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Presepe Vivente (Living Nativity)

A neo pagan couple is terrorized by a divine presence after
Agave, our heroin, accidentally spills some blood on the figurines while building a nativity scene.

  • Lorenzo Fassina
    Director
    Abominio, Creepy Tales of Pizza and Gore, Sigillum, Macaroni Maniac
  • Luigi Schiavoni
    Director of photography
  • Marco Giangiarelli
    Producer
    Abominio, Creepy Tales of Pizza and Gore
  • Alice Pintus
    Key Cast
    "Agave"
  • Marco Battaglia
    Key Cast
  • Lorenzo Fassina
    Writer
    Abominio, Creepy Tales of Pizza and Gore, Sigillum, Macaroni Maniac
  • Veronica Guagni
    Special Make up Artist
  • Massimiliano Meregalli
    Animator
  • Francesco Tresca
    Composer
    Lion, Italian Horror Story, The Lake, Lady of the Damned Forest
  • Danilo D'Ercole
    Location Sound Recordist and Sound Editor
  • Nicolas Calamari
    Sound Editor and Mixing
  • Sara Antonicelli
    Assistant Director
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Presepe Vivente
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Horror, Exploitation, Fantasy, Satire
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes 53 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 20, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    3,500 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital UHD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Lorenzo Fassina

Born in Milan, Italy, in 1989.
In 2009 he founded DirtyTape, an independent studio producing horror trash movies inspired by 80's genre films and Italian classics.
He has written and directed two feature films (Anamnesi Mutante in 2011 and Creepy Tales of Pizza and Gore in 2014), five shorts, and two music videos for the thrash metal band Insanity Alert (Macaroni Maniac and Pact with Satan).
DirtyTape's motto is "Satana, Sangue e Skate" (Satan, Blood and Skate).

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Director Statement

This is a possession story with a simple but game-changing twist: the victims are cultists devoted to a pagan religion inspired by Lovecraft's mythos, and the evil forces against them are of catholic and christian nature.
Horror is used in a satirical way to dismantle clichés and tropes that saturate this genre, and to show how every religious belief can be seen as mythology and folklore.