Who snares young wanna-be actresses with fake auditions?
How far can a twisted mind push its lust for pain and torture?
DANIA FILM AND SURF FILM
In collaboration with GENERAL VIDEO
present
a DUE P.T. CINEMATOGRAFICA production
The torturer
by LAMBERTO BAVA
... I like hearing my victims moan ...
... When I’m filming I’m the director of life and death ...
... When I approach, they howl in terror because they’ve learnt to recognise me ...
... I get excited by their last death rattle...
SYNOPSYS
Hoping to be come famous, Ginette, a young actress, auditions for Alex Scerba, a rather eccentric director notorious for his outrageous, unrestrained films and his constant search for the ultimate shock effect. During the auditions Ginette falls for Alex and the two start going out together. From certain unequivocal clues, Ginette comes to realize that her best friend Marzia, who disappeared several days before without leaving a trace, also auditioned for Scerba. In the same place, other young women are auditioning for a mysterious personage whose face and identity are both concealed. Three of these girls, desperate to become actresses, are subjected to a crazy screening process characterized by insane, depraved tortures.These two very modern tales, linked by the story line of a delirious, troubled mind, play themselves out over a brief period of time only to end up entwined one with the other in the grand finale.Ginette investigates her friend’s disappearance and sneaks into the Scerba villa, where Alex’s elderly, mentally disturbed mother, stepfather and taciturn foreign maid live. Could Marzia have been in the villa before disappearing? And who is the mysterious Torturer who delights in provoking young women, in placing them in extreme situations and then in filming the agony of their death throes and the subsequent decomposition of their bodies? Terrified, Ginette attempts to escape from Alex’s villa only to fall into the hands of the Torturer.
LAMBERTO BAVA
Born in Rome, son of the legendary director Mario Bava, Lamberto started following his father on set and collaborating with the scripts. After a period in advertising, he started working in feature films co directing with his father the Tv drama “The Venus of ille” (1977) from a short story by Prosper Merimee, for which he had also written the script with the great Cesare Garboli. He made his solo directorial debut with “Macabre“ (1980), produced by Pupi Avati and co-written with Antonio Avati, Gandus and Bava. His next movie was “A blade in the dark” (1983), followed by two movies shot in the United States “Devil Fish” (aka Monster Shark) and “Blast Fighter” . Lamberto has always had strong ties with Dario Argento, having started out as his assistant on “Inferno” (1978) and on “Tenebre” (1982). It is with Argento that Bava made his career change when, in 1985, he wrote “Demons” with Sacchetti, Ferrini, and Argento which he also produced. The next year “Demons 2“ confirmed the series as one of the best horrors of the eighties. In the following years Lamberto Bava directed several hugely successful TV series including “ Fantaghiro’” (five miniseries from 1991 to 1995), “The dragon ring” (1994), “Sorellina” (1995), “The princess and the pauper” (1996), “Caraibi” (1998) as well as directing two Tv horrors and the internationally distributed movie “Body Puzzle”.