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Deliria (1987)
Country of Origin: Italy
Year of Production: 1987
Running Times: 95 mins
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: Dolby Stereo
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Filmirage
Producer: Aristide Massaccesi (uncrediteded)
Production Manager: Tony Hood
SCRIPT
Script: Lew Cooper (real name: Luigi Montefiore)
Dialogue: Sheila Goldberg
DIRECTION
Director: Michael Soavi (real name: Michele Soavi)
1st Assistant Director: Clay Millicamp
PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Renato Tafuri, Aristide Massaccesi (uncredited)
Camera Operators: Hanry (sic) May, Jimmy Cohen
Assistant Camera Operator: Daniel Kalehoff
Grips: Brian Taitt, Mark Caruso, Sam Wiston, Albert Ellis, Jerry White,
Frank Cusumano, Peter Brockman, John Dunn, Raymond Holland
Electricians: Saul Barry, Jeff Herbert, Bob Siegel, Arthur Malone, Lawrence
Ross, Peter Schrag
Power: Silver Murray, Alfred Reed
Stills: Jeff Hest, Robert Vinci
Colour: Luciano Vittori
Negatives: Fuji Color
Labs: Luciano Vittori, Roma, Italy
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Kathleen Stratton
Assistant Editors: July D'Angelo, Henry Robinson
MUSIC
Music: Simon Boswell
Music for Dance Sequence: Stefano Mainetti, Guido Anelli
Dance Music Performed By: Glasswork
Music Published By: Vincent Messina (Sun Fun Limited) for Idra Music
SOUND
Sound: International Recording, Hubrecht Nijhuis, David Lee Dolby
Post Synch Director: John Gayford
Sound Effects: Studio Sound
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Peter Moor, Grace Ginsberg
Hair: Sidney Le Roy, Paula White
Wardrobe: Kuo Ami
Theatrical Costumes: Valentine Berger
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Dan Maklansky, Robert Gould, Roland Park, Alan Sloane
Opticals / Titles: Moviecam 2000
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Design Assistant: Rubina Rockett (real name: Rubina Michettoni)
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Vivy Levitt
Paymaster: Charles Wallach
Production Assistants: Mary Noolite, John Therrien
Transport: STARC Transport
STUNTS
Stunts: John Ukmar
CAST
David Brandon (Peter)
Barbara Cupisti (Alicia)
Don Fiore (real name: Domenico Fiore) (Police Chief)
Robert Gligorov (Danny)
Mickey Knox (old cop)
John Morghen (real name: Giovanni Lombardo Radice) (Brett)
Clain Parker (Irving Wallace)
Lori Parrel (real name: Loredana Parrella) (Corrine)
Martin Phillips (Mark)
James E.R. Sampson (Willy)
Ulrike Schwerk (Betty)
Mary Sellers (Laurel)
Jo Anne Smith (Sybil)
Piero Vida (Ferrari)
Richard Berkeley (Dr Porter)
Sheila Goldberg (nurse)
Michele Soavi (policeman - uncredited)
Dancers: Dany Gordon, Claude Jurman, Mark Parkinson,
Helen Porter, Dominique Portier, Rackel Roskoff, Frank Seneca, Simone
Sardon, Albert Schultz, Sandy Schultz
SUMMARY
A theatrical troupe are rehearsing their latest
production, a bizarre giallo musical, when one of them is murdered.
They hear that a psychopathic mass murderer, Irving Wallace, has escaped
from a nearby psychiatric hospital. Before long, the survivors have
been locked into the theatre, the key is missing and Wallace is in there
with them...
CAPSULE REVIEW
Former actor and Dario
Argento assistant Michele Soavi makes his feature debut with this
stylish and brutal little gem. He's clearly learned well from his time
working with Argento
as he employs many of the same visual tricks to spice up a script that
echoes Pete Walker's
The Flesh
and Blood Show (1972). At a time when Italian horror was
stagnating under the weight of too many cut-rate gialli and uninspired
zombie retreads, Deliria was a welcome reminder that
the industry could still produce uncompromising and appealing work alongside
all the dross. (Full
Review)
AVAILABILITY
UK
Video Distributor: Redemption
USA
Video Distributor: Luminous Film & Video Works
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: R
France
Rating: -12
UK
Rating: 18
West Germany
Rating: 18
TIMELINE
1987
March
11: France - theatrical release
July
27: Italy - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
The theatre of death
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Bloody Bird - French title
Sound Stage Massacre
Stage Fright
Stagefright
Stagefright - Aquarius
LINKS
SEE ALSO
The Flesh and Blood Show (1972)
Halloween (1978)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
European Trash Cinema vol.2 no.11 (1995)
pp.21-22 (USA)
illustrated review
Fangoria no.212 May 2002 p.55 (USA)
DVD review
Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade vol.13
no.8/9 (August / September 1987) p.8 (Italy)
credits, synopsis
Mad Movies 45 p.44 (France)
review
Samhain 55 pp.28-29 (UK)
review
Starburst no.106 (June 1987) pp.11-13 (UK)
illustrated credits, review
Whiplash Smile 1 p.6 (UK)
review
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991 - 1992 p.97
credits, review
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
actors, axe murders, dancers, insanity, police,
psychiatric hospitals, serial killers, theatres
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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