Italy

Italy
Category:	Country
Locale:	Southern Europe
Points of interest:	Edolo Lazio Rome Sicily
Residents:	Italians

Italy is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia.

Italy has carved its own niche in the horror genre, by way of its giallo brand of film which evolved from earlier crime fiction and mystery pulp novels of the 1930s. As a subset of the horror genre, Italian giallo came into its own in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Luminaries of the genre include Mario Bava, Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci.

Points of Interest

Edolo

Edolo is a town and commune in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, located in the upper Camonica valley. In The Nun II a Christian novitiate committed suicide by throwing herself out of a window in Edolo in the mid 1950s. It is widely accepted that the demon known as Valak was responsible for the novitiate's demise. At this time, Valak was tracking down descendants of Saint Lucy of Syracuse in the hopes of acquiring the Eyes of St. Lucy, which had become a mystical relic of great power.

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality. During the 1950s, Rome was plagued by a giant Venusian monster referred to as Ymir, which devastated several ancient landmarks including the Roman Colosseum.

Sicily

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous region of Italy. Minor islands around it are also considered to be part of Sicily.

Films that take place in Italy

• 20 Million Miles to Earth
• Bird With the Crystal Plumage, The
• Castle Freak
• Cemetery Man
• City of the Walking Dead
• Deep Red
• Devil Conspiracy, The (Briefly)
• Devil Inside, The
• First Omen, The
• Hannibal (Partially)
• Immaculate
• Inferno
• Masque of the Red Death, The
• Merry Frolics of Satan, The (Mount Vesuvius only)
• Omen, The (2006) (Beginning only)
• Pope's Exorcist, The (Partially)
• Psychic, The
• Rite, The
• Speak No Evil (2024) (Beginning only)
• Stigmata (Partially)
• Twilight: New Moon (Partially)
• Twitch of the Death Nerve
• Van Helsing (2004) (Partially)

Comic books that take place in Italy

• Dracula Lives!

• Dracula Lives! #8 ("Black Hand, Black Death")

Characters from Italy

Character	Source

People who were born in Italy

Andrea Checchi Antonio Pierfederici Antony Carbone Arturo Dominici Asia Argento Carlo Reali Clara Bindi Claudio Argento Claudio Camaso Claudio Fragasso Danny Huston Dardano Saccheti Daria Nicolodi Dario Argento Dario Piana (unconfirmed) Dino De Laurentiis Ennio De Concini Enrico Olivieri Frank Puglia Filippo Ottoni Floria Sigismondi Gabriella Martinelli Germana Dominici Giovanni Nuvoletti Guglielmo Garroni Guido Boccaccini Ida Galli Isa Miranda Ivo Garrani Jenny Tamburi Laura Betti Leopoldo Trieste Lucio Fulci Lucretia Love Luigi Pistilli Marcello Coscia (unconfirmed) Mario Bava Mario Passante Mario Serandrei Massimo De Rita Michele Soavi Monica Bellucci Nerio Bernardi Nicholas Musuraca Nicoletta Elmi Pino Donaggio Renato Cestiè Roberto Gianviti Renato Terra Roberta Orlandi Roberto Nicolosi Romano Albani Rose McGowan Salvatore Argento Stefano Caselli Stelvio Cipriani Ubaldo Terzano Valentina Cervi Vince Colletta

People who died in Italy

Andrea Checchi Antonio Pierfederici Arturo Dominici Chris Avram Claudio Camaso Ennio De Concini Giovanni Nuvoletti Isa Miranda Jenny Tamburi John Carradine Laura Betti Leopoldo Trieste Lucio Fulci Luigi Pistilli Mac Ahlberg Mario Bava Mario Serandrei Nerio Bernardi Roberto Nicolosi Salvatore Argento Tino Bianchi

Notes

• The 1986 dark fantasy film Troll was shot entirely in Stabilimenti Cinematografici Pontini, Rome, Italy.

External Links

• Italy at Wikipedia
• Italy at Headhunter's Holosuite

References

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