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12 November 2010

Topless ladies and coffins. Only in Italy.

Italy is a very strange place. Porn stars run for parliament and Berlusconi owns all the Parmesan cheese. But just when you think it couldn't get any stranger, you come across a coffin manufacturer who uses topless women in a calendar to promote its products.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the foxy funeral females of Cofani Funebri... (do visit their website - it has a dancing skeleton!)

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Actually, this isn't all that strange. Italian counter culture has often married the macabre and the erotic, and this calendar channels films like Dario Argento's Suspiria and the legendary Vampyros Lesbos (which has the funkiest of funky exploitation flick soundtracks). 

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