Villa Scott
Villa Scott is a Liberty-style villa at corso Giovanni Lanza 57, in the Borgo Po district, at the foot of the hill of Turin. It was designed in the early twentieth century by engineer Pietro Fenoglio for Alfonso Scott, managing director of a now-defunct car manufacturer.[1]
The boarding school
After Alfonso Scott's death the villa became a girls' boarding school, Villa Fatima, run by nuns.[1] In 1975 it was still a girls' boarding school.[2]
«Deep Red»
Dario Argento chose it for some scenes of «Deep Red» («Profondo rosso», 1975): it is the «villa of the screaming child», where the protagonist Marc discovers under the plaster the drawing that reveals the murderer.[2][3] According to the director's own account, to free the villa during filming he offered the nuns a holiday in Rimini.[1]
Today
Bought and restored in the early 2000s, it is private property and cannot be visited; it can be seen from the outside.[1]
Sources
- Villa Scott — Italia.it – Ministero del Turismo
- Le location di Profondo Rosso, il capolavoro di Dario Argento — SiViaggia, 10 March 2025
- Profondo rosso — Italy for Movies