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Spaghetti Nightmares
''Spaghetti Nightmares'' is a reference book on Italian horror films by Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta. The book consists mainly of interviews (translated into English) with major genre icons. The book was published in 1996. List of persons interviewed * Fabrizio De Angelis * Claudio Argento * Dario Argento * Lamberto Bava * Mario Caiano * Stefania Casini * Luigi Cozzi * Armando Crispino * Ruggero Deodato * Mimsy Farmer * Franco Ferrini * Claudio Fragasso * Lucio Fulci * Umberto Lenzi * Antonio Margheriti * Aristide Massaccessi * Luigi Montefiori (aka George Eastman) * Daria Nicolodi * Giannetto de Rossi * Dardano Sacchetti * Tom Savini * Romano Scavolini * Michele Soavi * Terence Stamp * David Warbeck * Bernardino Zapponi Bernardino Zapponi (4 September 1927 – 11 February 2000) was an Italian novelist and screenwriter best known for his films written in collaboration with Federico Fellini. Biography Zapponi was born in Rome in 1927. He began his literary ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Culture
Italy is considered one of the birthplaces of Western civilization and a cultural superpower. Italian culture is the culture of the Italians, a Romance ethnic group, and is incredibly diverse spanning the entirety of the Italian peninsula and the islands of Sardinia and Sicily. Italy has been the starting point of phenomena of international impact such as the Roman Republic, Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic Church, the Maritime republics, Romanesque art, Scholasticism, the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, Mannerism, the Scientific revolution, the Baroque, Neoclassicism, the Risorgimento, the Futurism, Fascism, and European integration. Historical background Italy was home to many well-known and influential civilizations, including Italic peoples such as the Etruscans, the Samnites and the Romans, while also hosting colonies from important foreign civilizations like the Phoenicians and the Greeks. Etruscan and Samnite cultures flourished in Italy before the emerge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Lenzi
Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. A fan of film since young age, Lenzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made his first film in 1958 which went unreleased, while his official debut happened in 1961 with ''Queen of the Seas''. Lenzi's films of the 1960s followed popular trends of the era, which led to him directing several spy and erotic thriller films. He followed in suit in the 1970s making ''giallo'' films, crime films and making the first Italian cannibal film with ''Man from the Deep River''. He continued making films up until the 1990s and later worked as a novelist writing a series of murder mysteries. Biography Early life Umberto Lenzi was born on 6 August 1931 in the Massa Marittima province of Italy. Lenzi was a film enthusiast as early as grade school. While studying law, Lenzi also created film fan clubs. Lenzi eventually put off studying law and began pursuing the technic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Non-fiction Books
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people 1996 Mount Everest disaster, die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly (sheep), Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur massacre (Australia), Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Gun laws of Australia, Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was Aircraft hijacking, hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardino Zapponi
Bernardino Zapponi (4 September 1927 – 11 February 2000) was an Italian novelist and screenwriter best known for his films written in collaboration with Federico Fellini. Biography Zapponi was born in Rome in 1927. He began his literary career writing for ''Orlando'' and ''Marc'Aurelio'', two well-established Italian satirical magazines, later branching out into radio and television. An expert in literary innovation, Zapponi founded the cult magazine ''Il Delatore'' (''The Spy''), and published four novels including ''Gobal'', a famous collection of short stories, as well as songs, plays and theatre sketches. Revered for his work with Fellini, he also collaborated on films by Dino Risi and co-wrote Dario Argento's ''Deep Red''. Fellini, Poe and ''Toby Dammit'' Zapponi first met Fellini in July 1967 during pre-production of the "Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Toby Dammit" segment in the omnibus film, ''Histoires extraordinaires'' after Fellini had abandoned his ambitious pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Warbeck
David Warbeck (born David Mitchell; 17 November 1941 – 23 July 1997) was a New Zealand actor and model best known for his roles in European exploitation and horror films. A native of Christchurch, New Zealand, Warbeck became involved in local theatre there, which led to him receiving a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1965. After attending for four terms, Warbeck dropped out and began working as a model. He made his feature film debut in John Hough's '' Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood'' (1969), reuniting with the director again for 1971's ''Twins of Evil''. Throughout the 1970s, Warbeck appeared in numerous international exploitation films, including '' A Fistful of Dynamite'' (1971) and ''Black Snake'' (1974), which established him as a niche action film star. In 1981, Warbeck starred in two films for Italian horror director Lucio Fulci: '' The Black Cat'' and '' The Beyond''. He went on to appear in several independent and exploitatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Stamp
Terence Henry Stamp (born 22 July 1938) is an English actor. Stamp is known for his sophisticated villain roles. He was named by ''Empire Magazine'' as one of the 100 Sexiest Film Stars of All Time in 1995. He has received various accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a Silver Bear as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards. After training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, he started his acting career in 1962. He was called the "master of the brooding silence" by ''The Guardian''. His performance in the title role of '' Billy Budd'', his film debut, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer. Associated with the Swinging London scene of the 1960s – during which time he was in high-profile relationships with actress Julie Christie and supermodel Jean Shrimpton – Stamp was among the subjects photographed by David Bailey for a set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Soavi
Michele Soavi, sometimes known as Michael Soavi (born 3 July 1957)Baldassarre, Angela (1999) "The Great Dictators: Interviews with Filmmakers of Italian Descent", Guernica Editions, is an Italian filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter best known for his work in the horror film genre, working alongside directors like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. Career Michele Soavi was born in Milan. As a teenager, Soavi enrolled in creative arts classes and worked at becoming an actor. He took acting lessons at Milan's Fersen Studios, and also served as a cameraman.Buchanan, JasonAllmovie Biography, allmovie.com, Macrovision Corporation Soavi's directorial career began when he was offered an assistant director job by Marco Modugno after appearing as an extra in Modugno's 1979 film ''Bambule''. Soavi continued to act in films such as '' Alien 2: On Earth'' and Lucio Fulci's ''City of the Living Dead'', and served as an assistant director to Aristide Massacessi (Joe D'Amato), and occasionally app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romano Scavolini
Romano Scavolini (born 18 June 1940) is an Italian film director and the younger brother of screenwriter Sauro Scavolini. Career He has been directing since the 1960s. Most of his films are shot independently and with an experimental style. His best known horror films are ''Nightmare'' (1981), a gruesome horror film that was banned as a video nasty in the UK, and his 1972 ''A White Dress for Marialé''. Filmography * ''The Devastated One'' (''I devastati'') – 1958/1959 * ''Blind Fly (A mosca cieca)'' (''Ricordati di Haron'') – 1966 * ''The Dress Rehearsal'' (''La prova generale'') – 1968 * ''Entonce'' – 1969 * ' (''Lo stato d'assedio'') (also known as ''State of Siege'' – ''Besieged'') – 1969 * ''The long march'' (''La lunga marcia'') * ''A White Dress for Marialé ''Spirits of Death'' ( it, Un bianco vestito per Marialé/ translation: ''A White Dress for Mariale'') is a 1972 Italian film directed by Romano Scavolini and starring Ida Galli, Ivan Rassimov and Luigi Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Savini
Thomas Vincent Savini (born November 3, 1946) is an American prosthetic makeup artist, actor, stunt performer and film director. He is known for his makeup and special effects work on many films directed by George A. Romero, including ''Martin'', '' Dawn of the Dead'', ''Day of the Dead'', ''Creepshow'' and '' Monkey Shines''; he also created the special effects and makeup for many cult classics like '' Friday the 13th'' (parts I and IV), ''Maniac'', '' The Burning'', '' The Prowler'' and ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2''. Savini directed ''Night of the Living Dead'', the 1990 remake of Romero's 1968 ''Night of the Living Dead''; his other directing work includes three episodes of the TV show ''Tales from the Darkside'' and one segment in ''The Theatre Bizarre''. As an actor and stuntman, he has appeared in films such as ''Martin'', '' Dawn of the Dead'', ''Knightriders'', ''From Dusk till Dawn'', ''Planet Terror'', ''Machete'', ''Django Unchained'' and ''Machete Kills''. Early ... [...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] |
Giannetto De Rossi
Giannetto De Rossi (8 August 1942 – 11 April 2021) was an Italian makeup and special effects artist for motion pictures. His career included work for several high-profile directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, and David Lynch; as well as collaborations with cult filmmakers Lucio Fulci and Alexandre Aja. He was known particularly for his highly-detailed and realistic prosthetic appliances, most visible in his horror output. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Effects for the Oscar-winning ''The Last Emperor'' (1987). Early career One of his first special FX roles was as make-up artist for Joe D'Amato, whose film ''Emanuelle in America'' required detailed special FX for the notorious snuff film sequences. The gruesome effects produced by De Rossi, which included a woman's breasts being hacked off and multiple floggings, were so convincing that many thought them real snuff film scenes, and one actress comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daria Nicolodi
Daria Nicolodi (19 June 1950 – 26 November 2020) was an Italian television and film actress and screenwriter. Early life and career Daria Nicolodi was born in Florence on 19 June 1950. Her father was a Florentine lawyer and her mother, Fulvia, was a scholar of ancient languages. Her maternal grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella. She moved to Rome in the late 1960s. In 1970, she participated in the television variety show ''Babau'' in four episodes written by Paolo Poli and Ida Omboni and directed by Vito Molinari. Because of program content deemed outrageous at the time, the show was shelved and only broadcast by RAI six years later. In the early 1970s, Nicolodi had some significant work in the cinema and theater under the guidance of Elio Petri. Also in the same year, Nicolodi participated in some TV productions, such as the serial story ''Nicotera'', ''Without a Trace'' with Rossano Brazzi (1972), ''Portrait of a Veiled Woman'' with Nino Castelnuovo (1975), the dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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