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Visiting filming locations and other movie adventures with Jarno Mahlberg. Some of these locations have been covered elsewhere, but all represent my own research and view. Enjoy, comment and follow.
Showing posts with label Rome. Show all posts
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Visiting Filming Locations of "Blood and Black Lace" (Sei donne per l'assassino) (1964) in Rome, Italy

Directed by Mario Bava
Produced by Alfredo Mirabile and Georges C. Stilly
Screenplay by Mario Bava and Marcello Fondato
Starring Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Ariana Gorini and Mary Arden

Blood and Black Lace (Italian: Sei donne per l'assassino; also known as Six Women for the Murderer) is a 1964 Italian thriller film directed by Mario Bava. Bava co-wrote the screenplay with Giuseppe Barilla and Marcello Fondato. The film stars Cameron Mitchell and Eva Bartok. The story concerns the stalking and brutal murders of various scantily-clad fashion models, committed by a masked killer in a desperate attempt to obtain a scandal-revealing diary.

The film is generally considered one of the earliest and most influential of all giallo films, and served as a stylistic template for the "body count" slasher films of the 1980s. Tim Lucas has noted that the film has "gone on to inspire legions of contemporary filmmakers, from Dario Argento to Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino." In 2004, one of its sequences was voted No. 85 in "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments" by the Bravo TV network. -Wikipedia


Peggy (Mary Arden) arrives home. Down the street you can see the church of Santa Maria della Pace.

Monday, November 10, 2014

Visiting Filming Locations of "La terza madre" (Mother of Tears) (2007) in Rome, Italy

Directed by Dario Argento
Written by Jace Anderson, Dario Argento, Walter Fasano, Adam Gierasch and Simona Simonetti
Starring Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James and Moran Atias

Part three of the "Three Mothers" trilogy which takes place in Rome and has to do with Mater Lachrymarum (The Third Mother).

Primary filming occurred in Rome, although some parts were filmed in Turin and at the studios of Cinecittà. The Italian distributor Medusa Film believed the film was too violent and want it to be edited. Medusa's main objection is to "the depiction of perverse sex in the witch gathering satanic scenes and one cannibal killing of a major character."

The opening scene of the film, the opening of the urn with subsequent escape of Sarah Mandy (Asia Argento) , was shot at Palazzo Braschi in Piazza San Pantaleo.



The bridge from which the mother throws the baby into the Tiber is the famous Ponte Sant Angelo.

 A shot of Via degli Annibaldi.

The church that is on fire because of the fury of the third mother, is the church of Santa Caterina dei Funari.



Sarah is following the witches at Piazza San Francesco di Paola.

Visiting Filming Location of "4 mosche di velluto grigio" (Four Flies on Grey Velvet) (1971) in Rome, Italy

Directed by Dario Argento
Strory by Dario Argento, Luigi Cozzi and Mario Foglietti
Starring  Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer and Bud Spencer

A musician is stalked by an unknown killer who's blackmailing him for an accidential killing of another stalker. But is everything what it appears to be?

This was originally intended to be Argento's swan song to the giallo genre. This would later change once Le cinque giornate (Five Days of Milan) did poorly at the box-office.


 Maria (Costanza Spada) meets Andrea (Stefano Satta Flores) at Piazza dei Quiriti.

Visiting Filming Location of "Un gatto nel cervello" (Cat in the Brain) (1990) in Rome, Italy

Directed by Lucio Fulci
Screenplay by Lucio Fulci, Giovanni Simonelli and Antonio Tentori
Starring Lucio Fulci and David L. Thompson

A horror film director (Lucio Fulci) is stalked by a mad psychiatrist/serial killer (David L. Thompson) bent on killing people to model the killings after the director's gory death scenes from his movies.

Many events in the film are based on Lucio Fulci's experiences as a filmmaker. The original script was 49 pages long and contained no dialogue. It consisted of descriptions of bodily mutilations/imagery and sound effects that would compliment them on screen.

 Dr. Lucio Fulci is going home after a work day at Cinecittà.

 Dr. Lucio Fulci arriving to work at Cinecittà.

Visiting Filming Locations of "Il cartaio" (The Card Player) (2004) in Rome, Italy

Directed by Dario Argento
Screenplay by Dario Argento and Franco Ferrini
Starring Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Silvio Muccino

The film centers around a serial killer known as "The Card Player", who is kidnapping young women in Rome. Using a webcam set-up, the killer challenges the police by forcing them to play hands of Internet poker. If the police lose, the kidnapped victim is tortured and murdered on-screen.

This is Argento's second giallo feature of the decade, following Non ho sonno (Sleepless) and has a brief role by Fiore Argento, the director's eldest daughter. She had previously appeared in her father's films Phenomena and Demons.

 Anna Mari (Stefania Rocca) and (Liam Cunningham) at Pantheon.

Riikka taking the picture.




The pub where Remo (Silvio Muccino) meets a mysterious girl was Jonathan's Angels, now renovated and called Mon's Angel's after the new owner, at Via Fossa 16.


 Remo chases the girl at Piazza Mattei.



 The chase ends at between Ponte Cestio and Ponte Palatino.

Me, Juho and Henri.