With Apocalypse Tape 1990, OTX.LAB launches a new phase of experimentation in extreme horror filmmaking.
Billed as an "extreme splatterfest," the film pays tribute to the most brutal, transgressive, gory, pornographic, and sexually explicit horror cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, drawing on numerous subgenres including erotic tentacle films, cannibal cinema, zombie movies, and sci-fi splatter.
Active as a director since 2002, Paolo Del Fiol won the "Joe D'Amato Horror Festival" in 2005 with Where Am I?. His recent feature-length works include Devils Times Two and A Melty Kiss Lost in the Abyss, both already distributed internationally. The original soundtrack is composed by Antony Coia, founder and owner of the extreme labels TetroVideo and Goredrome Pictures, who previously collaborated with Paolo Del Fiol on the films Kokeshi (2013) and Neo Sekigun (2015).
With this project, Paolo Del Fiol has crafted a work destined to carve out its place in contemporary cinema. The director has created a 95-minute horror feature entirely generated through artificial intelligence, built around a complete linear narrative with protagonists, dialogue, and genuine story development, bringing to life what is currently presented as the world's first horror film made with AI.
Below are statements from Antony Coia, founder of OTX.LAB, on the future of artificial intelligence in extreme horror:
"My profound love for horror cinema—which has haunted my dreams since the 1980s—guided me toward this choice, controversial as it may be. OTX.LAB represents a parallel path: we have always supported and will continue to support traditional cinema. From today onward, alongside this commitment, we are embarking on a new direction. I love extreme horror, but today it's impossible to ignore a certain creative stagnation: too often everything feels derivative, predictable, trapped by exhausted formulas. Over the past twenty years, the genre has continued to push into violence, but rarely into imagination. Today, artificial intelligence represents a tool capable of reopening doors that have remained closed for far too long, allowing us to explore visual and narrative territories that traditional horror cinema struggles to reach. We are still dealing with immature technology, imperfect and full of limitations, but already concretely usable and endowed with enormous potential. For me, AI must be a creative tool, never a shortcut".
OTX.LAB
OTX.LAB is the neural division of OutroNox, dedicated to research, experimentation, and production of new forms of horror through artificial intelligence.
The project was born with the goal of expanding the expressive possibilities of horror cinema, transcending the production limits of the traditional model. From this perspective, artificial intelligence is used as a creative tool to experiment with new visual and narrative solutions and give form to imageries that would have been difficult to realize just a few years ago, without positioning itself as an alternative to traditional cinema.
We at HorrorCult also present two exclusive frames from the project, urging you to follow us for further updates on this captivating endeavor.
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