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Omega Rising: Remembering Joe D'Amato
- Year:
- 2017
- 96 min
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I'm a copier, a cheater.
Ruggero Deodatos film had just come
out and had gone really well...
called Eaten Alive... No... Yes...
it was called Last Cannibal World...
It had done really well, it had been seized by the
censors, so we decide to ride their commercial success.
I had an associate called Fabrizio De Angelis, with whom I put
together a company in order to make Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals.
It came out well, with this combination, a little
horror and a little sex, that worked well...
We went to Fogliano, but
nobody believes we did.
We hired a lot of Filippino's from Rome, we put
some wigs on them and pretended they were lndio's.
They all fell into the trap.
At Fogliano there is an artificial
lake with two palm trees...
it could look like the Amazon and with these
Filippino's in wigs, it was perfect...
I first met Aristide
Massaccesi in 1971
when I worked on the first
film I had written.
A film directed by Michele Lupo,
with Giuliano Gemma.
Aristide, during this period, was a director
of photography and a camera operator.
simple and spontaneous
very friendly, and extremely brave.
I saw him shoot a scene,
precariously tied to a coach
with the serious risk of
harming himself.
I asked him if he was crazy.
He was a pleasant person
and he always had a joke so you
would always be laughing.
With Emanuelle e Francoise- le
sorelline (Emanuelle's Revenge)
I was involved by chance.
He had a script that was too short and
he asked me to have a look at it.
idea from an old film,
adding this idea of a man being
held captive in a cage.
A French film, that took the concept
It was an idea that had been
copied a couple times.
He offered me a role.
I didn't want to do the film,
especially my role.
It took place in a villa owned by
one of the producers,
Which was a five minute
walk from my house.
So, seeing as I needed the money...
the morning cf the shoot, instead of getting a
cappuccino, I went there and did my scenes.
That's the only reason I did it.
I've never seen the film.
I haven't the foggiest idea
of what came of it.
I doubt there is a film, in which Aristide put
any real effort in the framing of his shots.
That was not his role. His
role was to hurry up.
Most of his films were sold
before shooting,
distributors and shoot them.
Often he would go so quickly that he would
finish a lot sooner than scheduled.
He couldn't go tell this to the distributors
though because if not they would say:
why the f*** did I give that
amount of money?
Once, one of his
distributors visited the set
and we didn't have a
thing to show him
so we pretend to shoot without any
film in the camera.
He explained the situation to us and
we went along with his charade.
The Anthropophagus project
was born by chance.
I had gone to his office for a visit and he
was dealing with a script that didn't work.
He only had the beginning:
a man that finds himself
shipwrecked on a lifeboat.
I told him, jokingly I will write it for
you but I have to be the protagonist.
The film was supposed to
be set in Greece.
I would often choose what films to do on the
basis of where they were going to be shot.
I wrote what you can
see in the film.
There weren't any great ideas.
The only original concept was this
basically becoming a cannibal
after devouring his son.
As luck would have it, I didn't
even get to go to Greece
because all my scenes
were shot in Rome.
Talking about the film is difficult,
because there is nothing to it
just a few gruesome scenes that a
certain fraction of the public like.
can't say I liked them.
Absurd however, which can be
considered a sort of a sequel,
I had more fun writing.
Even though that too was a little
film, not a big deal.
Following Aristide's request I tried to conceive
a film that wasn't going to be too expensive
where most cf the action took place on one set:
a villa, in which this crazed man finds refuge.
It's your average horror film,
nothing exceptional... but it works.
My first meeting with Michele was in
a cemetery at night...
but I'm not sure it was Absurd
maybe another film... no it
was probably Absurd.
with motorbikes.
Calling here and there they rounded
up a few friends and
among this group there was also Michele Soavi
and that's where he fell in love with cinema
and fell in love with Aristide,
because it was hard not to.
He even came on the following days
when we didn't need the
bikers anymore.
He would hang round and help, asking
if he could do anything.
Slowly a relationship began. Aristide
took him under his wing, like a son.
Michele was completely unaware of
what life on a set was.
He was bright and loved cinema, in fact
he had a developed aesthetical taste...
I met Aristide Massaccesi through his trusted
Assistant Director, Claudio Bernabei
with whom I was also a friend.
He was working on Absurd and for a scene
they needed kids with motorbikes...
small production
they were looking for people who could
bring their own bikes with them,
were shooting.
He looked at me and asked do you have a
photo? I answered of me or my motorbike?
and he began laughing. It was
love at first sight.
I was very young, nineteen years old
and trying to find some work,
fascinated, as I was, by cinema.
At night, I would admire these spaceships that
would be shooting in the city, during the summer.
For me that was a dream, instead of
hanging out in bars smoking joints.
To be able to work in that world, at
night, was like a dream to me.
I was picked so I went to the
set with my bike.
It was a night shoot,
there was me and other teens and we
were supposed to taunt an old drunkard
on this minuscule set, made
out of 8 people.
I would see this little man, Aristide, climbing
on vans and shooting all over the place.
In six hours we had an
infinite number of shots.
I was paid immediately, which is
something very rare.
Usually you get paid weeks later but
instead his partner, Donatella Donati
came up to me smiling and handed me
my 50 thousand lira.
For the bit parts or as
an assistant.
Then Michele was an AD on a film I
directed, as always, produced by Aristide.
Seeing Michele as kept insisting, Aristide
decided to give him a chance in directing a film
and he asked me to write the script.
Actually, he asked me
to write two...
...one for Michele and one for me.
The first film I wrote was... the one he called
Acquarius... Stagefright and I was supposed to direct it,
but I was having trouble with a restaurant I had
just opened in Rome and had to take care of it,
so I told Aristide Michele can direct the
first and I will do the following one.
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