1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti disappears after hypothesizing a possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy.
Direction
Dual directors play themselves, collapsing meta-layers with commitment.
Production
Po Delta wetlands become suffocating character—moist, ancient, wrong.
Director
Roberto Leggio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The directors are actual documentary filmmakers; this remains their only fiction credit, making the 'found footage' premise weirdly autobiographical.
The Po Delta's actual folklore includes 'benandanti'—night-flying witches—which Lovecraft eerily echoed without knowing. The film weaponizes this coincidence.
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