Domiziano Cristopharo
Directing
Biography
Domiziano Cristopharo, an independent film director from Rome, has been the first Italian director in years to try and revive the erotic/horror film genre. Four years ago he obtained enormous audience and critical acclaim with HOUSE OF FLESH MANNEQUINS (starring international horror actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice). HOUSE OF FLESH MANNEQUINS won six international awards and eight international film festival presentations. Domiziano Cristopharo has frequently been compared as a perfect mix between Fellini and Dario Argento: Cristopharo's aesthetic has a vintage quality: he is simultaneously extreme in style, shocking, and yet classic. To those who define him "pornographic," he responds by quoting Picasso: "Art is never chaste and we should keep her away from pure ignorants. It it were chaste, it wouldn't be art at all." In his career he worked also with/for: Carlo De Mejo (City of living Dead), Maria Rosaria Omaggio (Nightmare city), Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust), Frank Laloggia (Lady in white), Venantino Venantini (Ladyhawke), Giovanni Lombardo Radice/John Morghen (Cannibal Ferox), Mariagrazia Cucinotta (El dia de la bestia), Stefano Cassetti (Roberto Succo), Romano Scavolini (Nightmare in a damaged Brain) Director 2014 E.N.D. (episode REVENIENS) 2014 THE TRANSPARENT WOMAN 2014 P.O.E. 3 "Pieces Of Eldritch" 2014 DOLL SYNDROME 2013 PHANTASMAGORIA (episode "a snake with a steel tongue") 2012 LOVECRAFT'S 2 Left Arms 2012 Red Krokodil 2012 BELLEROFONTE 2012 P.O.E. 2 Project of Evil (episode "TARR&FETHER) 2011 SHOCK - My Abstraction of Death 2011 P.O.E. Poetry of Eerie (episode "Maelzel's Chess-Automaton") 2010 HYDE'S SECRET NIGHTMARE 2010 BLOODY SIN - Oltretomba 2009 The MUSEUM of WONDERS 2008 HOUSE of Flesh Mannequins
Known For

Why do people no longer see this type of stories nowadays? How can this notion be awakened? Which films should begin to feed back from the past and balance them with the current horror?
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide

11 international directors, 11 short stories and one protagonist: the PENIS. The penis as you have never seen it, feared it, conceived it, dreamed of it... in the first DICKSPLOITATION movie ever!
Phallacies

Made up of nine shorts, Vore Gore (2021) is an anthology that explores the links between sex and violence, consumption and capitalism all under the umbrella theme of voraphilia.
Vore Gore

XXX DARK WEB is the new controversial anthology movie directed by five of the most extreme international contemporary directors.
XXX: Dark Web

A team of researchers investigates a European castle that was used for sadistic tortures during the inquisition, as well as horrifying and abominable Nazi experiments on innocent people. Riddled with history, the demonically possessed castle overtakes the crew turning their nightmares into a terrifying reality.
Bloody Sin: Abonimations of the Third Reich

An erotic horror movie dedicated to Joe D Amato, Hyde's Secret Nightmare combines the two genres and mixes them in equal parts. Cross-cut erotic and horror scenes are kept together by a thread of dramatic force bordering on obsession, paranoia, phobia, perversion, and lack of self-acceptance. Everything unfolds in an extreme world where sex seems the only way to attain a state of well-being.
Hyde's Secret Nightmare

New horror anthology that explore the morbid side of the deep and dark web.
Deep Web XXX

Anna is a beautiful,fiercely independent blind woman. Due to financial problems her husband Carl has to sell the apartment they lived in. They move in an old house in a remote location surrounded by fields. Anna is not happy there and feels even more isolated as she is most of the time all alone… but eery noises and strange facts lead her to think that someone is in the house too... or "something".
The Transparent Woman

A young man suffering from significant childhood trauma believes there are portals to the darkness around him that can be accessed through extreme self-mutilation. He locks himself in his home and proceeds to perform acts to summon the Goddess Ishtar to help him cross over to the other side.
American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice

Carter, an art conservator, arrives in Italy to restore a fresco in an old church. He discovers that the strange locals are hiding something and a mystery relating to a nearby lake that legend says was created by a meteor.
H.P. Lovecraft: Two Left Arms

A loner artist with a history of abuse meets a beautiful woman who takes an interest in his life and work; leading to a chilling path of tragedy.
House of Flesh Mannequins

A diverse collection of horror shorts by several different film makers. A few are presented as trailers.
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty

For this anthology movie, producers Vestra Pictures assigned international directors with a phobia and set them to work making a horror short about it.
A Taste of Phobia

Project of Evil shifts toward a more experimental and visceral tone, with stories such as “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” re-imagined with a modern grindhouse sensibility.
P.O.E. : Project of Evil

An anthology film that features four segments. Contagium: The beginning of a global pandemic originated by the macabre experiment of a military scientist. Gully: The calvary of a young man who, as a result of his ambition, is the victim of a painful metamorphosis. The Body: The martyrdom suffered by a woman obsessed with beauty and who resorts to a home cosmetic surgery in order to save money. The Cabin: A post-apocalyptic era in which money becomes the only means that can allow the infected to stay alive.
Ill: Final Contagium

official prequel of American Guinea Pig 4: SACRIFICE directed by Poison Rouge "What have you done, Daniel?" will explain to the audience all the things remained unclear in the first film. Starring cult actress Lynn Lowry, Frank Laloggia and again Roberto Scorza
What Have You Done, Daniel?

A mentally disturbed ex soldier tries to start a new life and get a new job after a nightmarish experience during the war.
Doll Syndrome

7 Sins is divided into seven segments, each one unique in its voice, acting, story, and style. While the seven deadly sins are cemented in Catholic Theology and are always the same, the interpretation by any single person is always different, and this assemblage is no exception. This film uses the themes within its subtext and introduces, and then wildly perverts, the punishments associated with the 7 Deadly Sins. The overall atmosphere is one of uneasiness that, in addition to a fair amount of disturbing visuals, is amplified by its pulse-pounding soundtrack.
7 Sins

A loner madman necrophile, with also the passion of the ancient Egypt culture, start to mummifies the bodies of young victims to satisfy his desire for love and sex
eROTik

Based on the depraved and libertine eroticism of the Marquis de Sade's "Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue." A teenager who uses all social methods to preserve her virtue finds instead only incitement to vice.