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'''Bruno Mattei''' (1931-2007) was a prolific Italian filmmaker: a screenwriter, director, and editor. He was most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the poor critical reception of his films, often criticized for their [[Mockbuster|unoriginality]] and [[So Bad It's Good|overall ridiculousness]], he has developed a cult following over the years. |
'''Bruno Mattei''' (1931-2007) was a prolific Italian filmmaker: a screenwriter, director, and editor. He was most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the poor critical reception of his films, often criticized for their [[Mockbuster|unoriginality]] and [[So Bad It's Good|overall ridiculousness]], he has developed a cult following over the years. |
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Revision as of 17:08, 5 June 2020
Bruno Mattei (1931-2007) was a prolific Italian filmmaker: a screenwriter, director, and editor. He was most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the poor critical reception of his films, often criticized for their unoriginality and overall ridiculousness, he has developed a cult following over the years.
Works created by Bruno Mattei include:
- Hell of the Living Dead
- Libidomania
- The Other Hell
- Robowar
- Shocking Dark
- SS Girls
- Strike Commando
- Violence in a Women's Prison
- Women's Prison Massacre
- Women's Camp 119
- Zombi 3
Bruno Mattei provides examples of the following tropes:
- B-Movie
- Exploitation Film: His bread and butter.
- Gorn: A bit with Zombi 3 and Hell of the Living Dead.
- Mockbuster: On several occasions, such as SS Girls for Salon Kitty, Robowar for Predator, and Shocking Dark for Aliens and The Terminator. The distributors even went so far as to release Shocking Dark in the United States as Terminator II (prior to the release of the actual Terminator 2).
- Mondo: Libidomania, among others.
- Nazisploitation: With SS Girls and Women's Camp 119.
- Production Posse: Frequently with Rossella Drudi as well as her husband, Claudio Fragasso, on screenwriting duties throughout his career. Earlier on in his career, he collaborated several times with director Joe D'Amato and actress Laura Gemser. In the 1980s, he casted Geretta Geretta and Reb Brown in his films a lot.
- Recycled Soundtrack: Known for doing this quite often in his films, notably so in Hell of the Living Dead, in which the theme from Dawn of the Dead was reused, as well as other songs by Goblin. He also reused Goblin music in his film The Other Hell.