Support the SADISTIK Strip & Kill Animated Series and get Rewarded!

As many may know, Mort Todd has been developing a wild animated series based on SADISTIK, the Diabolikal Super Kriminal! Now production has begun and YOU can be involved and get rewarded!

Working with Kickstarter, Mort's company Comicfix is raising funds and if you pledge as little as $1, you get something out of it; from copies of the screenplay, comics, DVDs and original art to Executive Producer credit! Payments are handled through Amazon, so even though you're dealing with a Super-Kriminal, you know it's super legit!

Watch the animation teaser and Mort Todd's discussion of the series at Kickstarter and donate if you can. If you can't, tell your millionaire friends about it!

Perhaps most exciting is the personality who has agreed to portray the voice of Sadistik... In the weeks to come his identity will be revealed, but for now we can say it is an internationally known pop star that has the necessary raw power to play the role!

San Diego Comic-Con DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL USA Premiere!

The long-awaited USA film premiere of THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL FILM has just been scheduled at the internationally prestigious SAN DIEGO COMIC CONVENTION on Saturday, July 25, 2009!
Click on the poster below for updates and to see the movie trailer, music video and other behind the scenes information!

K is for KILLING! 3 FREE FUMETTI FILMS in Rome Apr 15!

The DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL documentary about the history of SADISTIK headlines a free screening of films based on the dark comics of the 1960s on April 15th near the historic Trevi Fountain!

There will also be a panel about the comics-film connection moderated by Stefano Coccia and Pierpaolo De Sanctis with actors from the SADISTIK photo comics including Aldo Agliata (SADISTIK himself!), Giancarlo Borrelli son of SADISTIK director Rosario Borelli), Corrado Farina (director of BABA YAGA), Vito "Italiano Tarzano" Fornari, Gabriella Giorgelli, Piero Vivarelli (director of MISTER X and SATANIK).

(The following is translated from the Italian promotion. To read in Italian click HERE)

The principal heroes in tights of the 1960s have often passed from the monochromatic world of the nero fumetto (noir comics) to the multi-colored film screen, by masters like Mario Bava, whose Danger: Diabolik is a celebration of conceptual Pop Art, or from inventive filmmakers like Umberto Lenzi (Kriminal), Fernando Cerchio (Il marchio di Kriminal) or Piero Vivarelli (Satanik). The sadism of these prototypes is followed by the eroticism of the later 60s: from the joyful pacifism of Barbarella, carried to the screens by Roger Vadim in 1967, to the more morbid and spicy Isabella, shot by Sergio Corbucci in 1969. But the story of the Italian exchanges between cinema and comics, in big part, is still to be written, investigating the syntactic connections in the second half of the sixties, crossing transversally psychedelia, exoticism, technological fascination, psychoanalysis, feminism and aesthetic sadism. Those films include the imaginative kitsch of improbable heroes masked like Superargo, Fenomenal, Flashman or Fantabulous, which serve a special function.

In order to try to define the transition of these media hybrids, particularly the most wicked one of all, SADISTIK (known in Italy as Killing), exists the documentary of SS-Sunda. His film THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL, researches not only the origin of the photo comic directed by the actor Rosary Borelli, but interviews the actors almost forty year later (from the actresses Erna Shurer and Gabriella Giorgelli, well-known for their film roles, to actor who portrayed Killing, revealing his true identity at the end), and reconsts the historical and cultural context of its origins, including interviews with expert comics connoisseurs like Roman Scavolini and Corrado Farina. It is not accidental that the before the screening of SS-Sunda's documentary is the second film of Farina, Baba Yaga, adapted from the Valentina comic of Guido Crepax, which challenged the sexual taboos of the period. And to represent the world of the neri cinefumetti (noir comic films) in which THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL lurks, comes Mister X by Piero Vivarelli, one of the darker and nihilistic titles of the vein. Program curated by Stefano Coccia and Pierpaolo De Sanctis

The films will be screened Wednesday, 15 APRIL, 2009 at CINETECA NAZIONALE - CINEMA TREVI, Vicolo del Puttarello, 25 (zona Fontana di Trevi) Roma
tel. 06.6781206, salatrevi@fondazionecsc.it

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Killer DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL Soundtrack CD Now On Sale! Listen!

The ultra-cool record label CINEDELIC has just released a CD of THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL Film Soundtrack! It features 20 killer tracks inspired by everyone's favorite masked killer from an international gang of musical marauders: EL REVERENDO M, MIRCO MARTELLI / NEUROPA and the CHARLES E. HALL BAND!

The CD features a 12 page booklet with exclusive scenes from the DSK film and photo novels. Cinedelic is an Italian label that specializes in movie scores (with a rich catalog that includes musicians like MORRICONE, ALESSANDRONI and BARDOT!) and distributes in the United States, Italy, Germany, and Japan.

Go to the DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL Soundtrack MySpace Music Page to hear some of the wild tracks from the CD and see the Film Trailer and watch the Music Video "Beware: Sadistik!" by the Charles E. Hall Band below!

Learn more about the album on Cinedelic's web page or order the album here! THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL OST CD (Catalogue number: CDCN 15) is also available from the following distributors in the US: DUSTY GROOVE, Germany: GROOVES INC, and Japan: JET SET!