Title: Raffaele Picchio's MORITURIS
Description: Italian gladiator horror
Sheldon Warnock - February 5, 2011 01:58 AM (GMT)
Distribution rights for Raffaele Picchio's Italian gladiator horror movie
Morituris are to be offered for sale by Fingerchop Movie Production s.r.l. at this year's
European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin, Germany; the movie is scheduled to be screened at Parliament Studio on February 13th at 1:30 p.m. (13:30).
A set of ten large (1000 x 500) stills from
Morituris has been added to
GOMORRAHY.com. There are two teaser trailers for the movie on the official website and MySpace official page for it.
Morituris features special make-up effects by
Sergio Stivaletti.
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GOMORRAHY.com: Trailer Park subsite (an "NSFW ghetto", and unabashedly so!)
Sheldon Warnock - February 27, 2011 10:23 PM (GMT)
There are several new posters for - as well as a review in Italian of -
Morituris on the website of
Indie.Horror.it.
Indie.Horror.it: Morituris Italian-language review (w/ new posters -
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Sheldon Warnock - May 1, 2011 10:18 PM (GMT)
A promo video for
Morituris has been added to YouTube. Also, the official website for the movie is now functional.
According to the official website for
Morituris, the movie stars Valentina D'Andrea, Désirée Giorgetti, Andrea De Bruyn, Giuseppe Nitti, Simone Ripanti, and Francesco Malcom Trulli.
Here's a synopsis for
Morituris from the official website for the movie: "Rome, in 73 B.C.. Spartacus led the rebellion of 200 gladiators which saw them opposed to the inhumanity which Rome had forced them into. During the riot they resisted for a long time against Roman soldiers. Few against a whole army. Some of them went crazy and started murders, rapes and violence. Spartacus punished them with death. But in those lands, when blood gets shed, they come back."
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Sheldon Warnock - May 31, 2011 02:36 AM (GMT)
Morituris is scheduled to have its world première at this year's
Fantasy Horror Award in Orvieto, Italy on June 3rd; it's to be presented in Italian with English subtitles. It's also scheduled to be screened at this year's
Roma3FilmTeatroFest in Rome on June 11th.
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Sheldon Warnock - July 7, 2011 10:36 PM (GMT)
Morituris is scheduled to have its international (i.e., outside-of-Italy) première at this year's
Fantasia International Film Festival in Montréal on July 30th.
Here's a description of
Morituris from Fantasia: "Part of a wave of new Italian horror led by Federico Zampaglione's popular shocker
SHADOW, director Raffaele Picchio's
MORITURIS burns slow at the start as the three laddish leads pick up two attractive girls, getting to know each other on their trip as their conversations touch on subjects both mundane and profound. Love seems to blossom between two of them and, though we expect something nasty will eventually befall all (this is a horror movie, after all), what actually does go down is designed to test audiences acceptance of both the absurd and the vile. As the gang proceeds on foot to their final destination, a series of shocking events inexplicably wake an army of bloodthirsty undead Roman gladiators intent on subjecting the interlopers to all manner of Sergio Stivaletti-generated bloody death. Fans of Stivaletti, certainly one of Italy's greatest special effects make-up artists, will no doubt thrill to see the maestro - he of so many a Dario Argento (
OPERA), Lamberto Bava (
DEMONS) and Michele Soavi (
DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE) film - return to tear flesh as only he can do, with rococo flair and grandiose bloodlust. ¶ Dark, cruel, strong, weird and violent,
MORITURIS harkens back to the hyper-stylized violent aesthetic of Italian shock maestro Lucio Fulci (think of a perverse blend of
NEW YORK RIPPER and
ZOMBIE and you have a vague concept of the picture's tone, and level of sleaze and grue) but also it mines meat-and-potatoes North American slasher potboilers and survivalist terror with equally ruthless aplomb. It's that blend of the familiar and the exotic that makes
MORITURIS such a potent and deeply strange viewing experience. Those who like their cheap, visceral thrills with a bit of Mediterranean eccentricity and operatic grandeur should dig the hell out of this blood-spattered nightmare. It's
BEN-HUR from beyond the grave. It's
SPARTACUS with rough sex and spooks. It's
GLADIATOR with graphic gore and ghouls. It's... you get the picture. See it."
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Sheldon Warnock - July 20, 2011 08:54 PM (GMT)
A theatrical trailer for
Morituris has been added to the official website for the movie, and to YouTube.
YouTube: Morituris theatrical trailer (viewer discretion is advised)YouTube: Morituris promo videoMorituris official website (now w/ theatrical trailer -
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Sheldon Warnock - July 30, 2011 03:38 PM (GMT)
In the opinion of Bloody Disgusting's Brad Miska,
"Morituris might just be the most vile movie since, maybe ever?" As I previously noted, the movie is scheduled to have its international première at Fantasia tonight (July 30th).
Bloody Disgusting:
Brad Miska's review of
Moriturishttp://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/5293/review| QUOTE |
| Taking a break from raping and kicking the women, one of the dudes calls his brother to check in. What's the brother up to? Oh, he's dripping acid on a girl's stomach but of course! She's tied up and being tortured by the brother, who then proceeds to stick a tube in her vagina and drop a mouse down it. For real. No joke. There's zero point or social relevance to ANY of this. |
Sin Street Sleaze:
"Fred & Rose West: Their Snuff Film Connection?"
http://john-harrison.blogspot.com/2007/11/...snuff-film.html| QUOTE |
| *The video which [Geoffrey] Wansell refers to [in his biography An Evil Love: The Life of Frederick West] is Kilroy Was Here [the onscreen title of the porn loop in question is "Kill Roy Was Here"; like the onscreen title of Apocalypse Now, it appears as graffiti on a wall], a very grotty and brutal 17 minute short made in Europe in the mid-1970s by H.O.M Productions [House of Milan]. The film, shot without dialogue, has a young woman tied and gagged in a low-rent, dirty room, where she is subsequently raped by two lecherous men who let mice crawl all over her body before making them run up a plastic tube that has been inserted into her. The men also have sex with each other, before leaving the girl tied up with a lit cigarette inserted into her vagina. Although disturbing and violent, the film was legitimately available from European mail-order sources, both as an 8mm short in the 1970s, and as part of a compilation video released by Videorama in the 1980s. |
Sheldon Warnock - August 3, 2011 11:28 AM (GMT)
FEARnet found
Morituris to be "a brutal, unrelenting, and frequently unpredictable piece of survival horror." According to
Twitch, "it's a sort of a peplum-slasher (probably the first of its kind), but the approach resembles a lot that of the recent French new wave of horror movies. If you liked those flicks, you will probably like this one too."
Whether or not Twitch's comparison of
Morituris to "the recent French new wave of horror movies" is valid, the movie apparently does resemble Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's
Inside (
À l'intérieur) in at least one respect: scissors are memorably used in it, too... although in it the scissoring is of a sexual nature.
Fangoria editor Chris Alexander's aforequoted comparison of it to Lucio Fulci's
The New York Ripper (
Lo squartatore di New York) seems quite credible.
FEARnet:
Morituris review
http://www.fearnet.com/news/reviews/b23354...ris_review.html | QUOTE |
| From the moment the cruelty begins, Morituris becomes awash in bleak, oppressive horror. Characters are brutally abused and left wandering naked into even worse fates; the music and the cinematography are consistently unnerving; there's an feverish and savage edge to the proceedings that most horror films wouldn't have the stones to explore. There's actually a lot to like about this nasty little horror flick, not the least of which is that it may mark a small return to form for the horror-lovin' nation of Italy. |
Sheldon Warnock - August 12, 2011 10:56 PM (GMT)
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This deranged film belongs to the crazy section of movie-goers and its mean spirit is dedicated to the demented souls (present company included) who can appriciate a brutal and gut wrenching film, when they stumble upon one.
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There's a thin line between misanthropic fun and a hardcore exploitation film. "Morituris" uses scissors in order to cut this line and messes with audiences expectations.
Ruggero deodato (The House on the Edge of the Park) will be proud. |
Bloody Disgusting's hysterical reaction to
Morituris in its aforelinked "
Negative 100 million out of 5 Skulls" review resembles the hysterical reaction to Lucky McKee's even more controversial
The Woman - a movie that it plans to release theatrically in the U.S. in October, under its
Bloody Disgusting Selects label. Perhaps its
ostentatiously anti-chauvinist review is meant to be seen as evidence that it wouldn't distribute a movie that wallows in misogyny, as a number of critics have denounced
The Woman as being such a movie - as exploiting that which it purports to condemn.
With regard to "the recent French new wave of horror movies" that Twitch previously compared
Morituris to, according to the official Facebook page for Maury and Bustillo's sophomore feature
Livid (
Livide), that movie is scheduled to have its world première at the
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 11th.
YouTube: Morituris theatrical trailer (viewer discretion is advised)YouTube: Morituris promo videoMorituris official website (w/ theatrical trailer -
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Livid official Facebook pageTIFF: LividSheldon Warnock - August 18, 2011 12:38 AM (GMT)
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PARK CITY -- (Park City at Midnight) More bloody excreta from the strangely Sundance-approved film directed by Lucky McKee, The Woman is the latest supposedly feminist horror flick to use five climactic minutes of gory male-directed payback to justify presenting an hour and a half of brutal misogyny. Not unlikely to find a home-vid following among genre fans, it could make money for distribs who don't mind being associated with it.
Like an especially perverse Lars Von Trier outing stripped of intellect, humor and artistry, the movie takes a raised-by-wolves-ish feral woman and puts her at the mercy of Chris Cleek (Sean Bridgers), a caricature of condescending, wife-dominating suburban manhood. |
Sheldon Warnock - August 24, 2011 02:18 AM (GMT)
The following description of the aforementioned
Livid has just been added to the page for the movie on the TIFF website: "Step into Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's house of horror and mystery in
Livid. The duo responsible for
Inside - one of Midnight Madness' most beloved and bloody past selections - are back with a cinematic beast that is wholly different from their prenatal slasher. ¶ As she copes with the suicide of her mother, Lucie (Chloé Coulloud) takes a job assisting housebound seniors lost in varying states of dementia. One of her charges is very different from the rest: a renowned dancer, Madame Jessel (Marie-Claude Pietragalla) now lies comatose in a decrepit mansion. A wizened crone hooked up to a life-support system in a room surrounded by old books and arcane artefacts, Jessel is rumoured to have a small fortune stashed somewhere in her dark and dusty home. Tempted by this tale of hidden treasure, Lucie and her two friends break into the estate in search of their ticket to a new and better life. ¶ The mysterious mansion is a gorgeously detailed labyrinth of locked doors that seems to hold no reward for the threesome - until their curiosity opens a Pandora's box of unspeakable horror that twists their night into a demented punishment for their greed. The friends find themselves tormented by Jessel and her long-dead, mute daughter in a grotesque and macabre ballet of terrors danced inside a creepy puzzle box of a home. ¶ Adding a new mythology to the old-dark-house genre, and proving that they are not bound by gore, Maury and Bustillo reunite with
Inside editor Baxter (responsible for cutting
High Tension and
The Incident, also featured in this year's Midnight Madness lineup) and cinematographer Laurent Barès (
Frontier(s)) to craft a terrifying, dreamlike realm. ¶ Rather than returning to the sledgehammer style of their previous work, the directors have created a sublime and poetic kind of nightmare, pulling in more classical and phantasmagorical sources of literary horror - well, maybe not in the case of a certain brain-munching scene."
As I previously noted,
Livid is scheduled to have its world première at TIFF on September 11th; it subsequently is to be screened there on September 13th. It's scheduled to have its European première in competition at the
Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg (FEFFS) in France on September 17th, and to subsequently be screened there on September 18th.
BTW, although young Chloé Marcq isn't included in either TIFF's or FEFFS' cast lists for
Livid, I suspect that she/her character Anna may end up stealing the movie, based on the stills from it that I've seen!
Livid official Facebook pageTIFF: LividFEFFS: LividCarlotta-Forsberg.com: Chloé MarcqSheldon Warnock - September 3, 2011 04:18 PM (GMT)
Ain't It Cool News:
Morituris review (August 26, 2011)
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50970#4| QUOTE |
But when the zombie gladiators do attack, whoa nelly! Picchio takes full advantage of the gladiators' arsenal of weapons to do away with the partygoers in brutal and sadistic fashion. Though one might wonder how these gladiators ever killed anything at the slow rate they move, they do prove to be formidable and evil bastards when they do catch up to their prey. It's a face splattering, spear gouging, cat-o-nine-tails whipping, sword slashing, crucifyingly good time.
MORITURIS is definitely not what you expect. I'll leave it at that. But in the end, it offers what you want out of a film about gladiator zombies: brutal kills and evil people. The less known about MORITURIS the better before going into it, but once in, gore and horror fans are not going to want this film to end! |
Sheldon Warnock - September 6, 2011 08:45 PM (GMT)
As I previously alluded to, and as the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) entry for
Morituris explicitly states, "this movie was partly inspired by true events known as the 'Circeo Massacre' (in Italian: 'Massacro del Circeo'), which occurred primarily in the commune of San Felice Circeo, Italy at the end of September of 1975. Three young men raped and tortured a 19-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl for two days, then murdered the woman; the girl avoided being murdered by pretending to be dead."
With regard to the repeated use of the word "anophthalmia" in
The Woman - each time by Chris Cleek (
Sean Bridgers) in reference to his daughter 'Socket' Cleek (
Alexa Marcigliano) - unilateral anophthalmia is the
congenital absence of one eye, and bilateral anophthalmia is the
congenital absence of both eyes. BTW, if
The Woman uses feminist commentary as a pretext for wallowing in misogyny, does this mean that it's a feministsploitation movie?
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Fantastic Forge: MoriturisWikipedia: "Massacro del Circeo" (in Italian)
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YouTube: The Woman Australian theatrical trailerThe Woman official websiteMonster Pictures: The WomanBloody Disgusting Selects: The WomanWikipedia: "Anophthalmia"Sheldon Warnock - September 14, 2011 12:45 AM (GMT)
LividApparently, Twitch's comparison of
Morituris to "the recent French new wave of horror movies" doesn't include the aforementioned
Livid; whereas its aforelinked review of the "provocative and unrelenting"
Morituris was extremely positive, its belowlinked review of the "badly flawed"
Livid is quite negative.
Twitch:
Livid review
http://twitchfilm.com/reviews/2011/09/tiff...ivid-review.php| QUOTE |
A radically different film than Inside, Livid plays as a sort of giallo influenced gothic fairytale. It's a movie of impulses and feelings more than logic, one that operates in a sort of dream state, and one packed to the gills with gorgeous visuals and interesting ideas. Unfortunately it also seems that once the energy had been spent creating and developing those ideas there wasn't quite enough left to properly construct characters or a story that would really drive them home. While the mythology of the world Maury and Bustillo have created is fascinating and unique the characters dropped into it are to shallow and - to put it bluntly - stupid to really care about. Lacking narrative drive the film simply drifts from set piece to set piece without ever quite building up the tension that each seems to deserve until it arrives at a disappointingly soft conclusion.
The visual aspect of Livid provides more than enough to demonstrate that Maury and Bustillo are still among the most inventive and talented directors in the international horror scene today. Their world is rich with detail, at its best points feeling like a childhood dream right on the cusp of turning from fantasy to nightmare. But on the whole Livid is badly flawed, the overall experience suffering from not enough attention to character and narrative. It's as though the film lives in something of a mid-state itself, caught in a nether region between being a pure experimental arthouse piece and a more conventional horror story. Maury and Bustillo could easily make a film that pushes in either of those directions and make it very well and either of those options would ultimately have been more satisfying than getting stuck in this middle ground, a territory that flirts with both impulses but satisfies neither. |
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For a story so drenched in blood, cinematographer Laurent Bares and set designer Marc Thiebault bring a delicate quality to the film, examining the house's taxidermy in quick meditations, then cutting to Mme. Jessel and her ballet troupe, all made up and wardrobed as museum figures. Production values are superb, whether Bares is observing a dancer's skirt or watching rusted shears enter an eye-socket.
Livid's elegiac ending lifts the film away its hard-hitting violence and into a mystical realm. Perhaps Maury and Bustillo were making a gesture to the women who could be intended as part of the audience for a film with a mostly female cast.
The acting ensemble is strong - with Moati and Kapone relegated to simple-minded male types - but Coulloud, always at the center of the action, has advanced beyond her years of cute teen roles. In an early scene, we see her as a composed young woman, with a job to do, who knows how to give an injection, a sign that she might have a feel for other instruments that break the skin. |
Sheldon Warnock - September 14, 2011 06:25 PM (GMT)
LividIn stark contrast to Twitch's aforelinked reviews of
Morituris and
Livid, Bloody Disgusting's aforelinked review of
Morituris - which, it whined, "might just be the most vile movie since, maybe ever?" - was extremely negative ("
Negative 100 million out of 5 Skulls"), whereas its belowlinked review of
Livid - which, it gushes, is "a film that's drenched in imagery that will resonate with viewers for decades" - is quite positive (3 1/2 out of 5 skulls).
Bloody Disgusting:
Livid review
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/3881/review| QUOTE |
But to say Livid is a bad movie is a major fallacy, in fact, I'm pretty sure it will eventually grow on those who were expecting a bloodbath. It only took me two days to let it sink in...
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And even though it's not an ultra violent effort, there are still quite a bit of gore-filled sequences that'll give the gorehounds a taste of what they desire. Instead, the duo focus on atmosphere and fear; Livid can be pretty f*cking scary - and it's jam-packed with bizarre and terrifying oddities (like the robot ballerina who appears to come to life). Unfortunately, the movie needs to fight for the audience's respect, which is completely lost in the finale that literally goes off the deep end. In fact, I'd say it straight up infuriated some people.
Livid is not going to make fans of Inside happy. In fact, I expect most of you to despise it with pure venom. But I implore you all to manage your expectations, shift your thinking, and go in with a clear mind. My hope is that you'll find a place in your heart for this moody art house horror pic, one that's sure to be trashed across the board. |
Sheldon Warnock - September 21, 2011 12:06 AM (GMT)
LividVariety:
Livid review (September 17, 2011)
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117946134/| QUOTE |
From here, "Livid" throws elements of a half-dozen horror subgenres at the wall to see what sticks, tossing in slashers, flesh-eaters, eye-stitching freaks, butterflies emerging from human mouths, a floating ghost-cum-angel, and Beatrice Dalle as Lucie's mom. Exactly how all these terrors fit together isn't clear, and the writer-directors don't establish enough of a camp vibe to signal that the pic ought to be taken that way.
To their credit, though, Maury and Bustillo work wonders with castmembers young and (very) old, while the reliably sharp editing of mononymous Baxter cuts to the bone and beyond. Visual effects are, like the narrative, all over the place, but other tech credits hit the mark, including Raphael Gesqua's pulsing score and multichannel sound work that more than compensates for what d.p. Laurent Bares prefers to keep in the dark. |
The Twitch and
Variety reviews of
Livid - which I myself haven't seen yet - remind me of what Lucio Fulci said to Robert Schlockoff about
The Beyond (
...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà)...
Film Fanaddict:
Interview of Lucio Fulci by Robert Schlockoff
http://www.shockingimages.com/fulci/interview2.html| QUOTE |
[The following is from an interview of Lucio Fulci by Robert Schlockoff for L'écran fantastique n°22 (1982), as translated from the French by Frederic Levy and reprinted in Starburst n°48 (1982).]
[Robert Schlockoff:] Did you conceive The Beyond as a sequel to City of the Living Dead?
[Lucio Fulci:] No, my idea was to make an absolute film, with all the horrors of our world. It's a plotless film: a house, people, and dead men coming from The Beyond. There's no logic to it, just a succession of images. The Sea of Darkness, for instance, is an absolute world, an immobile world where every horizon is similar. I think each man chooses his own inner hell, corresponding to his hidden vices. So I am not afraid of Hell, since Hell is already in us. Curiously enough, I can't imagine a Paradise exists, though I am a Catholic - but perhaps God has left me? - yet I have often envisaged Hell, since we live in a society where only Hell can be perceived. Finally, I realize that Paradise is indescribable. Imagination is much stronger when it is pressed by the terrors of Hell.
. . .
[Robert Schlockoff:] Comparisons have been made between The House Near the Cemetery and Dario Argento's Inferno.
[Lucio Fulci:] The themes are different, but I won't deny there are some connections between Argento and myself. Both films, intentionally, have no structure. We tried in Italy to make films based on pure themes, without a plot, and The Beyond, like Inferno, refuses conventions and traditional structures, while there are some threads in my other films: The House is about a monster, The Ripper is an Hitchcockian thriller, City of the Living Dead deals with Evil, Zombi 2 with death and the macabre. I like The Beyond very much because I think it was an interesting attempt.
People who blame The Beyond for its lack of story have not understood that it's a film of images, which must be received without any reflection. They say it is very difficult to interpret such a film, but it is very easy to interpret a film with threads: any idiot can understand Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles, or even Carpenter's Escape from New York, while The Beyond or Argento's Inferno are absolute films. |
Sheldon Warnock - October 13, 2011 05:49 PM (GMT)
Morituris is scheduled to be screened at this year's
Sitges Film Festival in Spain tomorrow (October 14th), and at this year's
Night Visions Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland on October 28th.
Here's a description of
Morituris from the Night Visions Film Festival website: "Despite having its roots firmly in the ground of contemporary gorno cinema and reminding us of the horrific acts of violence portrayed in the likes of The Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave, Morituris stands in a league of its own. Featuring special effects by the Italian master of the craft Sergio Stivaletti, this story of bloodthirsty gladiators coming back to life in the backwoods of today’s Italy has been compared to the works of the legendary Lucio Fulci."
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Sitges Film Festival: MoriturisNight Visions Film Festival: MoriturisAin't It Cool News: Morituris reviewTwitch: Morituris review Sheldon Warnock - October 22, 2011 10:43 PM (GMT)
Sheldon Warnock - October 24, 2011 08:00 PM (GMT)
Above is a French theatrical poster for
Livid; linked to immediately below is a much larger (1540 x 2048) version of it.
Livid French theatrical poster (JPEG - larger version of the above)
Twitch: Livid reviewBloody Disgusting: Livid reviewVariety: Livid reviewPoster source:
GOMORRAHY.com: Trailer Park subsite (an "NSFW ghetto", and unabashedly so!)
Sheldon Warnock - October 28, 2011 09:47 PM (GMT)
A theatrical trailer for
Livid has been added to YouTube.
YouTube: Livid theatrical trailerTrailer source:
The Gomorrahizer's channel Sheldon Warnock - June 3, 2012 11:15 AM (GMT)
London-based
StudioCanal Limited is scheduled to release
Livid on DVD and Blu-ray in the U.K. on August 13th; both the DVD and Blu-ray are now available for pre-order from Amazon.co.uk (Amazon EU SARL).
YouTube: Livid theatrical trailerAmazon.co.uk: Livid U.K. DVDAmazon.co.uk: Livid U.K. Blu-rayNews source:
The Gomorrahizer (source of French horror movie news for over half a decade!)
Sheldon Warnock - July 16, 2012 03:41 PM (GMT)
Sheldon Warnock - November 12, 2012 12:08 AM (GMT)
Morituris is scheduled to be screened at this year's
Morbido Film Fest in Patzcuaro, Mexico on Saturday November 17th (technically, Sunday November 18th) at 2:00 a.m..
Morituris is scheduled to be released by
Njutafilms on DVD in Sweden on January 9th of next year (it was released on DVD in Finland last month).
Morituris has been banned theatrically in Italy!YouTube: Morituris theatrical trailer (viewer discretion is advised)Morituris official website (w/ theatrical trailer -
viewer discretion is advised)
Morbido Film Fest: MoriturisNjutafilms: Morituris Swedish DVDAin't It Cool News: Morituris reviewTwitch: Morituris reviewNocturno Cinema: "L'Italia non e' pronta per Morituris" (November 8, 2012)
InGenere Cinema: "RIFIUTATO il Visto Censura a MORITURIS di Raffaele Picchio" (November 10, 2012)
News source:
Partial-Birth Sex (PBS)Morituris: Banned theatrically in Italy...
...released on DVD in Finland...
...and coming soon on DVD in Sweden!
Sheldon Warnock - November 12, 2012 06:41 PM (GMT)
Linked to below are a few more articles on the Italian theatrical ban of
Morituris; unfortunately, at present there doesn't appear to be any English-language articles online that even mention the ban.
CineClandestino: "La censura blocca 'Morituris'" (November 9, 2012)
WhipArt: "Non è un paese per Morituris" (November 9, 2012)
Cani Arrabbiati: "Morituris: l'Inquisizione è ancora viva" (November 10, 2012)
Taxi Drivers: "Morituris: Il NO dell'Ufficio Censura!" (November 11, 2012)
Sheldon Warnock - November 14, 2012 02:58 AM (GMT)
I dug up an official source online which indicates that
Morituris has been banned theatrically in Italy...
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC):
Direzione Generale per il Cinema:
Film e revisione:
Database nulla osta film:
Moriturishttp://www.cinema.beniculturali.it/filmNul...06667&IDMenu=52| QUOTE |
Nulla osta: 106667
Titolo: MORITURIS
Titolo originale:
Produzione: FINGERCHOP MOVIE PROD.
Richiedente: FINGERCHOP MOVIE PROD.
Metri: 78
Data nulla osta: 06/11/2012 14.10.00
Nazionalitá: italiana
Divieto: Respin
Qualifica:
[colons and red highlighting added] |
Quoted below are the reasons cited by the Commissione di Revisione Cinematografica - a.k.a.
Commissione per la Revisione Cinematografica - for having banned
Morituris theatrically in Italy...
Nocturno Cinema:
"Hic sunt leones" (November 13, 2012)
http://www.nocturno.it/news/hic-sunt-leones| QUOTE |
Ed ecco che, il 6 novembre scorso, arriva la notizia della bocciatura da parte del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali al film di Raffaele Picchio Morituris. Un horror indipendente e certo truculento, che unisce dinamiche ispirate a certa sexploitation anni ’70 a uno spunto fantastico davvero curioso e insolito. Se i tre degenerati protagonisti (e il loro mentore interpretato dall’ex pornoattore Francesco Malcom Truzzi) sono disegnati con un occhio alle belve del Circeo, e il crescendo con cui Picchio racconta la trappola costruita ai danni delle due povere ragazze romene (conosciute in discoteca e persuase ad accompagnare i tre a un fantomatico rave sulla Cassia) ha la spietatezza dei rape & revenge che i lettori nocturniani ben conoscono, l’entrata in scena di una piccola armata di gladiatori zombie dà il “la” agli effetti splatter di Sergio Stivaletti.
Ecco la sobria motivazione che accompagna il provvedimento di rigetto, firmata dal direttore amministrativo Dott. Gianpiero Tulelli: «la Commissione di revisione cinematografica, visionato il film […] esprime, all’unanimità, parere contrario al rilascio di nulla osta per la proiezione in pubblico per motivi di offesa al buon costume, intendendo gli atti di violenza e di perversione sulle donne, motivati dal gusto della sopraffazione e dall’ebbrezza della propria forza rafforzata dal consumo di alcool e droga. Inoltre i “giustizieri” si accaniscono sia sui ragazzi, rei di violenza e sadismo, sia sulle ragazze vittime dei loro carnefici. Infine, negli atti di perversa violenza viene impiegato un topolino come un oggetto sessuale. Pertanto la Commissione ritiene la pellicola un saggio di perversività e sadismo gratuiti». |
Sheldon Warnock - November 15, 2012 02:09 AM (GMT)
Today, an English-language movie news website finally reported on the banning of
Morituris theatrically in Italy...
Bloody Disgusting:
"Mean-Spirited 'Morituris' Gets Banned In Italy" (November 14, 2012)
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3203378/...y/#more-3203378| QUOTE |
Raffaele Picchio's Italian horror film Morituris - which I gave negative skulls out of the 2011 Fantasia Film Festival, due to its mean-spirited nature - was supposed to be released in Italy in November in a small self distribution (with the short film "Versipellis" by Donatello della Pepa opening). Says a press release, this will never happen because il Ministero dei Beni Culturali, organ of censorship in Italy, decided to stop the film and to ban Morituris from Italian theatres. Last time it happened was with Toto' che visse due volte, directed by Daniele Cipri' and Franco Maresco in '98.
The letter with the banning motivations accuse the films to be a "gratuity essay of perversion and sadism," and "the commission unanimously sentence contrariety to allowing for public projection because of offence to good morals, intending acts of violence and perversion against women, motivated by enjoying of overcoming and thrill of self strength, empowered by consume of alcohol and drugs. The avengers find revenge against both boys, guilty of violence, and girls, victims of violence. At last, in acts of extreme perversion, a little mouse is used as a sex tool."
Morituris, being shown in the main genre festivals in the world, will be released soon in foreign countries but not in Italy. |
Sheldon Warnock - May 12, 2013 04:10 PM (GMT)
Fangoria.com:
"Italian gorefest 'MORITURIS' coming to the U.S." (May 7, 2013)
http://www.fangoria.com/new/italian-gorefe...ing-to-the-u-s/| QUOTE |
Fans of spaghetti splatter will be glad to hear the gladiator horror film MORITURIS is making its way over from Italy to Stateside disc release. Fango got the exclusive; read on for the news.
We heard from Synapse Films that the company has acquired MORITURIS and plans to issue it later this year; details are still being ironed out. |
