Tulpa (film)

Tulpa (Italian: Tulpa – Perdizioni mortali) is a 2012 Italian giallo-horror film co-written and directed by Federico Zampaglione. It premiered at the 2012 London FrightFest Film Festival^[1] and was released in Italy on 20 June 2013.

Tulpa
Theatrical release poster
Italian	Tulpa – Perdizioni mortali
Directed by	Federico Zampaglione
Screenplay by	Giacomo Gensini Federico Zampaglione
Story by	Dardano Sacchetti
Produced by	Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Starring	Claudia Gerini Michela Cescon Ivan Franek Nuot Arquint Federica Vincenti Pierpaolo Lovino Giulia Bertinelli Giorgia Sinicorni Crisula Stafida Piero Maggiò Michele Placido
Cinematography	Giuseppe Maio
Edited by	Marco Spoletini
Music by	Francesco Zampaglione Andrea Moscianese
Production company	Italian Dreams Factory
Distributed by	Bolero Film
Release dates	25 August 2012 (2012-08-25) (FrightFest) 20 June 2013 (2013-06-20) (Italy)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	English

Plot

Lisa Boeri is a businesswoman with a secret double life: if during the day she is a busy and serious worker, the night she is an assiduous frequenter of the private club Tulpa, owned by a haunting Tibetan guru, where the sickest fantasies of customers become reality. But the fiery lovers who attended Lisa begin to die one by one in increasingly cruel ways, and the woman finds herself involved in the chain of murders. Forced to investigate on her own, not to discover her double life to the police, she will face a terrible escalation of death, mystery and eroticism.

Cast

• Claudia Gerini as Lisa Boeri
• Michela Cescon as Giovanna
• Nuot Arquint as Kiran
• Michele Placido as Roccaforte
• Ennio Tozzi as Ferri
• Ivan Franek as Stefan
• Crisula Stafida as Giulia

Reception

The film received generally positive reviews by Italian film critics. It was referred as "more than a tribute to the masters of the genre of the Seventies", "an attempt to resurrect an imaginary, a disenchanted and passionate way of making films".^[2] Film critic Natalino Bruzzone wrote: "Tulpa has defects and failures, but its constant, uncertain balance between suspense, frightening visual style, grotesque and liberating sense of the absurd make it interesting".^[3]