House of Shadows
Directed by Rossella De Venuto
In Rossella De Venuto’s supernatural thriller House of Shadows, Irish artist Megan travels to Apulia and confronts the secrets hidden inside her husband’s ancestral home. The suspended heat of the early afternoon—when local tradition says the shadows of the dead return among the living—turns light and silence into a threat. As Makeup Designer and Special Makeup Effects Artist, Dalia Colli creates faces and presences that belong to the same Mediterranean Gothic world. Makeup keeps the everyday dimension believable while giving physical weight to the film’s incursions of horror, using atmosphere, texture and continuity to deepen the mystery without revealing it too soon.