Alberto De Martino

Alberto De Martino was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, De Martino started as a child actor and later returned to the cinema where worked as a screenwriter, director and dubbing supervisor. De Martinos films as a director specialised in wellcrafted knockoffs of Hollywood hit films. These films were specifically created films in Western, horror and mythology genres which were developed for the international market. The Telegraph stated that his best known of these film was probably The Antichrist. The Antichrist capitalized on the boxoffice appeal of The Exorcist and in its first week in the United States earned a greater box office than Jaws. Horror film fans also remember him for The Blancheville Monster, Blood Link, Formula for a Murder, Medusa vs the Son of Hercules and Holocaust 2000.

Alberto De Martino was born on June 12, 1929 in Rome. De Martino was the son of a film makeup artist. He started his career as a child actor. By then, the golden age of Italian cinema was fading, but there was still plenty of work to be had from more commercial projects. The first film that he directed, known in English as The Invincible Gladiator , was part of the swordandsandals craze, after which De Martino turned his hand to the newly fashionable spaghetti Western, notably with Ringo .

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