{{Short description|Italian film director, screenwriter and editor}} {{Dynamic a-list}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Bruno Mattei | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Bruno Mattei | birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|7|30|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Rome]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|5|21|1931|7|30|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = {{hlist|Film director|editor|screenwriter}} | years_active = 1956–2007 | spouse = | website = }} '''Bruno Mattei''' (30 July 1931 – 21 May 2007) was an Italian [[film director]], [[screenwriter]], and [[film editor|editor]] who directed [[exploitation film]]s in many genres, including [[Women in prison film|women in prison]], [[nunsploitation]], [[Zombie films|zombie]], [[Mondo film|mondo]], [[Cannibal film|cannibal]], and [[Naziploitation|Nazisploitation]] films. Mattei's films often followed popular genre trends of the era. Mattei continued work as a director primarily in the [[Philippines]] until his death in 2007, just before he was to enter production on his fifth [[Zombie]] film.
== Biography == Bruno Mattei was born on 30 July 1931 in [[Rome, Italy]].{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=210}} Mattei grew up around films as his father owned a film editing studio. He studied at the Centro Sperimentale Centrale, the national film school, and graduated in 1951.{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=210}} Mattei initially worked as a screenwriter and claimed to have worked on over 100 films as an editor, a claim that film historian Louis Paul stated was "difficult to verify".{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=210}} Some of the earliest films Mattei worked on included ''Lulu'' and ''Tua per la vita''.{{sfn|Lentz III|2008|p=241}} Early film work started in 1956 on ''Giovanni dalle Bande Nere'', after which Mattei worked on several ''[[Peplum (film genre)|peplum]]'' and [[Eurospy]] films.{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=210}}
His first film as a director was ''Armida, il Dramma di Una Sposa'' (1970),{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=210}} after which he directed ''Cuginetta...Amore Mio!'', a sexploitation film starring Rita De Simone.{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=210}} Then followed his Nazi-themed exploitation films such as ''[[SS Girls]]'' (1977) and ''KZ9 Lager di Sterminio'',{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=210}} some [[mondo documentary]] films starring [[Laura Gemser]], ''Le Notti Porno nel Mondo'' and ''Emanuelle le Porno Notti del Mondo N. 2'',{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=210}} and [[nunsploitation]] films such as ''The True Story of the Nun of Monza''{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=32}} and ''[[The Other Hell]]''.{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=211}}
Mattei continued working in various other exploitation-themed genres in the 1980s such as [[zombie films]], sex films, [[Peplum (film genre)|peplum]]s, and Vietnam War-themed productions.{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=211}}{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=212}} In 1982, Mattei filmed two "women in prison" films, ''[[Women's Prison Massacre]]'' and ''[[Violence in a Women's Prison]]''. The liner notes for the ''Women's Prison Massacre'' DVD release state, "Mattei, using the moniker Gilbert Roussel, shot ''Women's Prison Massacre'' back-to-back with his ''Violence in a Women's Prison''. It has basically the same cast, but both films are completely different."<ref>Liner Notes. Women's Prison Massacre dvd release. Distributed by Shock-O-Rama Cinema. 12/16/04.</ref>{{full citation needed|date=September 2018}}
In 1980, Mattei began collaborating with screenwriter [[Claudio Fragasso]], beginning with ''The True Story of the Nun of Monza'' (1980) and ending with a comedy called ''Three For One'' (1990).{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=32}} The two worked closely together for that ten-year period (collaborating on 15 films),{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=32}} with Fragasso occasionally assuming the role of second unit director.{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=32}}
Mattei was initially attached to direct an adaptation of ''Hercules'' from a screenplay by Ricardo Ghione.<ref name="afi-herc">{{cite web|url=http://afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=57987|publisher=[[American Film Institute]]|title=Hercules|access-date=July 25, 2017}}</ref> Principal photography was scheduled to begin May 1982 in Rome, Italy while ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' naming Fragasso as screenwriter, and [[Ennio Morricone]] as music composer and conductor.<ref name="afi-herc" /> Neither Mattei, Fragasso, or Morricone appear in onscreen credits.<ref name="afi-herc" /> ''The Hollywood Reporter'' later stated that principal photography on ''[[Hercules (1983 film)|Hercules]]'' began in August 1982 in Italy under the direction of [[Luigi Cozzi]].<ref name="afi-herc" /> Mattei later directed [[Lou Ferrigno]] in ''[[The Seven Magnificent Gladiators]]''.{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=204}})
Mattei replaced [[Lucio Fulci]] as the director of ''[[Zombi 3]]'' in the Philippines after Fulci left the project unfinished, then co-produced ''Zombie 4: After Death'' immediately afterwards with Fragasso in the director's chair, using the same sets and some of the same cast members.{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=213}} Mattei's other late-1980s films included ''[[Robowar (film)|Robowar]]''{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} and ''[[Shocking Dark - Terminator II]]''{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=75}} (which incorporated elements of other popular science fiction films of the time such as ''[[The Terminator]]'' and ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'').{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=214}} As the 1980s ended, most of Mattei's work was released direct to video or to Italian television, such as his ''Appuntamento a Trieste'', a 1987 6-hour-long Italian TV mini-series.{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=212}}{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=213}} Many of Mattei's films from the 1990s became harder to find as export releases or home video releases.{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=214}}
From 1993 onward, Mattei worked as a director almost exclusively for Italian producer Giovanni Paolucci, a working arrangement that jump-started Mattei's career after he and Fragasso had gone their own ways in 1990.{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=83}} Paolucci produced most of Mattei's later films, beginning with ''Dangerous Attraction'' and ending with Mattei's final film, ''Zombies: The Beginning''.{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=125}} Mattei continued directing films right up until his death. Mattei died in Rome, Italy, in a hospital after complications from [[brain tumour]] surgery{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=10}} on May 21, 2007, at age 75.{{sfn|Lentz III|2008|p=241}}
He is survived by a son, Dario Mattei.
==Style== Jason Buchanan described Bruno Mattei's films as "low budget, gore-drenched efforts" and that "B-movie lovers can argue his importance in the realm of film until the world ends, few will deny that his films rarely fail to entertain on terms of sleaze and gratuitous violence alone -- if that's your kind of thing".
Louis Paul, in his analysis of Italian horror film directors, stated that Mattei's career consisted of him being a "director of copy-cat movies. Whenever a film or a genre became popular, he directed his own (unsanctioned) remake or unofficial sequel."{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=214}} Daniel Budnik, an author of a book on 1980s action films, described Mattei as "no stranger to simply ripping stuff off", noting his use of [[Goblin (band)|Goblin]]'s music for ''[[Hell of the Living Dead]]'', stock footage from documentaries on South African tribes, and shark attack footage for his ''[[Cruel Jaws]]'', ultimately describing him as "the best of all possible rip-off artists [...] Bruno just really did his own thing and went his own way" which involved "ripping everyone off, but you can't have everything".{{sfn|Budnik|2017|p=233}}
Mattei used several aliases throughout his career, including Jordan B. Matthews, Jimmy Matheus, Gilbert Roussel, Axel Berger, Michael Cardoso, David Hunt, Werner Knox, Pierre Le Blanc, Stefan Oblowsky, and most famously Vincent Dawn.{{sfn|Lentz III|2008|p=241}}{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=214}}
== Selected filmography== :Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological. {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! width="15%" rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title !! width="4%" rowspan="2" scope="col" | Year!! colspan="4" scope="col" | Credited as !! width="10%" rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes !! width="1%" rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable" |{{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}} |- ! width=6% |Director!! width=6% | Writer!! width=6% |Editor!! width=6% | Other |- !scope="row"|{{sort|Pirate of the Black Hawk|''[[The Pirate of the Black Hawk]]''}} |1958 | | | |{{yes}} | Assistant film editor |{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=129}} |- !scope="row"|{{sort|Mighty Crusaders|''[[The Mighty Crusaders (film)|The Mighty Crusaders]]''}} |{{n/a}} | | | | {{yes}} |Assistant film editor |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=119}} |-
!scope="row"|{{sort|Loves of Salammbo|''[[The Loves of Salammbo]]''}} |1960 | | | |{{yes}} | Assistant film editor |{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=110}} |- !scope="row"|''Sexy'' |rowspan="3"|1962 | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=110910&_ga=2.251661705.1824766579.1497964927-1263957294.1496067898|publisher=Bifi.fr|title=Sexy|access-date=June 20, 2017|language=French}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''[[Julius Caesar Against the Pirates|Caesar Against the Pirates]]'' | | | |{{yes}} | Sound mixer |{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=30}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules]]'' | | | |{{yes}} | Sound editor |{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=56}}{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=58}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Triumph of the Ten Gladiators]]'' |rowspan="2"|1964 | | | | {{yes}} | Assistant film editor |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=179}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators]]'' | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=163}}{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=164}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell]]'' |1965 | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]|title=Agente 3.S.3, Passaporto per L'inferno|volume=33|issue=384|page=140|year=1966|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''Misión en Ginebra'' |rowspan="2"|1967 | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/film/feuer-frei-auf-frankie_96dd05a28b774d098715f4393660b839|publisher=[[Filmportal.de]]|title=Feuer frei auf Frankie|access-date=June 6, 2017|language=German}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''[[Goldface, the Fantastic Superman]]'' | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2016|p=68}} |- !scope="row"|''[[The Magnificent Tony Carrera]]'' |rowspan="2"|1968 | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/film/samtpfoetchen-dreht-sein-letztes-ding_147fc2f09efc4579af9439996f2b2866|publisher=[[Filmportal.de]]|title=Samtpfötchen dreht sein letztes Ding|access-date=June 6, 2017|language=German}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''{{Interlanguage link|Die Nichten der Frau Oberst|de|3=Die Nichten der Frau Oberst (1968)|lt=Die Nichten der Frau Oberst}}'' | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/film/die-nichten-der-frau-oberst_fe5c41abc26d4f4b9d9fadf596e9436b|publisher=[[Filmportal.de]]|title=Die Nichten der Frau Oberst|access-date=June 6, 2017|language=German}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''[[99 Women]]'' |rowspan="2"|1969 | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/film/der-heisse-tod_0e953e8f1b214f90a49a823c278a04fc|publisher=[[Filmportal.de]]|title=Der heiße Tod|access-date=June 6, 2017|language=German}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''[[Yellow: le cugine]]'' | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Howarth|2015a|p=113}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Count Dracula (1970 film)|Count Dracula]]'' |1970 | | | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/film/nachts-wenn-dracula-erwacht_37e3dd5538d64fc4b81c47a6ff48df4d|publisher=[[Filmportal.de]]|title=Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht|access-date=June 6, 2017|language=German}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''Armida, il Dramma di Una Sposa'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Emanuelle's Revenge]]'' |1975 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | |uncredited co-director<ref>[[Giusti, Marco]] (1999). dizionario dei film italiani STRACULT [sic]. Cles: Sterling & Kupfer. pg. 253. {{ISBN|88-200-2919-7}}.</ref> |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=13}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mubi.com/films/emanuelles-revenge|title=Emanuelle's Revenge|website=Mubi.com|access-date=13 November 2017}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''Cuginetta, amore mio!'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=18}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b706f331b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615204813/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b706f331b|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 June 2017|title = Cuginetta... Amore Mio! (1976)}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''[[SS Girls]]'' |1977 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>Lupi, Gordiano; Gazzarrini, Ivo (2013). Bruno Mattei: L'ultimo artigiano (in Italian). {{ISBN|9788876064609}}. page 216.</ref>{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=114}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Women's Camp 119]]'' |1977 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>Lupi, Gordiano; Gazzarrini, Ivo (2013). Bruno Mattei: L'ultimo artigiano (in Italian). {{ISBN|9788876064609}}. page 217.</ref>{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=51}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Sexy Night Report]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=16}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Emanuelle e le Porno Notti nel Mondo N.2]]'' |1978 | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=16}} |- !scope="row"|''Cicciolina amore mio'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Sexual Aberration: Sesso Perverso]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=18}} |- !scope="row"|''Sesso perverso, mondo violento'' |1980 | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=18}} |- !scope="row"|''La provinciale a lezione di sesso'' |1980 | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmtv.it/film/35961/la-provinciale-a-lezione-di-sesso/|title = La provinciale a lezione di sesso (1980) | FilmTV.it| date=19 January 2020 }}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''The True Story of the Nun of Monza'' |1980 | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite book|title=La vera storia della Monaca di Monza = The true story of the nun of Monza|publisher=[[WorldCat]]|oclc = 614071565}}</ref>{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=32}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Hell of the Living Dead]]'' |1980 | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=50}}<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]|title=Inferno dei morti-viventi (Zombie Creeping Flesh)|last=Jenkins|first=Steve|volume=49|issue=576|page=229|year=1982|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''[[The Other Hell]]'' |1981 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}}{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=52}} |-
!scope="row"|''[[Caligula and Messalina]]'' |1981 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | |{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=217}}{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=284}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power]]'' |1982 | {{yes}} | | | | |{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Violence in a Women's Prison]]'' |1982 | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Women's Prison Massacre]]'' |1983 | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[The Seven Magnificent Gladiators]]'' | 1983 | {{yes}} | | {{yes}} | | |{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=204}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Rats: Night of Terror]]'' |1984 | {{yes}} | | {{yes}} | | |{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=218}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=55}}<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Delirium|date=2014|issue=3|publisher=[[Charles Band]]|last=Alexander|first=Chris|title=The Rats are Coming...Geretta Geretta is Here!|page=28}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''[[Hanna D. - The Girl from Vondel Park]]'' |1984 | {{yes}} | | | {{yes}} | co-director ||{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=217}} <ref>Russell Campbell. Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema. Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2006. {{ISBN|9780299212537}}.</ref> |- !scope="row"|''[[White Apache]]'' |1986 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=155}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}}{{sfn|Grant|2011|p=468}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Scalps (1987 film)|Scalps]]'' |1987 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=218}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}}{{sfn|Grant|2011|p=468}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Strike Commando]]'' |1987 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=218}}<ref>{{cite book|title=International Motion Picture Almanac for 1989|editor-last=Klain|editor-first=Jane|edition=60|publisher=Quigley Publishing Company, Inc.|year=1989|isbn=0-900610-40-9|page=404}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''[[Double Target]]'' |1987 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}}{{sfn|Hayward|1988|p=155}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=216}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Zombi 3]]'' |1988 |{{yes}} | | |{{yes}} | |{{sfn|Cortini|Nutman|1989|p=45}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Appointment in Trieste]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | Made for television |{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=218}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=65}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Strike Commando 2]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Robowar (film)|Robowar]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=218}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Cop Game]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[After Death (1989 film)|After Death]]'' |{{n/a}} | | | |{{yes}} | As co-producer |{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=213}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Born to Fight (1989 film)|Born to Fight]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | co-directed with Claudio Fragasso |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2016|p=180}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=218}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Shocking Dark|Shocking Dark - Terminator II]]'' | 1989 | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Paul|2005|p=218}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''Desire'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''Three For One'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=155}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Dangerous Attraction (film)|Dangerous Attraction]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Howarth|2015a|p=169}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=79}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=215}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Madness (1994 film)|Madness]]'' |1994 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2016|p=195}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=79}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=215}}{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=392}}{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=9}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Omicidio al telefono]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Howarth|2015b|p=169}}{{sfn|Howarth|2015b|p=172}} |- !scope="row"|''Legitimate Vendetta'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=82}}{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=216}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Cruel Jaws]]'' |1995 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''Ljuba: Body and Soul'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''A Respectable Judge'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''Belle da morire: Killing Striptease'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}}{{clarify|date=April 2020}} |- !scope="row"|''The Other Woman'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''Venetian Caprice'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Snuff Trap]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=91}} |- !scope="row"|''Mondo Cannibale: Cannibal World'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''In the Land of the Cannibals'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''The Tomb'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''Killing Striptease II'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=87}} |- !scope="row"|''A Shudder on the Skin'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''Secrets of a Woman'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''Secrets of a Woman II'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''Orient Escape'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''The Jail: The Women's Hell'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Island of the Living Dead]]'' |{{n/a}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}} |- !scope="row"|''[[Zombies: The Beginning]]'' |2007 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Lupi|Gazzarrini|2013|p=156}} |- |}
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