Bruno Mattei
| Bruno Mattei | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Bruno Mattei 30 July 1931 Rome, Italy |
| Died | 21 May 2007 (aged 75) (brain tumor) Ostia City, Rome, Italy |
| Other names | Vincent Dawn, Pierre Le Blanc, Stefan Oblowsky, Gilbert Roussel, David Hunt, William Snyder, Jordan B. Matthews, Martin Miller, Jimmy Matheus, Michael Cardoso, Herik Montgomery, Frank Klox, David Graham |
| Years active | 1962–2007 |
Bruno Mattei (30 July 1931 – 21 May 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and editor who gained a cult following for low-budget exploitation films in many genres, from women in prison (WIP) and nunsploitation to zombie and cannibal films; most of his films were meant to shock or sicken, and featured large doses of sex and gore. He used pseudonyms, including Vincent Dawn (chosen as a nod to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead), Pierre LeBlanc, Gilbert Roussel and Michael Cardoso among others.
Born in 1931, Mattei got his start in Italian cinema by working in his film editor father's studio in 1951, editing more than 100 films between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s (a job he said he enjoyed even more than directing). In 1974, he earned his first directorial credit, directing 20 minutes of additional hardcore footage for Les Brulantes (the French version of Jesus Franco's 1969 film 99 Women). He had earlier edited Jesus Franco's Count Dracula (1969), and in 1975, he wrote the screenplay for the Joe D'Amato film Emanuelle's Revenge (a.k.a. Demon Rage) and edited Joe D'Amato's 1976 Eva Nera (Black Cobra Woman).
Mattei became a full-time director in 1977 when he made several erotic Nazi death camp films, which he followed up with a porno documentary called Sexy Night Report, and a 1980 nunsploitation film, The True Story of the Nun of Monza. It was here in 1980 that Mattei's fruitful collaboration with screenwriter Claudio Fragasso began, and the two would work together for the next ten years, a span of time generally considered to be Mattei's greatest period of productivity.
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