Oct 2017
Italian director Umberto Lenzi has died. In the early days of VHS, Lenzi became known in the U.S. primarily for some of his horror movies around that same period--MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY (CANNIBAL FEROX), EATEN ALIVE, NIGHTMARE CITY, etc.--though most of them are far from his best work. Lenzi actually worked in every conceivable genre over the years--Westerns, Eurospy pictures, action pictures, gialli, war movies, peplums, crime films, even made a Robin Hood movie once (though I've never seen it). He was 85.
https://www.horrorsociety.com/2017/10/19/breaking-cult-italian-director-umberto-lenzi-passed-away/
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"The Dig"
https://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/
https://www.horrorsociety.com/2017/10/19/breaking-cult-italian-director-umberto-lenzi-passed-away/
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"The Dig"
https://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/
My faves are Eaten Alive (1980), Cannibal Ferox (1981), and Nightmare City (1980). What a great era the early 80s was...
RIP Umberto! A pioneer of Italian exploitation.