Domiziano Cristopharo
Born: 1974-06-22 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
Filmography
2025
- Eros & ARThanatos ... (Director)
2024
- Flammentod ... (Director)
- eROTik 2: The Beyond ... (Screenplay)
- Phallacies
- GORE TAPES ... (Director)
2023
- Trypophobic Possession ... (Producer)
- 4 Halloween ... (Director)
- Justine ... (Producer)
- Symbolicus Vol. 3 ... (Director)
2022
- What Have You Done, Daniel? ... (Director)
- Echoes From The Grave ... (Director)
- Eldorado ... (Director)
2021
- La perdición ... (Director)
- Vore Gore ... (Director)
- Not for the Faint of Heart as Himself
- Confessions of a Necrophile Girl ... (Director)
- Jack the St. Ripper ... (Executive Producer)
- 61: Scorecard Killer ... (Director)
- Blue Sunset ... (Director of Photography)
2020
- XXX: Dark Web ... (Producer)
- 7 Sins ... (Director)
- The House Guest as Postman
- Tales to Tell in the Dark ... (Writer)
- Nightmare Symphony ... (Editor)
2019
- The Obsessed ... (Director of Photography)
- Beyond Horror: The History and Sub-Culture of Red Films as Self
- Ill: Final Contagium ... (Writer)
- Just a Child ... (Producer)
2018
- A Taste of Phobia ... (Director)
- Deep Web XXX ... (Director)
- Penny Pinchers 2: Scenes from the Underground as Interviewee
- eROTik ... (Director)
2017
- Torment ... (Producer)
- Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty ... (Director)
- American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice ... (Producer)
- POE 4: The Black Cat ... (Director)
- Xpiation ... (Director)
2016
- Il guardiano del ghiaccio ... (Special Effects Makeup Artist)
- House of the Tempest ... (Director)
- Scarecrowd: The Musk ... (Assistant Director)
- Dark Waves ... (Cinematography)
- Virus: Extreme Contamination ... (Director)
2015
- Poern ... (Director)
- The Transparent Woman ... (Director)
- Reveries of a Solitary Walker as Edgar Bacci
- E.N.D. - The Movie ... (Writer)
2014
- Doll Syndrome ... (Director)
- Red Krokodil ... (Director of Photography)
- Phantasmagoria ... (Director)
- H.P. Lovecraft: Two Left Arms ... (Idea)
- P.O.E. Pieces of Eldritch (P.O.E. 3) ... (Director)
2013
- Shock: My Abstraction Of Death ... (Director)
2012
- Hyde's Secret Nightmare
- P.O.E. : Project of Evil ... (Director)
2011
- Bloody Sin: Abonimations of the Third Reich ... (Writer)
- P.O.E. Poetry of Eerie ... (Director)
2010
- The Museum Of Wonders ... (Director)
2009
- House of Flesh Mannequins ... (Screenplay)