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73’, 2013, HD, col., Italy

ZOO SCHOOL

Directed by: 

Andrea Tomaselli


Genere:

Horror
 

Languages:

It / Eng sub

 

Produced by:

Epica Film, Indyca

Contact: 

Michele Fornasero

 

Executive Producers:

Woka, Hallucigenia Entertainment, Aidìa
 

Produced with a support of:

Film Commission Torino Piemonte,

Rotary Club Settimo Torinese,

Reale Mutua Assicurazioni
 

Cast:

Gabriele Ciavarra, Raffaella Gardon,

Carlo Cusanno, Elis Karakaci,

Anna Coluccino, Luciana Maniaci,

Francesco D’amore, Renato Cravero,

Raffaella Tomellini, Lorenzo Fabbro

 

Guest star:

Natalino Balasso,

Manuela Massarenti
 

Screenplay:

Andrea Tomaselli e Sara Benedetti
 

Director of Photography:

Daniel Fazio
 

Music by:

Maria Carmela Tomaselli,

William Kilpatrick 
 

Editor:

Federico Lagna,

Cristiano Gerbino,

Lidia Ravviso
 

Sound recordist:

Vanina Chiariello
 

Production designer:

Eleonora Diana
 

Special makeup effects:

Vanessa Ferrauto
 

Costume designer:

Chiara Valentini

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It’s 2 p.m. Another day of school is over. Angelo Sabot, a special needs educational assistant who seems to be the only teacher able to understand and help students, finds himself in the middle of a nervous breakdown. He shows up at the school armed with a hammer. He starts to take his anger out on things, a decision that ends in tragedy when Sabot turns against his beloved students in a massacre without justice.

What led Sabot to act like this? What events brought him to this point? To uncover these complex answers, the storyline travels back to the beginning of the year, back into the daily life of an apparently normal school. Here we can meet a Machiavellian Headmistress whose only purpose is to cover the secrets of a rotten system full of questionable people; her sadistic helper, a child molester and professor, a perverted and creepy caretaker, and Angelo Sabot, himself trying to reclaim his life after being busted for drugs use.

Sabot reaches a breaking point. It’s 2 p.m. In this Zoo School, like animals in a cage, students, teachers and staff alike are both victims and torturers. Sabot is walking through the school with the hammer covered in blood and no one can stop his madness.

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