# Il medium

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{{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](/source/Silvio_Amadio)
| producer       = 
| screenplay     = {{plainlist|*[Claudio Fragasso](/source/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](/source/Guido_Mannari)
* Sherry Buchannan}}
| music          = [Roberto Pregadio](/source/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         = 
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}}
'''''Il medium''''' ({{translation|The Medium}}) is a 1980 Italian film directed by [Silvio Amadio](/source/Silvio_Amadio).

==Production==
''Il medium'' was developed due to director [Silvio Amadio](/source/Silvio_Amadio)'s interest in the [occult](/source/occult), which he learned through his friend [Demofilo Fidani](/source/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](/source/Western_esotericism), 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](/source/Claudio_Fragasso), who said he was approached by the director along with a [psychic medium](/source/Mediumship) 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/horror_film), it was a supernatural drama that involved ghosts, and some such gothic stapes such as a [haunted house](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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}}

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Category:1980 films
Category:Supernatural drama films
Category:Italian drama films
Category:1980 Italian films

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