Tulpa (film)

Tulpa
Tulpa
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	Federico Zampaglione
Written by	Federico Zampaglione; Giacomo Gensini; Dardano Sacchetti
Produced by	Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Starring	Claudia Gerini; Michela Cescon; Nuot Arquint; Michele Placido; Enio Tozzi; Ivan Franek
Cinematography	Giuseppe Maio
Edited by	Marco Spoletini
Music by	Francesco Zampaglione; Andrea Moscianese; The Alvarius
Production; company	Italian Dreams Factory
Distributed by	Bolero Film
Release date	June 20, 2013
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	English

Tulpa is a 2012 Italian giallo-horror film directed by Federico Zampaglione. It premiered at the 2012 London FrightFest Film Festival^[1] and was released in Italy on June 20, 2013.

Plot[]

Lisa Boeri is a business woman 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[]

Claudia Gerini: Lisa Boeri
Michela Cescon: Giovanna
: Kiran
Michele Placido: Roccaforte
: Ferri
Ivan Franek: Stefan
: Giulia

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[]

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

External links[]

Tulpa at IMDb

[1] Emanuel Richelmy (17 July 2012). "L'horror italiano arriva al Frightfest di Londra con Tulpa". Squer. Retrieved 22 June 2013.

[2] Serafino Murri (18 June 2013). "Tulpa il nuovo horror di Federico Zampaglione". La Repubblica. Retrieved 22 June 2013.

[3] Natalino Bruzzone (18 June 2013). "Sesso e sangue made in Italy". Il Secolo XIX. Retrieved 22 June 2013.

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