‘This house has memories…’
The Salamander House is a 2022 Italian horror film about a writer that rents a remote house that is being used for satanic cult ceremonies.
Distribution and release:
Directed by Marco Cerilli – making his feature directorial debut – from a screenplay co-written with Luigi Pastore based on the latter’s storyline.
The Lupa Film production stars Marco Aceti, Corinna Coroneo, Marco Cerilli, Stella Nicole, Chiara Pavoni and Fiorella Franco.
Plot:
A famous Italian-American writer of horror novels goes to Puglia to spend a few days in an old house on the coast. The real estate agent tries to convince the writer to buy it, but he only wants to spend a few days there hoping to find inspiration. The history of the house begins to manifest itself with hallucinations, which the writer notes as ideas for his novel.
He then meets some locals who tell him the story of a cult, that came to the house in the 1970s to build a temple dedicated to Satan. The writer will very soon discover that the cult is still there and that he is only a tool driven by evil…
Cast and characters (in credits order):
Marco Aceti … Robert Santana
Corinna Coroneo … Sara Kepfer
Marco Cerilli … Vassago
Stella Nicole … Helena
Chiara Pavoni … Laura
Fiorella Franco … Vivian
Matteo Pastore … Ghost Hunter
Franco Nacca … Luca
Filming locations:
Taranto, Apulia, Italy
Technical details:
1 hour 32 minutes
Original title:
La casa del Sabba
Watch the trailer on YouTube