House of Horror (Archive)

Tag: Dardano Sacchetti

  • Demons 3: The Ogre

    Demons 3: The Ogre
    Tagline: What happens when the nightmares of your childhood suddenly become reality?
    Released: 1991
    Starring Virginia Bryant, David Flosi, Patrizio Vinci
    Directed by Lamberto Bava
    Written by Lamberto Bava, Dardano Sacchetti

    Format: DVD
    Distributed by Shriek Show
    Released: August 19, 2003

    Features:
    Trailer
    Interview with Lamberto Bava

    Premise: Cheryl, a best-selling author of horror novels, goes on vacation with her family to an ancient villa in the Italian countryside. Legend has it the villa is said to be cursed, and very soon, Cheryl realizes that the hideous ogre that haunted her dreams as a child is alive and living in the basement of this very house. She becomes obsessed with his presence but fails to convince anyone else that he exists. It’s not until the ogre kills the babysitter and kidnaps Cheryl’s child that it becomes apparent that the stories she writes are becoming reality.

    Plot Breakdown (spoilers): Ever since she was a child, Cheryl has had frequent nightmares of a fiendish ogre dwelling in the basement of a stately European castle. Years after the nightmares, Cheryl has now become a world famous horror author, and lives in Italy with her husband Tom and son Bobby. While on vacation in the Italian countryside, Cheryl and her family take up residence in an old Italian villa… that seems to look all too familiar to Cheryl. Now the nightmares of her childhood are coming true, as the monster in the basement of the villa begins to make its presence known. Cheryl must now find a way to stop the beast before it can harm her family.
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  • Demons

    Demons
    Tagline: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.
    Released: 1985
    Starring Urbando Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, and Fiore Argento
    Directed by Lamberto Bava
    Written by Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Franco Ferrini, and Dardano Sacchetti

    Format: DVD
    Distributed by Anchor Bay
    DVD Release Date: September 25, 2007

    Features:
    Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
    Dolby Surround 5.1, Dolby Surround 2.0
    Audio Commentary with Director Lamberto Bava, Mechanical and Transformation artist Sergio Stivaletti, and journalist Loris Curci
    Behind the Scenes Footage
    Trailers

    Premise: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs! In 1985, Italian horror masters Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava unleashed this landmark splatter shocker about a group of strangers invited to a sneak preview at a mysterious movie theater, only to be trapped inside and transformed one-by-one into carnage-crazed monsters. It’s a one-of-a-kind combination of creepy terror and relentless gore-orgy, featuring a pounding soundtrack of ‘80s metal, a throbbing score by Claudio Simonetti (SUSPIRIA), and gut-churning special effects by Sergio Stivaletti (CEMETARY MAN, PHENOMENA). This is DEMONS as you’ve never seen it before, with every blood-drenched frame now fully remastered for the ultimate in ooze-spewing, flesh-flaying, spine-ripping madness!

    Plot Breakdown: When Cheryl and her friend Kathy arrive in a subway station, they come across a mysterious man in a metal mask handing out flyers advertising the opening of a new theater. The two friends decide to visit the theater, where they sit down to a horror film along with a small group of other moviegoers. Meanwhile, a prostitute who cut herself on a metal mask hanging in the lobby goes to the bathroom to inspect her wound. Her cut festers and mutates, turning her into a ravenous demon that is able to transform others into demons with just a scratch. The demon plague spreads rapidly, forcing the desperate moviegoers to fight for their lives against a legion of hell-spawned beasts. With the help of two young men, George and Ken, Cheryl and Kathy must find a way to escape the madness before they too become hideous demons.
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