Veteran actress Catherine Spaak - star of Italian classics like Dino Risi's
The Easy Life and Dario Argento's
The Cat O' Nine Tails - will star in a new gore movie,
The Thousand And One Deaths (
Le Mille e Una Morte) directed by Elisabetta Marchetti. The story is about a horror film-maker who decides to explore the world of snuff movies, with real torture and death. Spaak will play the mother of the protagonist while the legendary Sergio Stivaletti - who worked with all the major genre directors of Italy, from Lamberto Bava to Michele Soavi, Dario Argento and Sergio Martino - will take care of the bloody special effects.