Halloween 2025: Domiziano Cristopharo

Museum of Wonders, 2010, 99 mins

When the beautiful dancer Salome learns that the dwarf circus owner Marcel has just received an inheritance, she marries the lovesick, diminutive performer, all the while planning to steal his fortune and run off with her lover, strong man Sansone. When Marcel and fellow performers discover her evil plan, they band together to carry out an act of brutal revenge.

“Beauty, Madness, Sex, and Blood are melted together” – quietearth.us

2010 Fantafestival – Won, Best Film

Hyde’s Secret Nightmare, 2011, 122 mins

An erotic reinterpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic gothic novella, featuring a disgruntled scientist with impotence. His unfortunate situation leads him, and crippled assistant Hans, to explore unusual cures, including experimentation on fresh corpses. His desperation leads him to test the serum on himself, unsurprisingly this doesn’t go entirely smoothly…

“One of the only assured blendings of real sex and horror I’ve seen put on film.” – dvdtalk.com

“Employs squishy gore and ugly sex to sensually assault viewers on multiple levels” – horrornews.net

Shock: My Abstraction of Death, Alessandro Redaelli (Between Us) AND Domiziano Christopharo (Chromophobia), 2013, 90 mins

Two stories, in the first, Between Us, Yuri and Max have been friends for a lifetime, spending their evenings drinking and discussing their lives. But this particular evening will be their last.

In the second tale, Chromophobia, Celeste and her husband rent a country house for the holidays. Often alone in the house, Celeste begins to experience horrible visions that seem to emerge from the cracks in the walls. This is a house with a terrible history that slowly infects Celeste’s mind…

Two tales, twice the Shocks