{{Infobox film | name = Il medium | image = Il-medium-poster.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --> | director = Silvio Amadio | producer = | screenplay = {{plainlist|*Claudio Fragasso * Tonino Cucca * Silvio Amadio{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=43}}}} | story = Silvio Amadio{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=43}} | based_on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} --> | starring = {{plainlist|* Guido Mannari * Sherry Buchannan}} | music = Roberto Pregadio{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=43}} | cinematography = Maurizio Salvatore{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=43}} | editing = Silvio Amadio{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=43}} | studio = Ars Nova Cooperativa S.r.l.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}} | distributor = <!-- or: | distributors = --> | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1980|3|10|Italy}} | runtime = 89 minutes{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=43}} | country = Italy{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}} | language = | budget = | gross = }} '''''Il medium''''' ({{translation|The Medium}}) is a 1980 Italian film directed by Silvio Amadio.

==Production== ''Il medium'' was developed due to director Silvio Amadio's interest in the occult, which he learned through his friend Demofilo Fidani.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}} Fidani was a filmmaker who prominently worked on low budget Italian Westerns, and by the 1980s had become more known for his work in esoterism, including writing some novels on the subject.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}} Amadio and Fidani had discussed their mutual interest in the topic since the 1970s.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}}

Among the screenwriters was Claudio Fragasso, who said he was approached by the director along with a psychic medium who told him that "the dead had told them [he] should write this script."{{sfn|Berger|1997|p=57}} Fragasso also stated that this was the first script he had worked on, even before ''Meet Him and Die''.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}} A film scenario with the same title was in Rome SIAE offices that were dated from October 17, 1975.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}} Filming on ''Il medium'' took place much later, starting on May 7, 1979.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}} Among the cast was Martine Brochard, who had little recollection about the making of the film, declaring "I only remember that it all seemed very homemade, and I had a very cold relationship with Amadio. I did my stuff and 'Thanks and goodbye'."{{sfn|Ippoliti|Norcini|2004|p=36}}

==Style== Film historian and critic Roberto Curti stated that despite the film often being labelled a horror film, it was a supernatural drama that involved ghosts, and some such gothic stapes such as a haunted house.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}} Curti noted the film's horrific bits are limited to a dog attack, a burning painting that emits laughter and voices recorded from unknown sources on an audio tape.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=45}}

==Release== ''Il medium'' was distributed regionally in Italy on 10 March 1980.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}} The film grossed a total of 15 million Italian lire domestically on its release.{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=44}}

== References == ===Footnotes=== {{reflist}}

===Sources=== {{Refbegin}} * {{cite magazine| last=Berger|first=Howard|title=Claudio Fragasso's Gore Wars|magazine=Fangoria|date=June 1997|issue=163}} * {{cite book | last= Curti | first= Roberto | title= Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980–1989 |publisher= McFarland |year= 2019 |isbn= 978-1476672434}} * {{cite magazine| last1=Ippoliti|first1=Stefano|last2=Norcini|first2=Matteo|year=2004|title=Una favola chiamata cinema. Intervista a Martine Brochard|magazine=Cine70 e dintorni|issue=6}} {{Refend}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0176980}}

{{Claudio Fragasso}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Medium}} Category:1980 films Category:Supernatural drama films Category:Italian drama films Category:1980 Italian films