Private Project

DOLL SYNDROME

If empty the man, only a shell of meat and blood, redundant, the spirit no longer present , is his dehumanised shell able to do terrible things? Due to exceptional use of music and the bizarre torture orgy this is a real underground hit, one that will still linger days in your body.

  • domiziano delvaux cristopharo
    Director
    P.O.E., House Of Flesh Mannequins, Bloody Sin
  • Andrea Cavaletto
    Writer
    Hidden In the Woods
  • Tiziano Cella
    Key Cast
    SHATTERED MEMORIES
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    drama, erotic, thriller
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 34 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2014
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • To-Horror
    Torino, Italy
    October 16, 2014
    official selection
  • Rome International Fetish festival
    Rome, Italy
    February 20, 2015
    Official Selection
  • BUTFF
    Breda, Netherlands
    September 4, 2014
    Official Selection
  • premio SERGIO AMIDEI
    Gorizia, Italy
    special event
Director Biography - domiziano delvaux cristopharo

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

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Director Statement

"Art is never chaste and we should keep her away from pure ignorants. It it were chaste, it wouldn't be art at all."