Bruno Mattei
Bruno Mattei (30 July 1931 – 21 May 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor who directed exploitation films in many genres, including women in prison, nunsploitation, zombie, mondo, cannibal, and Nazisploitation films. Born in 1931, Bruno Mattei grew up in Rome, Italy, where his father owned a small film editing studio. Mattei made his debut as a director with the drama Armida, il dramma di una sposa(1970) under the alias "Jordon B. Matthews". He eventually had more pseudonyms than any working director in the world. He returned to editing before making another comeback in 1976 with two low-budget Nazi exploitation films, Women's Camp 119 (1977) (aka "Women's Camp 119") and Casa privata per le SS (1977) (aka "SS Girls"). Mattei followed these taboo-breaking films with excursions into porno films and mondo "shockumentaries", all directed under his many pseudonyms, concentrating on "shock value" with films such as Mondo erotico (1973), "Libiodomania" and "Libidomania 2". Always on the lookout for new exploitation avenues, Mattei followed with "nunsploitation", with the softcore sex film La vera storia della monaca di Monza (1980) and the violent sex thriller The Other Hell (1981). Both films involved a partnership with writer/director Claudio Fragasso, who helped him write and direct the back-to-back productions. Using yet another alias, "Vincent Dawn", Mattei directed Hell of the Living Dead (1980) (aka "Hell of the Living Dead"), a low-budged zombie picture inspired by other zombie cannibal movies such as Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 (1979). "Virus" was filmed in Spain and used jungle footage from New Guinea and a patch soundtrack from Goblins "Dawn of the Dead" soundtrack, which was a minor hit in Italy and abroad. After directing two women's prison films starring Laura Gemser, Mattei moved to directing sword-and-sorcery flicks, starting with I sette magnifici gladiatori (1983). Both Mattei and Fragasso collaborated on the sci-fi/horror flick Rats - Notte di terrore (1984), inspired by the futuristic movies of the early 1980s. Mattei considers this his best work, despite his still having to work with a very low budget. He worked relentlessly through the 1980s, directing a pair of "spaghetti westerns", some action flicks and about half of Zombi 3 (1988) after Lucio Fulci was taken off the production, though Mattei was not credited with it. In the early 1990s Mattei directed a series of erotic thrillers and a made-for-TV movie, Cruel Jaws (1995) (TV), which was inspired by Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975). Mattei continued making films, with more than 50 to his credit by the 200s. In early 2007 his health becan to decline rapidly after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Despite his doctor's warnings, he went through with a surgical operation to have the tumor removed in May of that year. After the surgery he fell into a coma from complications, and died a few days later on May 21, 2007 at age 75.
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
(Self)
Zombies: The Beginning
(Himself (uncredited))
The Films of Bruno Mattei
Night of the Zombies
(SWAT Officer at Embassy Siege (uncredited))
Zombie Flesh Eaters 2
(Soldier at creamatorum (uncredited))
Legittima Vendetta
(Regista del provino (uncredited))
Night Killer
(Reporter with yellow scarf (uncredited))
Count Dracula
(Editor)
Night of the Zombies
(Director)
Caligula and Messalina
(Director)
Private House of the SS
(Director)
Violence in a Women's Prison
(Director)
Violence in a Women's Prison
(Editor)
Devil Fish
(Second Unit)
Black Velvet
(Editor)
In the Land of the Cannibals
(Director)
Black Cobra
(Editor)
Secrets of Women
(Director)
Women's Prison Massacre
(Director)
Shocking Dark
(Director)
The True Story of the Nun of Monza
(Director)
The Jail: The Women's Hell
(Director)
Rats: Night of Terror
(Director)
Night Killer
(Director)
The Tomb
(Director)
Cruel Jaws
(Director)
Zombie Flesh Eaters 2
(Director)
Tua per la vita
(Assistant Editor)
Cop Game
(Director)
Strike Commando
(Director)
Strike Commando
(Writer)
Double Target
(Director)
Double Target
(Writer)
Island of the Living Dead
(Director)
Killing Striptease
(Director)
Libidomania
(Director)
Robowar
(Director)
Telephone Murder
(Director)
Zombies: The Beginning
(Director)
Uno storico pasticcio
(Director)
Cannibal World
(Director)
Cannibal World
(Writer)
Snuff Trap
(Director)
Strike Commando 2
(Director)
The Other Hell
(Director)
The Other Hell
(Story)
Legittima Vendetta
(Director)
Legittima Vendetta
(Writer)
The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
(Director)
White Apache
(Director)
Scalps
(Director)
Scalps
(Screenplay)
Armida, il dramma di una sposa
(Director)
Love Sacrifice
(Director)
Sexy Night Report
(Director)
Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2
(Director)
Cicciolina my love
(Director)
Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power
(Director)
Sesso Perverso, Mondo Violento
(Director)
Sortis de route
(Director)
Sortis de route
(Writer)
Born to Fight
(Director)
Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun
(Editor)
The Other Woman
(Director)
The Magnificent Tony Carrera
(Editor)
Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia
(Assistant Editor)
Revenge of the Black Knight
(Editor)
Rats: Night of Terror
(Story)
The Deserter
(Editor)
The Dark Side of a Woman
(Director)
Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2
(Screenplay)
Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2
(Editor)
Goldface, the Fantastic Superman
(Editor)
The Violent Patriot
(Assistant Editor)
The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
(Editor)
Non è vero... ma ci credo!
(Assistant Editor)
Mondo caldo di notte
(Editor)
The Nights of Lucretia Borgia
(Assistant Editor)
Women's Prison Massacre
(Production Manager)
Three for One
(Director)
Venetian Caprice
(Director)
Venetian Caprice
(Writer)
Venetian Caprice
(Editor)
Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power
(Writer)
Snuff Trap
(Editor)
Snuff Trap
(Music Editor)
La collegiale
(Editor)
Desire
(Director)
Dangerous Attraction
(Director)
Sexy Night Report
(Supervising Editor)
Body and Soul
(Director)
Body and Soul
(Writer)
Sexy Night Report
(Writer)
Killing Striptease
(Writer)
Killing Striptease
(Editor)
The Other Woman
(Writer)
Love Sacrifice
(Screenplay)
Snuff Trap
(Writer)
Private House of the SS
(Writer)
Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power
(Editor)
Women's Camp 119
(Director)
Women's Camp 119
(Writer)
Emanuelle and Françoise
(Writer)
Lesbo
(Editor)
Sortis de route
(Producer)
Giovanna
(Assistant Editor)
Island of the Living Dead
(Screenplay)
Strike Commando
(Editor)
Fellini dice...
(Director)
Cruel Jaws
(Screenplay)
Cruel Jaws
(Editor)
Belle da morire 2
(Director)
Hanna D: The Girl from Vondel Park
(Editor)
The Mighty Crusaders
(Assistant Editor)
Target Frankie
(Editor)
La provinciale a lezione di sesso
(Director)
Zombie Flesh Eaters 2
(Editor)
Telephone Murder
(Writer)
Madness
(Director)
Madness
(Editor)
Yellow: The Cousins
(Editor)
Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
(Assistant Editor)
Inconsolable Widows Are Looking For Distractions
(Editor)
In the Land of the Cannibals
(Writer)
In the Land of the Cannibals
(Editor)
99 Women
(Editor)
Viaggio ai confini dell'eros
(Director)
Cannibali - Leggenda o realtà
(Director)
La sposa
(Assistant Editor)
Three for One
(Editor)
Night Killer
(Editor)
Born to Fight
(Editor)
The French Sex Murders
(Editor)
Double Target
(Editor)
Un giudice di rispetto
(Screenplay)
Un giudice di rispetto
(Story)
Appointment in Trieste
(Director)