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Lamberto Bava

Born April 3, 1944
Rome, Italy

Lamberto Bava (born April 3, 1944) is an Italian film director, specializing in horror and fantasy films. Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest

Bava was born in Rome, Italy, the son of cinematographer/director Mario Bava, and grandson of cameraman Eugenio Bava. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Mario Bava ( July 31 1914 – April 25 1980) was an Italian director, Screenwriter, and Cinematographer Eugenio Bava (b June 4, 1886, Italy - d October 23, 1966, Rome, Italy was an Italian film Cinematographer He is also a protege of director Dario Argento. Dario Argento (born September 7 1940) is an Italian Film director, producer and Screenwriter.

After working as a personal assistant, assistant director and screenwriter with his father, Bava began working as an assistant director with Dario Argento (on Inferno and Tenebrae) and Ruggero Deodato (on the notorious Cannibal Holocaust). A personal assistant, or personal aide, is someone who assists in daily personal tasks An assistant director (AD is a person who helps the director in the making of a Movie or Television show Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made Inferno is a 1980 Italian Supernatural Horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. Tenebrae (also known as Tenebre) is a 1982 Italian horror thriller film written and directed by Dario Argento Ruggero Deodato (born May 7 1939 in Potenza) is a controversial Italian Film director, Actor and Screen writer Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980) is a controversial Exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici Eventually, Bava moved into the directing chair, making his debut with the twisted "Macabre" (aka Frozen Terror) and then went on to helming several features, including A Blade in the Dark and "Devilfish"/Monster Shark. A Blade in the Dark known (in its original Italian title as Casa con la scala nel buio La but also goes by House of the Dark Stairway

In 1985, Bava re-teamed with Argento, this time as a director and writer (with Argento also as producer), for Demons and Demons 2. Dèmoni (also known as Demons) is a 1985 Italian Horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by Dèmoni 2 ( Demons 2) is a 1986 Italian Horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and co-written and produced by Dario For some reason, he did not return for "Demons 3" (aka The Church) (which was later directed by Michele Soavi, who had earlier appeared as an actor in Bava's "Blade in the Dark"). However, a made for TV film that Bava later directed under the title "The Ogre" somehow got released as "Demons 3" on DVD in the USA. Lamberto himself has said that "The Ogre" had no connection with the other entries in the Demons series and that "Demons 3" was the project that was later retitled "The Church". (Umberto Lenzi's 1991 film "Black Demons" was also released as "Demons 3", adding to the confusion. ) Soavi later directed "Demons 4: The Sect" (aka "The Devil's Daughter"), and Lamberto Bava's 1989 "Mask of the Demon" was later released on USA video as "Demons 5: The Devil's Veil". (Luigi Cozzi's "Black Cat" (1990) has been referred to in some reference books as "Demons 6". )

In 1987, Bava directed Until Death/ The Changeling 2, an unofficial sequel to Peter Medak's 1980 haunted house film, The Changeling. The Changeling 2 (aka Per Sempre and Fino Alla Morte) is an unofficial sequel to Peter Medak 's 1980 haunted house thriller Peter Medak (born December 23, 1937) is a Hungarian-born Film director of British and American Reportedly, famed Italian horror director Lucio Fulci was furious when he learned that Bava directed this film, since he had understood that he was going to direct it with the project's screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti, and he even accused Sacchetti of stealing the idea from him, which was not true according to Sacchetti.

Bava was hired to direct four episodes of the Italian TV series "Alta Tensione", these four films not being distributed in the USA unfortunately. Bava then went on to work on the Italian TV fantasy series Fantaghirò, which has since spawned four sequels. Fantaghirò (aka Cave of the Golden Rose) is a fantasy Television film produced by Reteitalia, directed by Lamberto Bava He has continued making television films in this style, including "The Dragon Ring" and "Pirates: Blood Brothers". It seems he has given up making horror films in favor of made-for-TV fantasy films. He said in a recent interview that he enjoys creating imaginative movies for children, rather than cranking out more repetitive violent slasher flicks. Horror fans in the US and Britain seem to remember him best however for his two "Demons" films and "Blade in the Dark".

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