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Sabrina Siani
Sabrina Siani (born Sabrina Seggiani in Rome, 1963) is an Italian film actress. She also used pseudonyms such as Sabrina Sellers and Sabrina Syan. She starred in numerous films, mostly violent cannibal films and sexy barbarian "sword-and-sandal" movies, and most of her films were made in a three-year period between the ages of 17 and 20. Siani retired from acting in 1989, at age 26. Her brief career included working with some of the most famous Italian horror film directors of the time, including Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Antonio Margheriti, Joe D'Amato, Jesús Franco and Alfonso Brescia. Selected filmography * '' Napoli... la camorra sfida, la città risponde'' (1979), Mafia film directed by Alfonso Brescia * ''La liceale al mare con l'amica di papà'' (1980) aka ''High School Girl at the Beach with Dad's Friend'' * '' Mondo Cannibale'' (1980), a.k.a. ''White Cannibal Queen'', directed by Jesús Franco * ''Cannibal Terror'' (1981), co-written by Jesús Franco. ''Cannibal Terro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannibal Terror
''Cannibal Terror'' (French title: ''Terreur Cannibale'') is a 1981 French cannibal exploitation film directed by Alain Deruelle and starring Silvia Solar, Pamela Stanford and Oliiver Mathot. Spanish filmmaker Jesús Franco was an uncredited co-writer on the film. Released at the end of the "cannibal boom", the film is a French production, unlike most other cannibal films, which were predominantly made by Italian filmmakers. The film shares footage with '' Mondo Cannibale'' directed by Jesús Franco. Both films share a number of locations, cast, and even dubbing actors. Some connections which suggest more than a mere borrowing of footage are: *Sabrina Siani Sabrina Siani (born Sabrina Seggiani in Rome, 1963) is an Italian film actress. She also used pseudonyms such as Sabrina Sellers and Sabrina Syan. She starred in numerous films, mostly violent cannibal films and sexy barbarian "sword-and-sandal" m ... is the White Cannibal Queen of ''Mondo Cannibale'' and also appears in a ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conquest (1983 Film)
''Conquest'' is a 1983 fantasy film directed by Lucio Fulci. The film plot involves Ilias (Andrea Occhipinti) a young man who battles monsters and mutants on his journey to manhood. ''Conquest'' was reviewed by both AllMovie and the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'', who noted the films low budget and derivative nature, while finding the film to be surprisingly entertaining despite its negative aspects. Plot In a mystical land, a handsome youth named Ilias embarks on a quest, leaving behind his family in his paradise home for a fog-shrouded wilderness. He receives a magic bow from his father to mark his passage into manhood. Ilias enters a strange land where small tribes are terrorized by werewolf-like creatures, acting under orders of Ocron, a nude masked female of great evil. While in a drugged state, Ocron sees a faceless youth with a magic bow who dares to attack her. Ocron sends her werewolf servants out to look for the man. A little later, a gang of Ocron's marauders tries t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Throne Of Fire (film)
''The Throne of Fire'' ( it, Il trono di fuoco) is a 1983 Italian film directed by Franco Prosperi. The film is among the '' peplums'' of the 1980s to feature a woman as the central character, along with ''Red Sonja'', '' Hundra'' and ''Barbarian Queen ''Barbarian Queen'' (also known as ''Queen of the Naked Steel'') is a 1985 American-Argentine fantasy film starring Lana Clarkson, directed by Héctor Olivera and written by Howard R. Cohen. The film premiered in April 1985 in the United States. ...''. Production Parts of ''Throne of Fire'' were shot at Bracciano in Rome with interiors shot at De Paolis Studios and Elios studios in Rome. The film reuses the village raid sequence from the 1982 film '' Barbarian Master''. Release ''The Throne of Fire'' was released on 17 June 1983 in Italy and on 5 June 1986 in the United States. Reception In his overview of 1980s action films, Daniel R. Budnik described the film as a "'' Conan'' rip-off from Italy" that was closer to "peplum fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunters Of The Golden Cobra
''Hunters of the Golden Cobra'' (Italian: ''I Cacciatori del Cobra d'Oro'') is an Italian 1982 action film starring David Warbeck. It was directed by Antonio Margheriti, and is one of several Italian imitations of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', shot in an exotic location involving the recovery of supernatural relics. Cast *David Warbeck as Bob Jackson *Almanta Suska as Julie / April *Luciano Pigozzi as Greenwater (as Alan Collins) *John Steiner as David Franks *Protacio Dee as Yamato *Rene Abadeza as Kamutri *Rosemarie Lindt as Maude Release ''Hunters of the Golden Cobra'' was released in the United States in March 1984. Critical reception Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings wrote, "the violence is a bit nastier than that of RAIDERS, and the script seems like it was thrown together without much care, but I rather like the British soldier who is paired with the hero. Still, this one is routine at best." See also * List of Italian films of 1982 A list of films produced in Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dardano Sacchetti
Dardano Sacchetti (born 1944 ) is an Italian screenwriter who often worked with Italian directors Lamberto Bava and Lucio Fulci. Screenwriting Sacchetti was born in 1944,in Italy. His first screen credit was for Dario Argento's film ''The Cat o' Nine Tails''. He predominantly worked with Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava. Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film ''La Venere d'Ille'' with his father and in .... He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s. Sacchetti stated that for his screenplays, he would only learn who the director would be a week before the film went into production. Producers such as De Angelis would come to him and ask him to write two to five lines for a film in various genres such as adventure films, westerns and pornography. Following this post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Island (1982 Film)
''Blue Island'' (Italian language, Italian title ''Due gocce d'acqua salata'') is a 1982 film directed by Luigi Russo (under the pseudonym John Wilder) and Enzo Doria, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Dardano Sacchetti. Filmed in the Seychelles, it stars Fabio Meyer, Mario Pedone and Sabrina Siani. Like the film ''Paradise (1982 film), Paradise'' of the same year, it was inspired by the success of the 1980 release ''The Blue Lagoon (1980 film), The Blue Lagoon''. Premise After an airliner crashes over the ocean, two young passengers, Bonnie (Siani) and Billy (Meyer), meet in an inflatable life raft. Apparently the only survivors, they make it to a tropical island, but soon learn that they are not entirely alone. References 1982 films Italian drama films 1980s Italian-language films Films shot in Seychelles Films set on islands 1980s English-language films 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sword Of The Barbarians
''The Sword of the Barbarians'' ( it, Sangraal, la spada di fuoco/ ''Sangraal, the Sword of Fire'') is a 1982 sword and sorcery film written and directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini and starring Peter McCoy and Sabrina Siani. The film is also known as ''Barbarian Master'' and ''Thor the Horrible''. The village raid scene in this film was re-used a year later in ''The Throne of Fire'' (1983).Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. . Plot The movie introduces Sangraal, son of king Ator, whose realm and people are destroyed by evil warlord Nantuk. Sangraal and the remainder of his people flee his wrath and begin searching for a new home. After defending some villagers from an attack by Nantuk's troops, they gladly accept the newcomers as part of their community. Their leader, Belem, even offers Sangraal to become his co-ruler. Meanwhile, the warlord - who has assumed kinghood after Ator's fall - has angered the Goddess of Fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ator L'invincibile
''Ator, the Fighting Eagle'' ( it, Ator l'invincibile; translated: "Ator the Invincible") is a 1982 Italian adventure-fantasy film directed by Joe D'Amato, and the first film to feature the character Ator (played by Miles O'Keeffe). Plot As the film opens, a baby named Ator is born with a birthmark that signals he will someday destroy the Spider Cult, which currently holds power over the land. Fearing this prophecy, the leader of the cult — High Priest of The Ancient One, Dakkar (Dakar) — attempts to kill the baby. Baby Ator's birthmark is covered up, however, and he is whisked off to a village far away where he is given to a couple to raise as their own. Years later, Ator (O'Keefe), now in love with his sister Sunya (Brown), asks his father for permission to marry her. Ator's father reveals to Ator that he is adopted, and can therefore marry Sunya if he likes. On the day of their wedding, the village is raided by the Spider Cult's soldiers and several women are taken, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Prosperi
Franco Prosperi (2 September 1926 – 17 October 2004) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. Born Francesco Prosperi in Rome, Prosperi began his career as an assistant director with Mario Bava and with whom he also wrote several screenplays. In 1966, he made his directorial debut, credited as Frank Shannon, with the thriller film, ''Tecnica di un omicidio'' and over the years he built a solid reputation as a director of crime-action films. He also occasionally directed comedies (with Lando Buzzanca or Alighiero Noschese) and, in the final stage of his career, at the beginning of the 1980s, several low-budget sword and sorcery films. Selected filmography * ' (1966) * ''Hired Killer'' (1966) * ''Every Man Is My Enemy'' (1967) * ''Ripped Off'' (1971) * ''The Funny Face of the Godfather'' (1973) (parody of ''The Godfather'') * '' Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia'' (1974) * ''Meet Him and Die'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invincible Barbarian
''Gunan, King of the Barbarians'' ( it, Gunan il guerriero) is a 1982 film directed by Franco Prosperi. Production ''Gunan, King of the Barbarians'' uses footage from ''One Million Years B.C.''. Release ''Gunan, King of the Barbarians'' was released in Italy on 9 September 1982. The film has also been released as ''The Invincible Barbarian''. As of 2016 the only available copies of ''Gunan, King of the Barbarians'' were home made DVDs sold on eBay that are sourced from pan-and-scan transfers from VHS tapes. Reception Colin Greenland reviewed ''The Invincible Barbarian'' for ''Imagine'' magazine, and stated that "What makes this Invincible Barbarian invincible? Probably the fact that everybody he comes up against is even more stupid than he is. See how long you can watch this one without giggling." From retrospective reviews, the German book ''Lexicon des Fantasy-Films'' referred to the film as a rip-off of ''Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daughter Of The Jungle (1982 Film)
''Daughter of the Jungle'' ( it, Incontro nell'ultimo paradiso/ ''Encounter in the Last Paradise'') is a 1982 Italian romantic adventure film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Sabrina Siani. Plot Ringo and Butch, young Americans who intend to explore the Dominican Republic's forest, rent a boat and venture out on a large river. Lost their way, after ending up in a rapid, they are captured by a tribe of indigenous people, who are then attacked by some adventurers in search of rubies. Ringo and Butch escape to safety by escaping with Susan, a blonde girl who grew up in the jungle since she was a child in a plane crash. Ringo then finds an old, half-destroyed helicopter, which belonged to Susan's parents, and manages to repair it. Helped the natives to chase away the violent adventurers, they leave for the United States together with Susan, with whom Butch has fallen in love, with the rubies stolen from the criminals. Cast *Sabrina Siani as Luana/Susan * Rodolfo Bigotti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
