{{Short description|Italian special effects and make-up artist (born 1957)}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Sergio_Stivaletti_1996.jpg | caption = Stivaletti in 1996 | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|15 March 1957}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | height = | death_date = | death_place = | yearsactive = | alma_mater = | occupation = Special effects artist | website = }} '''Sergio Stivaletti''' (born 15 March 1957) is an Italian special effects artist, make-up artist, director and screenwriter.
== Life and career == Born in Rome, while being a student of medicine at the Sapienza University Stivaletti entered the film industry as an uncredited builder of small props in some Pupi Avati films.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bonzi |first1=Andrea |title=Sergio Stivaletti: 'Mostri e killer, la mia missione è fare paura' |url=https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/sono-lultimo-artigiano-degli-effetti-speciali-mostri-e-killer-la-mia-missione-e-fare-paura-d1d8f4a9 |access-date=21 September 2024 |work=Quotidiano Nazionale |date=19 July 2021 |language=it}}</ref><ref name="enc">{{Cite book |last=Canova |first=Gianni |author-link=Gianni Canova |title=Enciclopedia del cinema |date=2005 |publisher=Garzanti |isbn=978-88-11-50516-7 |page=1158 |chapter=Stivaletti, Sergio}}</ref><ref name="b21">{{cite news |last1=Bosetto |first1=Angela |title=Effetti speciali, a scuola dal maestro Stivaletti |url=https://www.larena.it/argomenti/spettacoli/spettacoli/effetti-speciali-a-scuoladal-maestro-stivaletti-1.5562012 |access-date=21 September 2024 |work=L'Arena |date=15 March 2017 |language=it}}</ref> He got his first credit as special effects artist in Riccardo Freda's ''Murder Obsession''.<ref name="bio">{{cite book |last1=Poppi |first1=Roberto |title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri |date=2002 |publisher=Gremese Editore |isbn=978-88-8440-171-7 |page=413 |chapter=Stivaletti, Sergio}}</ref> In 1985, he began a long professional association with Dario Argento, handling special effects and make-up in ''Phenomena''.<ref name="enc" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bisti |first1=Valentina |title=Sergio Stivaletti, re degli effetti speciali |url=https://www.film.it/news/film/dettaglio/art/sergio-stivaletti-re-degli-effetti-speciali-17269/ |access-date=21 September 2024 |work=Film.it |date=7 January 2001 |language=it}}</ref> He is also a frequent collaborator of Michele Soavi and Lamberto Bava both in their film and television projects, and also worked in films by Matteo Garrone, Gabriele Salvatores, Sergio Castellitto and Julie Taymor.<ref name="b21" />
In 1997, Stivaletti debuted as director with ''Wax Mask'', replacing original director Lucio Fulci who had died during the pre-production phase.<ref name="enc" /><ref name="bio" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cooper |first1=L. Andrew |title=Dario Argento |date=30 November 2012 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-09438-5 |page=128 |language=en}}</ref>
== Selected filmography== {{sticky header}} {| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header-multi"" ! width="15%" rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title !! width="4%" rowspan="2" scope="col" | Year!! colspan="3" 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% | Special effects!! width=6% |Make-up!! width=6% | Other |- !scope="row"|''Murder Obsession'' |1981 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=328}} |- !scope="row"|{{sort|Scorpion with Two Tails|''The Scorpion with Two Tails''}} |1982 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|pp=96-97}} |- !scope="row"|''Phenomena'' |1985 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|<ref name=nocturno>{{cite web |title=Intervista A Sergio Stivaletti |date=13 May 2015 |website=Nocturno.it |language=it |url=https://www.nocturno.it/intervista-sergio-stivaletti/ |access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="arrow-55">{{Cite AV media notes|title=Dario Argento's Phenomena|chapter=About the Versions|year=2017|page=55|type=book|publisher=Arrow Video|ID=FCD1507}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|''Demons'' |1985 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|pp=121-122}} |- !scope="row"|''Demons 2'' |1985 |{{yes}} | |{{yes}} |Uncredited screenwriter and story author |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=139}} |- !scope="row"|''Specters'' |1987 |{{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=146}} |- !scope="row"|{{sort|Spider Labyrinth|''The Spider Labyrinth''}} |1988 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=162}} |- !scope="row"|{{sort|Church|''The Church''}} |1989 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|pp=171-172}} |- !scope="row"|''Wax Mask'' |1997 | {{yes}} | |{{yes}} | Director |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curci|1997|p=38}}{{sfn|Rooney|1997}} |- !scope="row"|''Dracula 3D'' |2012 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Rooney|2012}} |- !scope="row"|''Dark Glasses'' |2022 | {{yes}} | | | |style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Vivarelli|2022}}{{sfn|Miska|2022}} |- |}
== References == {{reflist}}
===Sources=== * {{cite magazine|magazine=Fangoria|title=Wax Ecstatic|last=Curci|first=Loris|issue=162|date=May 1997}} * {{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |title=Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1476628387 |year=2017 }} * {{cite book | last= Curti | first= Roberto | title= Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 |publisher= McFarland |year= 2019 |isbn= 978-1476672434}} * {{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3699672/dark-glasses-dario-argentos-return-giallo-world-premiere-berlin/|title='Dark Glasses': Dario Argento's Return to Giallo to World Premiere in Berlin!|last=Miska|first=Brad|date=January 19, 2022|website=Bloody Disgusting|access-date=October 28, 2024}} * {{cite magazine|last=Rooney |first=David |title=Review: 'Wax Mask' |url= https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/wax-mask-1117341402/ |access-date=October 28, 2024|magazine=Variety|date=April 20, 1997}} * {{cite web |url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/review/dario-argento-dracula-3d-cannes-326991 |title=Dario Argento's Dracula 3D: Cannes Review - The Hollywood Reporter |last=Rooney |first=David |date=May 20, 2012 |work=hollywoodreporter.com |access-date=August 4, 2012}} * {{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/dario-argento-horror-tenderness-dark-glasses-1235176812/|work=Variety|title=Dario Argento on Mixing Horror With Tenderness in 'Dark Glasses' (Exclusive)|date=February 10, 2022|last=Vivarelli|first=Nick|accessdate=October 28, 2024}}
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