The Book is a 2014 Italian anthology film that pulls together twelve legendary names from the worlds of spaghetti horror, exploitation, crime and western cinema to showcase their own personal vision of Rome.
The directors are: Lamberto Bava (Demons), Antonio Bido (Bloodstained Shadow), Enzo G. Castellari (Inglorious Bastards), Luigi Cozzi (Star Crash), Alberto de Martino (The Antichrist), Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust), Aldo Lado (Late Night Trains), Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare City), Edoardo Margheriti (Black Cobra), Sergio Martino (Torso), Sergio Stivaletti (The Wax Mask) and Tonino Valerii (My Name is Nobody). The screenplay is by Dardano Sacchetti, who wrote The Beyond and Demons, while the poster art is by Enzo Sciotti, who provided most of the iconic artwork for Italian horror movies of the early 1980s. Oh, and there’s a new score by Goblin and Claudio Simonetti.
Horrorpedia contributor and Strange Things Are Happening website owner David Flint obverses: ‘Of course, the cynic might point out that the glory days for these filmmakers was a long time ago, but who is to say that, given the opportunity and the freedom, that they can’t still pull something interesting out of the bag? Hell, I’m vaguely excited about the possibilities of this.’
The Book has an indiegogo.com crowd funding page.
