List of Persons Interviewed

• Fabrizio de Angelis
• Claudio Argento
  Claudio Argento
  Claudio Argento is an Italian film producer and screenwriter. Most of the titles he has produced have been the horror films directed by his older brother, Dario Argento. One major exception was Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult film Santa Sangre ; in addition to producing, Claudio Argento co-wrote the...
  
  
• Dario Argento
  Dario Argento
  Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies....
  
  
• Lamberto Bava
  Lamberto Bava
  Lamberto Bava is an Italian film director, specializing in horror and fantasy films.Bava was born in Rome, Italy, the son of cinematographer/director Mario Bava, and grandson of cameraman Eugenio Bava...
  
  
• Mario Caiano
  Mario Caiano
  Mario Caiano is an Italian film director, screenwriter and second unit director.Born in Rome, he has directed for nearly 50 films since 1961 and 27 films and TV scripts since 1954....
  
  
• Stefania Casini
  Stefania Casini
  Stefania Casini is an Italian actress and film director.-Selected filmography:- External links :*...
  
  
• Luigi Cozzi
  Luigi Cozzi
  Luigi Cozzi is an Italian movie director and screenwriter who directed mainly science fiction and horror films in the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s...
  
  
• Armando Crispino
  Armando Crispino
  Armando Crispino was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Biella, Piedmont. He directed nine films between 1966 and 1975. He also wrote for nine films between 1965 and 1975...
  
  
• Ruggero Deodato
  Ruggero Deodato
  Ruggero Deodato is an Italian film director and screen writer, best known for directing violent and gory horror films. Deodato is infamous for his 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust.- Biography :...
  
  
• Mimsy Farmer
  Mimsy Farmer
  Mimsy Farmer is an American actress. Her nickname came from a line in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; "All mimsy were the borogoves".-Career:...
  
  
• Franco Ferrini
  Franco Ferrini
  Franco Ferrini is an Italian screenwriter born on the 5 January 1944 in La Spezia. His works often fall into the genres of horror or thriller. He was one of the interviewees represented in the book Spaghetti Nightmares. He has frequently collaborated with Dario Argento...
  
  
• Claudio Fragasso
  Claudio Fragasso
  Claudio Fragasso is an Italian screenwriter and film director of mostly low-budget exploitation films.- Filmmaking history :...
  
  
• Lucio Fulci
  Lucio Fulci
  Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on gore films, including Zombie and The Beyond , although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy...
  
  
• Umberto Lenzi
  Umberto Lenzi
  Umberto Lenzi , is an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, spaghetti westerns, war movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries ....
  
  
• Antonio Margheriti
  Antonio Margheriti
  Antonio Margheriti , also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker. He was born in Rome and died in 2002 from a heart attack in Monterosi, Viterbo, near Rome at the age of 72....
  
  
• Aristide Massaccessi
  Joe D'Amato
  Joe D'Amato, was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well...
  
  
• Luigi Montefiori (aka George Eastman)
• Daria Nicolodi
  Daria Nicolodi
  Daria Nicolodi is an Italian actress and screenwriter.- Early life and career :Daria Nicolodi was born in Florence on June 19, 1950. Her father was a Florentine lawyer and her mother, Fulvia, was a scholar of ancient languages. Her maternal grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella...
  
  
• Giannetto de Rossi
• Dardano Sacchetti
  Dardano Sacchetti
  Dardano Sacchetti, born in Rome, Italy in 1944, is an Italian screenwriter best-known for his work in the horror genre.At an early age, he became hooked on films from watching the American science fiction classic Them!...
  
  
• Tom Savini
  Tom Savini
  Thomas Vincent "Tom" Savini is an American actor, stuntman, director, award-winning special effects and makeup artist. He is known for his work on the Living Dead films directed by George A. Romero, as well as Creepshow, The Burning, Friday the 13th, The Prowler, and Maniac. He directed the 1990...
  
  
• Romano Scavolini
  Romano Scavolini
  Romano Scavolini is an Italian film director.He has been directing since the 1960s. Most of his films are shot independently and with an experimental style. His best known film is Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, a gruesome horror film that was banned as a video nasty in the UK.-External links:*...
  
  
• Michele Soavi
  Michele Soavi
  Michele Soavi, sometimes known as Michael Soavi is an Italian filmmaker.-Career:Michele Soavi was born in Milan. As a teenager, Soavi enrolled in creative arts classes and developed into a talented actor. He took acting lessons at Milan's Fersen Studios, but his greatest talent was working behind...
  
  
• Terence Stamp
  Terence Stamp
  Terence Henry Stamp is an English actor. Since starting his career in 1962 he has appeared in over 60 films. His title role as Billy Budd in his film debut earned Stamp an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer.His other major roles include...
  
  
• David Warbeck
  David Warbeck
  David Warbeck was a New Zealand actor best known for his film roles in Europe.-Career and move into Italian cinema:...
  
  
• Bernardino Zapponi
  Bernardino Zapponi
  Bernardino Zapponi 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...
  
  

Publication information

• Spaghetti Nightmares by Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta, Fantasma Books, Key West, Florida, 1996.