Claudio Fragasso
| Claudio Fragasso | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 October 1951 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Claudio Fragasso (born 2 October 1951) is an Italian screenwriter and film director of mostly low-budget exploitation films. He frequently co-wrote his scripts with his wife Rosella Drudi, and is mostly famous for his many collaborations with notorious Italian horror film director Bruno Mattei.
Fragasso has co-written (with his wife Rossella Drudi) the scripts for many horror movies that were directed by the infamous Bruno Mattei, including Zombie 3,The Other Hell, Rats: Night of Terror, Hell of the Living Dead, Robowar, The True Story of the Nun of Monza, Emanuelle Escapes from Hell, and Shocking Dark, among others. Fragasso also co-directed a few of Mattei's films with him, including The Seven Magnificent Gladiators, Zombie 3, Scalps, White Apache, The Other Hell, Hell of the Living Dead and Rats: Night of Terror. (Fragasso even essayed a few minor acting roles in some of Mattei's films; i.e. he played a cameo role as a soldier in Zombi 3.)
In 1984, Fragasso directed his debut feature, Monster Dog, starring Alice Cooper as a rock-star werewolf.
In 1988, Fragasso and Mattei were called in by the producer of Zombie 3 (Franco Gaudenzi) to finish shooting the film when the director Lucio Fulci took ill and was forced to abandon the project halfway through. The two were whisked to the Philippines where filming had been under way, and finished the shooting in a few days, while Fulci was recuperating in a hospital in Rome. Fulci was furious that the producer had Mattei & Fragasso finish the film without him, and tried unsuccessfully to have his name removed from the credits.
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