Movies: Claudio Simonetti

Symphony in Blood Red is an Italian 'giallo', a horror film inspired by the work of Dario Argento. It is the first feature movie directed by Luigi Pastore, and in collaboration with Antonio Tentori (Cat In The Brain), who co-wrote the screenplay....

This documentary is featured on the Limited Edition DVD for Opera, released in 2001....

Stefano is a contemporary "ronin", a man adrift with the soul of a samurai and the conviction that to achieve peace it is necessary to wage war....

Giorgio, Walter and Dario's dream is to own a boat. Meanwhile, they overcome boredom by inventing an endless series of jokes. Between the three and the rich boys in the area led by Fernando there is a strong rivalry that will become more acute with t...

Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brin...

Two middle-aged friends, a surgeon and an undertaker, enthusiastically share a passion: women. When a beautiful stripper reach the village, their lives get upside down....

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 eighties, but not without leaving behind a few final masterpieces. This film explores, a few decades...

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Feature-length documentary including interviews with co-writer/producer/director Dario Argento, and many of the cast and crew members....

Documentary on the films of Dario Argento from his debut "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" up until "The Phantom of the Opera"....

Documentary about the making of the European version of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead"....

Centers on tourists trapped inside a New Orleans movie theater, where ravenous soul-sucking ghouls descend upon them for a night of pure, unadulterated horror....

Set in the late 70s, this gritty and twisted film taps the physical and mental underpinnings of the meaning of the word "brother" in a way reminiscent of the best of late 70s grindhouse and early 80s slashers....