The Sundance premiere won in the best director, best film and best actress categories.
Spanish thriller Piggy, the feature fiction debut of Spanish TV drama veteran Carlota Pereda, was the big winner at UK horror, sci-fi and fantasy festival Grimmfest.
The Manchester festival awarded Piggy with the best director, best film and best actress prizes, with Laura Galán scooping the win for best actress.
Piggy expands on Pereda’s 2018 short of the same name about a teenager – played by Galán – who is mercilessly bullied about her weight until, from the confines of her family’s butcher shop, she has an...
Spanish thriller Piggy, the feature fiction debut of Spanish TV drama veteran Carlota Pereda, was the big winner at UK horror, sci-fi and fantasy festival Grimmfest.
The Manchester festival awarded Piggy with the best director, best film and best actress prizes, with Laura Galán scooping the win for best actress.
Piggy expands on Pereda’s 2018 short of the same name about a teenager – played by Galán – who is mercilessly bullied about her weight until, from the confines of her family’s butcher shop, she has an...
- 10/19/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Directed by: Marco Ristori and Luca Boni
Written by: Marco Ristori and Germano Tarricone
Starring: Guglielmo Favilla, Alex Lucchesi, Claudio Marmugi, Rosella Elmi
The cover art for Eaters proclaims that the film is “presented by Uwe Boll.” This information should be more than enough for potential viewers to make up their minds. Mr. Boll did not direct this latest take on the zombie apocalypse, nor did he have much direct involvement with the production. So if the best your Italian zombie film has to trumpet is a tenuous association with the reviled filmmaker of House of the Dead, then you’ve already set the expectation level rather low. It turns out the Boll mention was an adequate, and honest, admonition of the resulting 95 minutes.
A mutant virus that turns humans into flesh-eating zombies has destroyed the civilized world. In a filthy, dilapidated compound a scientist with the unfortunate name of...
Written by: Marco Ristori and Germano Tarricone
Starring: Guglielmo Favilla, Alex Lucchesi, Claudio Marmugi, Rosella Elmi
The cover art for Eaters proclaims that the film is “presented by Uwe Boll.” This information should be more than enough for potential viewers to make up their minds. Mr. Boll did not direct this latest take on the zombie apocalypse, nor did he have much direct involvement with the production. So if the best your Italian zombie film has to trumpet is a tenuous association with the reviled filmmaker of House of the Dead, then you’ve already set the expectation level rather low. It turns out the Boll mention was an adequate, and honest, admonition of the resulting 95 minutes.
A mutant virus that turns humans into flesh-eating zombies has destroyed the civilized world. In a filthy, dilapidated compound a scientist with the unfortunate name of...
- 3/6/2013
- by Bradley Harding
- Planet Fury
*here be some spoilers.
Directors: Luca Boni and Marco Ristori.
Writers: Germano Tarricone and Marco Ristori.
Eaters or Eaters: Rise of the Dead is an Italian film in Italian that puts two characters on the road in an apocalypse. Much of the world's population is dead and those remaining shamble the earth forever. This is a tense zombie film that focuses primarily on two characters, Igor (Alex Lucchesi) and Alen (Guglielmo Favilla). Everyone else in the film, including a midget Fascist, are just a small part of this travelling zombie road show.
Much like a circus, this new world is full of perverts, mad scientists, talking zombies and even a bloodsport arena. Igor and Alen encounter all of these situations, but they deal with them in two different ways. Alen, the introvert, would rather use his guile to deal with Carvaggio, a painter of corpses and with others. Igor, the extrovert,...
Directors: Luca Boni and Marco Ristori.
Writers: Germano Tarricone and Marco Ristori.
Eaters or Eaters: Rise of the Dead is an Italian film in Italian that puts two characters on the road in an apocalypse. Much of the world's population is dead and those remaining shamble the earth forever. This is a tense zombie film that focuses primarily on two characters, Igor (Alex Lucchesi) and Alen (Guglielmo Favilla). Everyone else in the film, including a midget Fascist, are just a small part of this travelling zombie road show.
Much like a circus, this new world is full of perverts, mad scientists, talking zombies and even a bloodsport arena. Igor and Alen encounter all of these situations, but they deal with them in two different ways. Alen, the introvert, would rather use his guile to deal with Carvaggio, a painter of corpses and with others. Igor, the extrovert,...
- 11/27/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Eaters: Rise Of The Dead
Guest Review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Alex Lucchesi, Elisa Ferretti, Guglielmo Favilla, Rosella Elmi | Written by Germano Tarricone, Marco Ristori | Directed by Luca Boni, Marco Ristori
To feel sceptical about a film presented by cult writer Uwe Boll feels almost universal. I’m in the same boat as a magnitude of others, right? It’s dampened further with a film titled Eaters: Rise of the Dead. Another addition to the post-apocalyptic zombie features that are churned onto DVD weekly, with most failing to strike an original spark and flailing incoherently into something that merely glorifies sanguinary carnage.
The world has become ravaged by zombies, again. But this time we’re in Italy, with the female population falling not only infected first, but being deemed infertile. Our story, however, follows two zombie hunters, Alen and Igor, under the jurisdiction of scientist Gyno,...
Guest Review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Alex Lucchesi, Elisa Ferretti, Guglielmo Favilla, Rosella Elmi | Written by Germano Tarricone, Marco Ristori | Directed by Luca Boni, Marco Ristori
To feel sceptical about a film presented by cult writer Uwe Boll feels almost universal. I’m in the same boat as a magnitude of others, right? It’s dampened further with a film titled Eaters: Rise of the Dead. Another addition to the post-apocalyptic zombie features that are churned onto DVD weekly, with most failing to strike an original spark and flailing incoherently into something that merely glorifies sanguinary carnage.
The world has become ravaged by zombies, again. But this time we’re in Italy, with the female population falling not only infected first, but being deemed infertile. Our story, however, follows two zombie hunters, Alen and Igor, under the jurisdiction of scientist Gyno,...
- 6/12/2011
- by Guest
- Nerdly
The end of the world: Italy. First the women died, then nearly everyone else died - and then, they began to come back...
You know the scene. The dead walk, the survivors are few, and to make things worse, they're all male. In an obscure corner of Italy, zombie hunters Igor (Alex Lucchesi) and Alen (Guglielmo Favilla) provide undead test subjects for the experiments of the rather twitchy research scientist Gyno (Claudio Marmugi). Gyno's main lab-rat, however, is Alen's girlfriend Alexis (Rosella Elmi), the only female not to have been entirely 'zombified' during the Great Epidemic - and perhaps the only chance of a cure and potential future for mankind.
Trouble lies ahead when the guys discover a healthy living girl who may provide part of the answer as to how the apocalypse came to be - and what exactly the mysterious Gyno is really up to back in the lab.
You know the scene. The dead walk, the survivors are few, and to make things worse, they're all male. In an obscure corner of Italy, zombie hunters Igor (Alex Lucchesi) and Alen (Guglielmo Favilla) provide undead test subjects for the experiments of the rather twitchy research scientist Gyno (Claudio Marmugi). Gyno's main lab-rat, however, is Alen's girlfriend Alexis (Rosella Elmi), the only female not to have been entirely 'zombified' during the Great Epidemic - and perhaps the only chance of a cure and potential future for mankind.
Trouble lies ahead when the guys discover a healthy living girl who may provide part of the answer as to how the apocalypse came to be - and what exactly the mysterious Gyno is really up to back in the lab.
- 6/2/2011
- Shadowlocked
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