I started to be interested in horror at a very young age along with other various art forms such as drawing and music.
2. Did you always enjoy writing and directing?
Yes. I have always wanted to direct and write my own stories. I have always had a clear idea of what I did not want and from there began my search to discover what I did want. Mine is an artistic path made of images, sounds and perceptions more than narrative rationality.
3. Do you prefer directing shorts or feature length films?
I love both directing short films and feature films. Directing feature films certainly requires more commitment for obvious reasons. Everything I've done has been the result of vision and experimentation and not of dogmas and clichés. I have my own rules within my cinema on every aspect, from the artistic to the technical and executive. I am the one who decides when to transform a mistake into a virtue.
4. Is there another genre that you write and direct in?
This is a question where the answer would be quite long and perhaps not exhaustive. I am not a horror director. I am an experimental animal. My cinema contains horror but it is not horror as a whole. It has different elements that go from horror to German Expressionism to the French Nouvelle Vague, dark erotica, experimental cinema and ροrn. It is a set of languages and not something that is closed within the limits of a single genre. You can say this: that it is the extreme experimentation of the underground. My two feature films especially, have within them dozens of cinematographic languages that go beyond simple horror.
5. Are there topics you would not write about in your screenplays?
I am a filmmaker without limits. I don't give a shιt about what can't be done or said or what might offend others. I am an animal without rules and I do what I want. I am a political libertarian and an artistic libertine at the same time. If I want to show nudity, sεxual violεncε or agony it is my choice regardless of the market choices. I hate politically correct and liberal thinking. It goes against the artistic freedom of the author. If I want to show an εrεct dιck or a person being rapεd I just do it. That's why I am also a producer of my works. If I had an outsider giving me orders about what I should or shouldn't do I would tell him to go fυck himself. No one can tell me what I can or can't do. I am omnipotent inside my cinema. Whatever comes into my head becomes art to be immortalized. The rest doesn't matter a damn.
6. Do you ever edit or do ghostwriting for others?
The editing in my works is mine. I do it myself and I use a technical assistant to help me realize it materially but the vision is entirely mine. All the strength of my cinema takes shape within the editing process. As for 'ghost writing' for others, I don't give a shιt. I'm only interested in my cinema. The work of others can go to hell.
7. Do you believe the audience needs to be hooked from the first scene?
Yes and no. There are no precise formulas to apply like a mathematical calculation. It depends on the film and on many factors. I don't think that way. There are films where everything depends on the first scene and other films where it is necessary to have a gradual progression. It is never black and white. That way of thinking is for those who don't understand a thing about cinema. I think that is exactly the difference between those who see cinema as pure and simple entertainment and those who instead see it as something much deeper. The rule of being 'hooked' from the first scene is basically for mentally rεtardεd people who can only have my total contempt, so it is a problem that I don't even ask myself.
8. Why do you think horror books and movies remain so popular?
For the same reasons, sεx shops sell sεx toys. People like to have οrgasms. Anything that provides pleasure of one kind or another sells.
9. Why do you think that people are obsessed with being scared?
It's another way to feel alive. In any case, there would be a lot to discuss on this point and understand what is meant by 'horror'. If it's about an idiot dressed as a clown who kills people everywhere or if it's for example something much more distressing and profound. Once again it depends on the filmmaker, the film and consequently on the type of audience. A film for mediocre people will have a mediocre audience. A profound film will have a profound audience. Mediocre people who watch a profound film don't understand it and criticize it, eliminating themselves from the crowd (as it should be). In other words, a film that has a greater depth and perhaps perversiοn than the classic commercial 'popcorn' horror will have a different audience than the typical idiot with a cheeseburger in one hand and a beer in the other while burping and waiting for the next splatter scene. I feel disgust and revulsion for that type of audience that I would rather leave to other directors worthy of it.
Horror can sometimes be a form of art and other times pure vulgarity.
10. Who inspires you?
I haven't figured it out yet.
11. What are some of your favorite horror books?
I read philosophy books that can be from the Enlightenment period to others such as Nietzsche. Horror is certainly one of the many types of reading, but not the only one. I definitely prefer Poe and Lovecraft to King, that's for sure.
12. What are your current projects?
I just finished my second feature film THE BENEFACTRESS (an exposure of cinematic freedom) which was purchased by the American label Blood Pact Films that will distribute it on DVD, Blu-ray and streaming platforms. It is my second film after DARIUSS and probably my highest and noblest artistic expression of creative and libertine freedom.. It's total insanity.
13. Please in your own words write a paragraph about yourself & your work.
I am a filmmaker driven by the strength of his sexuality, a perennial εrεction in search of visual and sonic experimentation to achieve narrative οrgasm. I am an author who pays attention only and exclusively to what is his own artistic vision. The rest of the world can go fυck itself. Mine is a search for what in my eyes is the most absolute freedom and the first rule I break is my own.
I haven't figured it out yet.
11. What are some of your favorite horror books?
I read philosophy books that can be from the Enlightenment period to others such as Nietzsche. Horror is certainly one of the many types of reading, but not the only one. I definitely prefer Poe and Lovecraft to King, that's for sure.
12. What are your current projects?
I just finished my second feature film THE BENEFACTRESS (an exposure of cinematic freedom) which was purchased by the American label Blood Pact Films that will distribute it on DVD, Blu-ray and streaming platforms. It is my second film after DARIUSS and probably my highest and noblest artistic expression of creative and libertine freedom.. It's total insanity.
13. Please in your own words write a paragraph about yourself & your work.
I am a filmmaker driven by the strength of his sexuality, a perennial εrεction in search of visual and sonic experimentation to achieve narrative οrgasm. I am an author who pays attention only and exclusively to what is his own artistic vision. The rest of the world can go fυck itself. Mine is a search for what in my eyes is the most absolute freedom and the first rule I break is my own.
