La casa sfuggita (2003)

Country of Origin: Italy
Year of Production: 2002
Running Times:
Format: colour/black and white
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Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: ArabesqueFilm/Studio Interzona
Producer: Valerio Zuccon

SCRIPT
Script: Enrico Saletti, Ivan Zuccon
Short Stories: The Shunned House; The Music of Erich Zann; and Dreams in the Witch House by H.P. Lovecraft

DIRECTION
Director: Ivan Zuccon
1st Assistant Director: Roberta Romagnoli

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ivan Zuccon
Camera Operator: Andrea Marchi
Assistants: Fabio Barbieri, Andrea Pollini
Technical Equipment: Studio Cinema, Cesare Bastelli

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Ivan Zuccon

MUSIC
Music: Acid Vacuum; Nicolò Paganini (24 Capricci op.1); Franz Liszt (Grey Clouds)
Music Performed By: Claudio Rodolfi (24 Capricci op.1); Giovanni Del Grappa (Grey Clouds)
Violinists: Florinda Ravagnani, Adriano Dragotta, Nicola Callegari

SOUND
Sound Recordists: Fabrizio Vitali, Suono Immagine

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Massimo Storari
Costumes: Donatella Ravagnini

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Massimo Storari

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Wire and Wall Studio
Digital Compositing: Massimo Storari, Wire and Wall Studio
Main Title Designers: Studio Interzona

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Roberta Romagnoli

OTHER CREW
Dialogue Coach: Ana Lucia Younghusband

CAST
Giuseppe Lorusso (Alex)
Federica Quaglieri (Rita)
Emanuele Cerman (Luigi Montella)
Silvia Ferreri (Nora/Estelle Roulet)
Michael Segal (Marco Del Vespro)
Cristina Varraro (Carlotta Zann)
Nicolò Viganelli (the young Alex)
Nicoletta Verri (innkeeper)
Claudio Viganelli (Mr Viganelli)
Roberta Marrelli (Annabel)
Cinzia Vaccari (French girl)
Stefania Andreotti (Rosa)
Enrico Saletti (lodger)
Micaela Antolini (killer girl)
Roberta Romagnoli (girl)
Eleonora Gaiba (girl with the razor)
Fabio Barbieri (hanged man)
Valeria Zuccon, Andrea Barioni, Francesco Malaspina (lodgers)
Naria Vittoria MiBuoso, Erika Simioli, Donatella Ravagnani, Roberta Malaspina, Annarita Prearo (black ladies)

PLOT SUMMARY

Alex, a young journalist, plans to write a book about an old house where a number of murders have taken place over the years. Against the wishes of his girlfriend Rita, Alex moves into the house and three of its terrible secrets are revealed.

UK
DVD Distributor: Salvation (FMDV 1129)
extras include original trailer, international trailer, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes stills, stills gallery, essays on H.P. Lovecraft and Italian horror, Salvation trailers and preview trailers. Plus Triple Silence bonus feature, The Nuns White Slave music promo video directed by Jake West and the short film Blood, directed by Philip Ilson

UK
Rating: 18

2003
August
Day Unknown: UK - shown at the 14th Festival of Fantastic Films

The Shunned House

anthologies, journalists, old dark houses, other dimensions, short stories into film

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009