Paranormal Film The Wicked Gift Announces Italian Cinema Release Date

It was announced at the Italian Horror Show of Latina that Roberto D’Antona’s psychological horror film The Wicked starring Alice Viganò, David White, Mirko D’Antona, Andrea Milan and Michael Segal will hit Italian theaters on December 6th. The official trailer was revealed at the event which you can find below.

Synopsis:

Ethan is a young designer, shy and quiet who has suffered of insomnia for many years due to his terrible nightmares. Since he can’t solve his problem not even with the help of the therapy, Ethan convinces himself of having a personality disorder, but thanks to his best friend and to a Medium he will face a long journey that will lead him to the conciousness that his nightmares conceal something darker and far more sinister than he could ever imagine.

After the international success of the TV show “The Reaping” – purchasable online on DVD and Blu-ray – that has received numerous positive reviews from critics and wins at various festivals around the world, D’Antona arrives in cinema with an ambitious project, co-produced and distributed by Movie Planet Group. The Wicked lends itself to mainstream distribution thanks to its photography and the fact that it was directed in a way similar to the typical international trend, very different from the Italian classical horror movies.

The film was also written by D’Antona and produced by Alessandro Rossi, Annamaria Lorusso and Roberto D’Antona.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTES

Two things have ever frightened me: nightmares and ghosts. So I always promised myself that my first movie would have been about these topics. There are so many horror movies about ghosts, premonitions and nightmares and today it’s awfully difficult to create something 100% original, therefore when me and Annamaria Lorusso thought about the plot of this movie, we decided not to create a pure horror story but rather a psychological thriller mixed to other movie genres.

Before writing the screenplay, I was conscious that this kind of movie should have been creepy and terrifying, so I watched some movies in order to study, analyze and focus on what could make it

very disturbing.

I watched many great classic movies such as Evil Dead and Bram Stoker’s Dracula and some more recent movies like The Conjuring, Insidious and The Witch in order to put in the movie my own style and to show the audience my worst fears and phobias like losing my teeth, dying in my dreams, being scared to be alone in my house at night, hoping that nothing, nor someone or something “not

earthly”, is hiding behind me and most of all, the fear that my nightmares come true when I wake up.

Therefore, I can truly say that the frightening scenes in the movie refer to something that can really happen to me or that could scare me to death.

As for the cast, I chose some great talent able to easily convey the sense of fear, of friendship, of consciousness and above all that were able to comfort not only Ethan but even the audience. I didn’t want a cast that played in a perfect diction or with a striking curriculum, but I wanted the whole cast to be able to act natural and convey to the audience the emotions of their characters.

In the soundtrack that I planned with the composer Aurora Rochez, one can find shrill violin sounds in order to give an uneasy feeling to the audience, the piano music and some choirs in order to

create terror and fear. The amazing soundtracks of The Witch, Insidious and The Sixth Sense really inspired us. During the sweeter and peaceful scenes, we wanted to use our lovely 80’s sound in order to relax the audience. I think that Rochez did a great job because she was able to create and mix the feeling of unease, drama and melancholia I wanted in this movie.

When I was a kid, I had my first horror experience by watching “IT”, the short series, that really terrified me. When I grew up, I strongly loved and appreciated the horror movies (and more) of Sam Raimi, John Carpenter and the eastern ghost movies. I would like the public to watch my movie as an intriguing and disturbing story I did in old-school way , without digital effects in the scary scenes, but with ghosts played by actors and real situations. It means a lot to me to know that horror movie fans could appreciate and see this movie as a new life of Italian horror movies. I hope they could see the love and the passion of all team in creating this movie.







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