Domiziano 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
Acting
Movie
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
as Edgar Bacci
2015
Movie
Hyde's Secret Nightmare
2012
Movie
Phallacies
2024
Movie
The House Guest
as Postman
2020
Movie
Beyond Horror: The History and Sub-Culture of Red Films
as Self
2019
Movie
Not for the Faint of Heart
as Himself
2021
Movie
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
as Horror Film Expert
2025
Movie
Penny Pinchers 2: Scenes from the Underground
as Interviewee
2018
Movie
3
as Guy 1
2026
Crew
Movie
P.O.E. : Project of Evil
Director
2012
Movie
Ill: Final Contagium
Cinematography
2019
Movie
House of Flesh Mannequins
Screenplay
2009
Movie
Red Krokodil
Director of Photography
2014
Movie
Nightmare Symphony
Editor
2020
Movie
Hyde's Secret Nightmare
Story
2012
Movie
Torment
Producer
2017
Movie
American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice
Producer
2017
Movie
Dark Waves
Cinematography
2016
Movie
Phantasmagoria
Director
2014
Movie
A Taste of Phobia
Director
2018
Movie
The Obsessed
Producer
2019