both
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Writer-director Domiziano Cristopharo’s Italian horror film Virus: Extreme Contamination premiered yesterday in Pristina, Kosovo and will begin its film festival tour this June, Bloody-Disgusting has reported. In Extreme Contamination “An Italian scientist moves to Kosovo to study the impact of a meteorite that is the cause of some strange events. Once there, he discovers that the object has been moved in a near military base where all the people were turned into dangerous weird creatures.” The Film, filled with grotesque mutations, mutations and mayhem, was inspired by the 1927 short story The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft. Paola Barale, Rimi Beqiri, Halil Budakova, Merita Budakova, Faik Gashi, Cun Lajci, Hansan Lushi, Michael Segal, Hoti Shkumbin star, with Filmon Aggujaro, Halil Budakova and Spaqi Vilson producing. Follow Virus: Extreme Contamination on Facebook and visit the official website for updates and more information.
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The practical FX horror film Last Day (aka The Best of Me) has released its first images filled with demons and a dick that as a mouth and teeth. Yes, you read that right. Albania’s first horror film, from Domiziano Cristopharo, was inspired by the true story of Ricardo López, the man who stalked musician Bjork. Lopez’s obsession with the Icelandic singer spanned several years. He became enraged when she began to see musician Goldie. Following months of strange video diary entries, Lopez sent Bjork a package filled with sulfuric acid in hopes of killing her or at least maiming her. He quickly committed suicide and when police found his body and video diary they were able to intercept the package before it reached the singer. Jacopo Tomassini, Elisa Carrera Fumagalli, and Bjordi Mezini star.
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Red Krokodil tells the tale of a man hopelessly addicted to a drug that causes him to fall into physical decay in a tiny apartment located within a post-apocalyptic city. His mental state begins to fall to hell in a hand basket as well as he begins to have strange hallucinations of a rabbit headed interloper…then the nightmares become worse, and so does reality! What’s good about Red Krokodil? Well for starters, the effects utilized to show our protagonist’s rotting away are really well done. There’s plenty of weeping sores, gaping holes, and bodily fluids to keep the gore hounds well fed. The fantasy elements presented featuring rabbit masks, strange openings within the apartment, peering disembodied eyes et. al. were really well done as well, and made the piece more of a fever dream than just the drug induced nightmare it could have been…in other words, this ain’t just a body horror flick creeps (and the allegories to war both
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Writer-director Domiziano Cristopharo’s Italian horror film Virus: Extreme Contamination premiered yesterday in Pristina, Kosovo and will begin its film festival tour this June, Bloody-Disgusting has reported. In Extreme Contamination “An Italian scientist moves to Kosovo to study the impact of a meteorite that is the cause of some strange events. Once there, he discovers that the object has been moved in a near military base where all the people were turned into dangerous weird creatures.” The Film, filled with grotesque mutations, mutations and mayhem, was inspired by the 1927 short story The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft. Paola Barale, Rimi Beqiri, Halil Budakova, Merita Budakova, Faik Gashi, Cun Lajci, Hansan Lushi, Michael Segal, Hoti Shkumbin star, with Filmon Aggujaro, Halil Budakova and Spaqi Vilson producing. Follow Virus: Extreme Contamination on Facebook and visit the official website for updates and more information.
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