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Directed by | Michele Soavi |
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Cinematography | Renato Tafuri[1] |
Edited by | Franco Fraticelli[1] |
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Distributed by | Cecchi Gori |
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Running time | 100 minutes[2] |
Country | Italy[1] |
Languages | Italian Hungarian Latin |
Box office | 1.926 billion Italian lire[2] |
The Church (Italian: La Chiesa) is a 1989 Italian supernatural horror film[3] co-written and directed by Michele Soavi, and produced by Dario Argento with Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori. It stars Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Barbara Cupisti, Asia Argento, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. and Giovanni Lombardo Radice.
The Church was originally conceived as the third installment in the Dèmoni series, following Demons (1985) and Demons 2 (1986). Soavi insisted the film to be distant from the series, wanting it to be more sophisticated in style, and re-wrote the screenplay to remove any connection to the series. Filming was primarily shot in the Matthias Church and St. Elizabeth church both in Budapest, with additional footage filmed at studio sets in Rome and in downtown Hamburg, Germany.