Michele Soavi
notum enim: Directing
dies natalis: 1957-07-03
Locus Natus: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Et ut:
StageFright
While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
release : 1987.02.08popularis : 12.68
Cemetery Man
Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.
release : 1994.03.25popularis : 14.376
The New York Ripper
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing...
release : 1982.03.04popularis : 9.532
City of the Living Dead
A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church...
release : 1980.08.11popularis : 9.975
Little Lips
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his...
release : 1978.02.08popularis : 16.057
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.839
The Church
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of...
release : 1989.03.10popularis : 14.664
Endgame
A telepathic mutant recruits a post World War III TV game show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.
release : 1983.11.05popularis : 5.533
Phenomena
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability...
release : 1985.01.25popularis : 16.776
Raiders of Atlantis
A team of scientists working to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine on an ocean platform off the coast of Miami, Florida, unearth an ancient...
release : 1983.11.25popularis : 4.555
Demons
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one,...
release : 1985.10.04popularis : 15.116
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom...
release : 2008.03.06popularis : 1.85
Alien 2: On Earth
A group of cave explorers are confronted in an underground cavern by a mysterious living rock. Little do they know that it bears home to deadly,...
release : 1980.04.11popularis : 7.15
The Black Cat
When a horror film based on the same source material as Suspiria and Inferno goes into production, the evil witch the story is based upon manifests...
release : 1989.04.09popularis : 6.266
The Sect
A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely schoolteacher almost runs over an elderly man and...
release : 1991.03.01popularis : 14.104
Day of the Cobra
An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and...
release : 1980.08.12popularis : 2.746
A Blade in the Dark
Bruno, an up and coming film composer, has been hired to write the score to a new horror movie. After moving into a secluded villa, life begins to...
release : 1983.08.06popularis : 7.558
The Mask of Satan
In this loose remake of Black Sunday (1960), a group of skiers in Northern Italy land in a huge crevasse where they find the body of a long dead girl...
release : 1989.01.02popularis : 7.324
Blastfighter
Former cop Jake 'Tiger' Sharp returns to his old hometown after having been in prison for the murder of his wife's killer. Illegal hunting seems to...
release : 1984.07.14popularis : 4.865
Dario Argento: Panico
This documentary about the great master of European horror and fantastic films offers an immersive exploration into the life and legacy of the...
release : 2023.08.30popularis : 3.453
Caligula: The Untold Story
An insane young emperor finds his love of brutality and degradation surpassed only by his hunger for enslaved virgins, cruel vengeance, extreme acts...
release : 1982.02.02popularis : 11.648
Men or Not Men
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L.,...
release : 1980.09.08popularis : 1.089
Hanging Shadows
Offers a critical appreciation of Italian horror cinema, pioneered by directors such as Dario Argento and Mario Bava, a genre that influenced...
release : 2007.09.14popularis : 0.89
Il mistero della cattedrale
A retrospective look at the making of Michele Soavi's "The Church" including interviews with cast and crew.
release : 2017.10.02popularis : 0.881
Dream Time
Spaghetti westerns, giallo, mondo... are the legacy of a golden age in Italian genre filmmaking, which began in the sixties and came to an end in the...
release : 2023.10.05popularis : 0.539
The World of Dario Argento 2: Master of Horror
A documentary about the films of Italian horror director Dario Argento. Included are clips from many of his films and interviews with friends, actors...
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 3.231
Death Is Beautiful: Michele Soavi Directs Dellamorte Dellamore
A brief overview of the inspiration and process behind making Cemetery Man.
release : 2006.03.06popularis : 0.881
FantastiCozzi
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
release : 2016.05.21popularis : 2.386
Milan – Palermo: The Return
Turi Leofonte is released from prison after eleven years and asks for the surviving members of his old security detail to escort him back in Sicily...
release : 2007.11.23popularis : 4.461
Omega Rising: Remembering Joe D'Amato
Delves into the career of the notorious Italian filmmaker, Aristide Massaccesi aka Joe D'Amato, the infamous director behind the legendary Video...
release : 2017.02.13popularis : 1.474
The Biggest Battle
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
release : 1978.02.07popularis : 3.111
The School Teacher
A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs...
release : 1975.07.11popularis : 13.442
Fulci for Fake
«Fulci for Fake» is the first biopic on Lucio Fulci. Lucio Fulci is an enigma. The mystery that surrounds Fulci is linked in part to his...
release : 2019.09.03popularis : 1.093
Absurd
A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the...
release : 1981.10.01popularis : 6.017
Opera
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
release : 1987.12.19popularis : 10.722
Tenebre
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
release : 1982.10.28popularis : 15.493
Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
Who was Joe D'Amato aka. Aristide Massaccesi? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism in France, the king of porn in Italy. A man with a...
release : 2021.09.05popularis : 4.132