Joe D'Amato
Director·1936–1999·Rome, Lazio, Italy
34 horror credits
Joe D'Amato, (birth name: Aristide Massaccesi) (December 15, 1936 in Rome - January 23, 1999 in Rome) 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. While D'Amato contributed to many different genres (such as the spaghetti western, the war movie, the swashbuckler, the peplum, and the fantasy film), the majority of his films are exploitation-themed pornography, both soft- and hardcore. He is perhaps most well known for his horror film efforts, many of which went on to become cult movies (such as Anthropophagous and Beyond the Darkness), and for his hastily-produced remakes of popular American films (such as the Ator series, based upon the Conan the Barbarian films), some of which were featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000. The poor production value of many of his films, combined with his expressed lack of concern for the production quality of his films as long as they proved profitable, have led him to be labeled as "The Evil Ed Wood," despite D'Amato's apparently amiable nature.
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Director20 films
The Crawlers
Director
Return from Death: Frankenstein 2000
Director
Deep Blood
Director
Killing Birds
Director
Convent of Sinners
Director
Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst
Director
Caligula: The Untold Story
Director
Absurd
Director
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
Director
Anthropophagous
Director
Beyond the Darkness
Director
Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals
Director
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
Director
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Director
Emanuelle Around the World
Director
Emanuelle in America
Director
Black Cobra
Director
Emanuelle and Françoise
Director
Death Smiles on a Murderer
Director
The Devil's Wedding Night
Director
Writer9 films
Return from Death: Frankenstein 2000
Screenplay
Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst
Screenplay
Caligula: The Untold Story
Writer
Anthropophagous
Story
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
Screenplay / Story
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Screenplay / Story
Emanuelle Around the World
Writer
Black Cobra
Screenplay
Emanuelle and Françoise
Writer
Producer11 films
Door Into Silence
Executive Producer
Return from Death: Frankenstein 2000
Producer
Hitcher in the Dark
Producer
Witchcraft (Evil Encounters)
Producer
Killing Birds
Producer
Ghosthouse
Producer
Stage Fright
Producer
Convent of Sinners
Producer
Absurd
Producer
Anthropophagous
Producer
Emanuelle and Françoise
Producer
Cinematographer21 films
Return from Death: Frankenstein 2000
Director of Photography
Deep Blood
Director of Photography
Killing Birds
Director of Photography
Convent of Sinners
Director of Photography
Caligula: The Untold Story
Director of Photography
Absurd
Director of Photography
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
Director of Photography
Beyond the Darkness
Director of Photography
Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals
Director of Photography
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
Director of Photography
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Director of Photography
Emanuelle Around the World
Director of Photography
Emanuelle in America
Director of Photography
Black Cobra
Director of Photography
Emanuelle and Françoise
Director of Photography
The Antichrist
Director of Photography
Death Smiles on a Murderer
Director of Photography
The Devil's Wedding Night
Director of Photography
The Killer Is on the Phone
Director of Photography
What Have You Done to Solange?
Director of Photography
The Island of the Swedes
Director of Photography
Editor1 film
Convent of Sinners
Editor
Actor5 films
Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut: The Horror Experience
Himself (Archival Footage)
Sick-o-pathics
Neighbour #2
Anthropophagous
Bearded Man exiting the Cable Car
Emanuelle Around the World
Halup Kilev (uncredited)
What Have You Done to Solange?
CID Officer w / The Daily Telegraph (uncredited)
Other Crew5 films
Troll 2
Associate Producer
Killing Birds
Photoscience Manager
Anthropophagous
Camera Operator
A Quiet Place to Kill
Camera Operator
Hercules in the Haunted World
Camera Operator