A horror film about making a horror film that eats its own tail.
Moderation, set in Egypt, Greece and Italy, revolves around a female horror director (Maya Lubinsky) and a screenwriter (Anna De Filippi), whose latest collaboration is haunted by encounters with its 'raw material' and the escalation of conflicting desires. Faced with the disintegration of their project, the director becomes more and more drawn into conversations with the actors she has cast (Aida El Kashef, Michele Valley and Giovanni Lombardo Radice), which reflect on the way horror traverses the affective and material realities of their lives on and off screen.
Direction
Kirschner's self-aware staging blurs documentary and fiction deliberately.
Acting
Radice brings genuine Italian horror gravitas from his Fulci days.
Writing
Script interrogates itself until it becomes the very violence it depicts.
Director
Anja Kirschner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Giovanni Lombardo Radice was a staple of Lucio Fulci's goriest Italian horror films in the 1980s.
The Egypt-Greece-Italy triangle deliberately maps ancient empire onto contemporary exploitation film economies.
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