Domiziano Cristopharo
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 22, 1974
- Birthplace
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
Domiziano Cristopharo, an independent film director from Rome, has been the first Italian director in years to try and revive the erotic/horror film genre. Four years ago he obtained enormous audience and critical acclaim with HOUSE OF FLESH MANNEQUINS (starring international horror actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice). HOUSE OF FLESH MANNEQUINS won six international awards and eight international film festival presentations. Domiziano Cristopharo has frequently been compared as a perfect mix between Fellini and Dario Argento: Cristopharo's aesthetic has a vintage quality: he is simultaneously extreme in style, shocking, and yet classic. To those who define him "pornographic," he responds by quoting Picasso: "Art is never chaste and we should keep her away from pure ignorants. It it were chaste, it wouldn't be art at all." In his career he worked also with/for: Carlo De Mejo (City of living Dead), Maria Rosaria Omaggio (Nightmare city), Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust), Frank Laloggia (Lady in white), Venantino Venantini (Ladyhawke), Giovanni Lombardo Radice/John Morghen (Cannibal Ferox), Mariagrazia Cucinotta (El dia de la bestia), Stefano Cassetti (Roberto Succo), Romano Scavolini (Nightmare in a damaged Brain) Director 2014 E.N.D. (episode REVENIENS) 2014 THE TRANSPARENT WOMAN 2014 P.O.E. 3 "Pieces Of Eldritch" 2014 DOLL SYNDROME 2013 PHANTASMAGORIA (episode "a snake with a steel tongue") 2012 LOVECRAFT'S 2 Left Arms 2012 Red Krokodil 2012 BELLEROFONTE 2012 P.O.E. 2 Project of Evil (episode "TARR&FETHER) 2011 SHOCK - My Abstraction of Death 2011 P.O.E. Poetry of Eerie (episode "Maelzel's Chess-Automaton") 2010 HYDE'S SECRET NIGHTMARE 2010 BLOODY SIN - Oltretomba 2009 The MUSEUM of WONDERS 2008 HOUSE of Flesh Mannequins
Filmography

XXX Darknet: Red Lips TBA
Director

HOUSE 6 TBA
Director of Photography, Director

Unburied Tales TBA
Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay

ABORTUM TBA
Presenter
- Toe Tags
Toe Tags 2026
Producer, Director

3 2026
as Guy 1

Analogies 2026
Director
- Eros & ARThanatos
Eros & ARThanatos 2025
Director, Writer

GORE TAPES 2024
Director

Phallacies 2024
Actor, Director, Writer

Flammentod 2024
Director

eROTik 2: The Beyond 2024
Screenplay, Editor, Cinematography, Producer

4 Halloween 2023
Director

Justine 2023
Producer

Trypophobic Possession 2023
Producer

Echoes From The Grave 2022
Director, Idea, Writer, Story, Screenplay

Eldorado 2022
Director

What Have You Done, Daniel? 2022
Director

Confessions of a Necrophile Girl 2021
Director

61: Scorecard Killer 2021
Director, Cinematography, Writer

Jack the St. Ripper 2021
Executive Producer, Director of Photography, First Assistant Director, Screenplay

La perdición 2021
Director

Not for the Faint of Heart 2021
as Himself

Vore Gore 2021
Director, Cinematography

Blue Sunset 2021
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography

Nightmare Symphony 2020
Editor, Director

7 Sins 2020
Director

XXX: Dark Web 2020
Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer, Editor, Cinematography, Idea, Story, Screenplay

The House Guest 2020
as Postman, Producer, Director of Photography, Director

Tales to Tell in the Dark 2020
Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography

The Obsessed 2019
Director of Photography, Writer, Editor, Producer, Director

Beyond Horror: The History and Sub-Culture of Red Films 2019
as Self

Ill: Final Contagium 2019
Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Cinematography, Special Effects Makeup Artist

Just a Child 2019
Producer, Cinematography, Special Effects

Penny Pinchers 2: Scenes from the Underground 2018
as Interviewee

eROTik 2018
Director, Director of Photography, Cinematography, Visual Effects

A Taste of Phobia 2018
Director

Deep Web XXX 2018
Director

Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty 2017
Director

POE 4: The Black Cat 2017
Director

Xpiation 2017
Director, Producer, Cinematography

Torment 2017
Producer, Screenplay

American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice 2017
Producer

Dark Waves 2016
Director, Cinematography
- House of the Tempest
House of the Tempest 2016
Director

Virus: Extreme Contamination 2016
Director, Writer

Scarecrowd: The Musk 2016
Assistant Director, Executive Producer

Il guardiano del ghiaccio 2016
Special Effects Makeup Artist

Reveries of a Solitary Walker 2015
as Edgar Bacci

E.N.D. - The Movie 2015
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer

Poern 2015
Director

The Transparent Woman 2015
Director, Producer, Cinematography, Editor

Phantasmagoria 2014
Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematography, Editor

P.O.E. Pieces of Eldritch (P.O.E. 3) 2014
Director

Doll Syndrome 2014
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Producer

Red Krokodil 2014
Director of Photography, Producer, Director, Cinematography

H.P. Lovecraft: Two Left Arms 2014
Idea, Director of Photography, Special Effects Makeup Artist, Director

Shock: My Abstraction Of Death 2013
Director, Producer, Cinematography

P.O.E. : Project of Evil 2012
Director, Producer

Hyde's Secret Nightmare 2012
Actor, Story, Director, Producer, Cinematography

Bloody Sin: Abonimations of the Third Reich 2011
Director, Writer, Producer

P.O.E. Poetry of Eerie 2011
Director

The Museum Of Wonders 2010
Director

House of Flesh Mannequins 2009
Director, Screenplay
Credits from TMDB.