Directed by:
Federico ZampaglioneScreenplay:
Federico ZampaglioneCinematography:
Marco BassanoComposer:
Andrea MoscianeseCast:
Jake Muxworthy, Karina Testa, Chris Coppola, Ottaviano Blitch, Nuot Arquint, Emilio De Marchi, Gianpiero Cognoli, Matt PatresiPlots(1)
Jake Muxworthy plays a young soldier who embarks on a mountain-biking trip, walks into a cafe and meets the love of his life (Karina Testa). Unfortunately, he also meets a pair of violent hunters who make him their prey after he defends the young woman from their sleazy advances. But what appears at first to be a vicious cat-and-mouse game set in treacherous terrain turns into a full-blown nightmare when these adversaries become the captives of a mountain dweller whose depraved plans for them soon become all too apparent. Both a relentless horror film and a searing account of the brutal after-effects of war, "Shadow" is a scream-inducing descent into an abyss of unspeakable terror. (official distributor synopsis)
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A renaissance of Italian horror? Yes and no. If Zampaglione wanted to return his homeland to the days of glory, he should have made a Giallo, i.e. a horror film with demons, cannibals or zombies, but not hixploitation, a mostly American sub-genre that has successfully acclimatised in the last few years, even in (Southern) Europe, but it’s nevertheless unsuitable for the Italian poetics of silly scripts, weirdly chosen music and uncausal violence. Shadow is relatively well made, with a nice atmosphere in some parts, but that means nothing when someone is murdered because of a scared roe deer, the poor viewer has to watch the laziest twist in the history of cinema and the villain goes from nasty to laughable. An inconsistent, ineffective film, unfortunately.
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