Dardano Sacchetti
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Dardano Sacchetti (born 1944) is an Italian screenwriter most well-known for his work in the horror genre. Beginning his career in the early 1970's, Sacchetti has been associated with some of the best-known horror film directors to emerge from Italy in the latter part of the century. He first collaborated with Dario Argento on the script for 1971's The Cat o' Nine Tails, which attracted the attention of famed director Mario Bava, who then hired Sacchetti to help write the story for the 1971 feature Twitch of the Death Nerve. Sacchetti's resume "boasts" some of the most controversial and gruesome splatter films in cinema history. Perhaps his most famous film is the notorious 1979 hit Zombi 2, director Lucio Fulci's attempt to cash in on the worldwide success of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. In recent years his output has slowed, though he still writes the occasional script and also teaches screenwriting.
[edit] Partial filmography
- The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
- Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971) aka "Bay of Blood"
- Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes (1977) aka "The Psychic"
- Shock (1977)
- Zombi 2 (1979)
- Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) aka "Invasion of the Flesh Hunters"
- The Last Hunter (1980)
- City of the Living Dead (1980) aka "The Gates of Hell"
- The Beyond (1981)
- The House by the Cemetery (1981)
- The Scorpion With Two Tails (1982)
- Blue Island (1982) starring Sabrina Siani
- The New York Ripper (1982)
- Amityville II: The Possession (uncredited) (1982)
- 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
- Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
- Ironmaster (1983) aka "Ator 3", aka "The War of Iron"
- A Blade in the Dark (1983) aka "The House Of the Dark Staircase"
- The New Gladiators (1984)
- Devilfish (1984) aka "Monster Shark"
- Blastfighter (1984) aka "Force of Vengeance"
- Cut and Run (1985) aka "Inferno in Diretta"
- Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985)
- Dèmoni (1985)
- You'll Die At Midnight (1986)
- Evil Senses (1986)
- Hands Of Steel (1986)
- Dèmoni 2 (1986)
- Graveyard Disturbance (1987)
- Per Sempre (1987) aka "Until Death"
- Spectres (1987)
- Body Count (1987)
- Prince of Terror (1981) episode of "Alta Tensione" TV series
- The Ogre (1988)
- Dinner With The Vampire (1988)
- Rat Man (1989)
- The Church (1989) aka "Demons 3"
- Cy Warrior (1989)
- School of Fear (1989) aka "Il Gioko"
- Killer Crocodile (1989)
- Killer Crocodile 2 (1990)
- The Torturer (2005)

