Domiziano Cristopharo
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
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (50)
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
as Horror Film Expert
2025
Eros & ARThanatos
Director (Directing)
2025
GORE TAPES
Director (Directing)
2024
Phallacies
2024
Flammentod
Director (Directing)
2024
eROTik 2: The Beyond
Screenplay (Writing)
2024
4 Halloween
Director (Directing)
2023
Justine
Producer (Production)
2023
Trypophobic Possession
Producer (Production)
2023
Echoes From The Grave
Director (Directing)
2022
Eldorado
Director (Directing)
2022
What Have You Done, Daniel?
Director (Directing)
2022
Confessions of a Necrophile Girl
Director (Directing)
2021
61: Scorecard Killer
Director (Directing)
2021
Jack the St. Ripper
Executive Producer (Production)
2021
La perdición
Director (Directing)
2021
Not for the Faint of Heart
as Himself
2021
Vore Gore
Director (Directing)
2021
Blue Sunset
Director of Photography (Camera)
2021
Nightmare Symphony
Editor (Editing)
2020
7 Sins
Director (Directing)
2020
XXX: Dark Web
Producer (Production)
2020
The House Guest
as Postman
2020
Tales to Tell in the Dark
Writer (Writing)
2020
Beyond Horror: The History and Sub-Culture of Red Films
as Himself
2019
The Obsessed
Director of Photography (Camera)
2019
Ill: Final Contagium
Writer (Writing)
2019
Just a Child
Producer (Production)
2019
Penny Pinchers 2: Scenes from the Underground
as Interviewee
2018
eROTik
Director (Directing)
2018
A Taste of Phobia
Director (Directing)
2018
Deep Web XXX
Director (Directing)
2018
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
Director (Directing)
2017
POE 4: The Black Cat
Director (Directing)
2017
Xpiation
Director (Directing)
2017
Torment
Producer (Production)
2017
American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice
Producer (Production)
2017
Dark Waves
Cinematography (Crew)
2016
House of the Tempest
Director (Directing)
2016
Virus: Extreme Contamination
Director (Directing)
2016
Scarecrowd: The Musk
Assistant Director (Directing)
2016
Il guardiano del ghiaccio
Special Effects Makeup Artist (Costume & Make-Up)
2016
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
as Edgar Bacci
2015
E.N.D. - The Movie
Writer (Writing)
2015
The Transparent Woman
Director (Directing)
2015
Poern
Director (Directing)
2015
Phantasmagoria
Director (Directing)
2014
P.O.E. Pieces of Eldritch (P.O.E. 3)
Director (Directing)
2014
Doll Syndrome
Director (Directing)
2014
Red Krokodil
Director of Photography (Camera)
2014