Tulpa
Theatrical release poster
ItalianTulpa – Perdizioni mortali
Directed byFederico Zampaglione
Screenplay by
  • Giacomo Gensini
  • Federico Zampaglione
Story byDardano Sacchetti
Produced byMaria Grazia Cucinotta
Starring
CinematographyGiuseppe Maio
Edited byMarco Spoletini
Music by
  • Francesco Zampaglione
  • Andrea Moscianese
Production
company
Italian Dreams Factory
Distributed byBolero Film
Release dates
  • 25 August 2012 (2012-08-25) (FrightFest)
  • 20 June 2013 (2013-06-20) (Italy)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageEnglish

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.

Plot

Lisa 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

Reception

The 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

  1. ↑ Richelmy, Emanuel (17 July 2012). "L'horror italiano arriva al Frightfest di Londra con Tulpa". Squer (in Italian). Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Murri, Serafino (18 June 2013). "Tulpa il nuovo horror di Federico Zampaglione". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Bruzzone, Natalino (18 June 2013). "Sesso e sangue made in Italy". Il Secolo XIX (in Italian). Retrieved 22 June 2013.
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