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Escalation is a 2022 Italian supernatural horror short film directed, written, produced, and edited by Christian Bachini who also stars in the film. The film premiered in the US at the FilmQuest Film Festival and ended it's festival run in the UK at the Romford Horror Film Festival in 2024. The film was co-written by Charles P. Cooper and features original music by American horror composer Alexander Taylor and Italian composer Antonio Vannucci.
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Chris, a paranoid and self-centered man, is happily avoiding all human contact, preferring to escape from reality in whatever's on TV. When a friend reaches out to him to confront him about his past promises, Chris has to decide what kind of person he is inside, or it may just eat him...alive.
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Escalation received critical acclaim in the Festival Circuit during its run in between 2022/23, collecting more than 80 awards in multiple categories at some of the World's Top Film Festivals according to MovieMaker, including a double victory at the Academy Award Qualifying "Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival" for Best Horror Short and Best Practical FX. Top genre movie news outlets such as Dread Central, Geek Tyrant and Rue Morgue celebrated "Escalation" as one of the most brutal, innovative and fun horror cinema experiences of recent times while movie magazines like Deadline and MovieMaker praised the film for the no-hold barred commitment to practical FX and high production value from the set design to cinematography and editing.
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- ^ "'Escalation' Director Christian Bachini on Shooting Through the Pain - MovieMaker Magazine". 6 April 2023.
- ^ "Horrorhound Short, "Escalation", Debuts Director's Cut at Rhode Island Film Festival". 4 November 2020.
- ^ "Shadow Gods, Creeps, and Jason Voorhees! [Indie Horror Review Roundup]". 18 May 2023.
- ^ "Short Cuts: The Short Horror Review Roundup for March 2023". 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Horror-On-Sea 2023 Film Festival – 'ESCALATION' (2021) – Movie Review". 9 February 2023.
- ^ "Horrorhound Film Festival Review: Escalation (2021)". 4 November 2020.
- ^ "ESCALATION Serves up Bloody Mayhem and Sharp Work". 16 September 2022.
- ^ "Horror Filmmakers to Watch: Christian Bachini".
- ^ "Short Film Review - 'Escalation' [HorrorHound Film Festival '22]".
- ^ "Christian Bachini exclusive Horror-on-Sea Interview • Blazing Minds". 26 November 2022.
- ^ "CHRISTIAN BACHINI IM INTERVIEW – DIE ÄSTHETIK DER GEWALT - DEADLINE - das Filmmagazin". 19 November 2021.
- ^ "Director's Cut of Bachini's "Escalation" Coming to Rhode Island!". 19 October 2023.