Tormento - I rintocchi di Pietrascura

Language: Italian

Genre: Historical, Horror, Gothic

Format: one shot

Location: Villaggio delle Stelle, Lusernetta (TO)

Tormento - I rintocchi di Pietrascura

05/07/2024 - 07/07/2024

Genre: Historical, Horror, Gothic

Format: one shot

Location: Villaggio delle Stelle, Lusernetta (TO)

Abstract

An isolated village among mountains and forests where, beneath a veneer of apparent and rational respectability, it is the dark side of human passions that governs actions and motivations: simple hopes as well as great ambitions, petty meanness alongside profound abjection. The embers smolder beneath the coal. The vats ferment in the cellars. Beneath the surface lie laughter and tears. Something is ready to explode.

Set in an isolated village in the early nineteenth century, Tormento is inspired by classics of the Gothic and Romantic genres and by games such as My Life with Master and Lupus.

In Pietrascura, the village’s ordinary daily life is in fact a veil of hypocrisy that conceals dark secrets and inner turmoil. There are Masters and Servants, local notables and common folk, yet everyone hides something; no one can be sure that their secrets are truly safe, and no one is truly free - sooner or later, everyone will have to answer to someone.

There is no soul in Pietrascura that is not tormented by Fear, whether it is fear of the unknown, of others, or of one’s own secrets.

To heighten this atmosphere, the event was held making extensive use of nighttime hours, while its various phases were marked by the ominous tolling of the clock.