| Tulpa | |
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| Director: | Federico Zampaglione |
| Story: | Dardano Sacchetti |
| Producer: | Maria Grazia Cucinotta |
| Cinematography: | Giuseppe Maio |
| Editing: | Marco Spoletini |
| Studio: | Italian Dreams Factory |
| Distributor: | Bolero Film |
| Runtime: | 82 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
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]