Federico Zampaglione’s Tulpa Finally Heading to UK DVD in May
Back in 2012/13, we spoke quite a bit about Federico Zampaglione’s Tulpa, and since then our UK readers have been waiting for the film’s official home video release. Now, thanks to High Fliers Films and Jinga Films, their wait is almost over!
The UK DVD release of Federico Zampaglione’s sensational neo-giallo horror Tulpa has a street date of May 9, 2016, and is available for pre-order from Amazon UK.
Claudia Gerini (The Passion of Christ) stars as a successful businesswoman working hard to climb her way up the corporate ladder. To relax, at night she visits a strange club where all her darkest fantasies become a reality. But soon she discovers a killer is on the loose, targeting her top clients. With graphic and horrific murders all around, she discovers that the club she spends so much time in may hold the answer to the killer’s identity.
Italian rock star Federico Zampaglione burst on to the genre scene in 2010 with psychological horror Shadow, which was released by IFC Midnight in North America and Wild Bunch in the UK. Determined to de-throne Dario Argento as the king of Italian horror, Zampaglione quickly followed up with Tulpa, an homage to the aformentioned Il Duce of giallo.
Following a work-in-progress screening at FrightFest in 2012 (which is where our review is from), Zampaglione collaborated with acclaimed British horror director Julian Richards (The Last Horror Movie) to prepare Tulpa for the international market; and a final, much refined version of the film received its world premiere at the prestigious Sitges International Film Festival in Catalonia.
Zampaglione’s background in music (his band, Tiromancino, has had several hits in the Italian charts) plays a big part in his work as a genre director. Like John Carpenter, Federico and his brother, Francesco Zampaglione, have composed a pulsating, electronic score for Tulpa which echos that of Claudio Simonetti and Goblin’s work for many Argento classics.
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