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. Ten 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), Lynn Lowry (Shivers, The Crazies)
Director:
2023 4 HALLOWEEN
2022 ELDORADO
2021 LA PERDICION
2021 Tetromaniac: Confessions of a Necrophile girl
2020 BLUE SUNSET
2020 The House Guest
2020 Tetromaniac: 61: Scorecard Killer
2019 Nightmare Symphony
2018 Tetromaniac: eROTik
2018 The Obsessed
2018/22 What have you done, Daniel?
2017 XPIATION
2017 Mad Macbeth
2016 VIRUS: Extreme Contamination
2014 THE TRANSPARENT WOMAN
2014 DOLL SYNDROME
2012 H. P. LOVECRAFT'S 2 Left Arms
2012 Red Krokodil
2012 BELLEROFONTE
2011 HYDE'S SECRET NIGHTMARE
2010 BLOODY SIN - Oltretomba
2009 The MUSEUM of WONDERS
2008 HOUSE of Flesh Mannequins
ANTHOLOGIES:
2023 UNBURIED TALES
2023 SYMBOLICUS vol 3
2021 VORE/GORE
2021 SYMBOLICUS vol 2
2019 Tales to tell IN THE DARK
2019 Ill - Final Contagium (segment THE BODY)
2019 7 SINS (segment LUST)
2019 DARK WEB XXX (segment TechnoBarbie)
2018 DEEP WEB XXX (segment CRUISING)
2017 a taste of PHOBIA (segment MAGEIROCOPHOBIA)
2017 Grindsploitation 3 Video Nasty (segment "NO One Will Be Safe")
2015 POeRN (segment WILLIAM WILSON)
2014 PHANTASMAGORIA
2014 P.O.E. 3 "Pieces Of Eldritch"
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")