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Claudio Fragasso (born 2 October 1951) is an Italian screenwriter and film director of mostly low-budget exploitation films.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The New York Times )〕 He frequently co-wrote his scripts with his wife Rosella Drudi, and is mostly famous for his many collaborations with notorious Italian horror film director Bruno Mattei. == Filmmaking history == Fragasso has co-written (with his wife Rossella Drudi) the scripts for many horror movies that were directed by the infamous Bruno Mattei, including ''Zombie 3'', ''The Other Hell'', ''Rats Night of Terror'', ''Hell of the Living Dead'', ''Robowar'', ''The True Story of the Nun of Monza'', ''Women's Prison Massacre'', and ''Shocking Dark'', among others. Fragasso also co-directed a few of Mattei's films with him, including ''The Seven Magnificent Gladiators'', ''Zombie 3'', ''Scalps'', ''White Apache'', ''Hell of the Living Dead'' and ''Rats Night of Terror''. (Fragasso even essayed a few minor acting roles in some of Mattei's films; i.e. he played a cameo role as a soldier in ''Zombie 3''.) In 1984, Fragasso directed his debut feature, ''Monster Dog'', starring Alice Cooper as a rock-star werewolf. In 1988, Fragasso and Mattei were called in by the producer of ''Zombie 3'' (Franco Gaudenzi) to finish shooting the film when the director Lucio Fulci took ill and was forced to abandon the project halfway through.〔 The two were whisked to the Philippines where filming had been under way, and finished the shooting in a few days, while Fulci was recuperating in a hospital in Rome. Fulci was furious that the producer had finished the film without him, and tried unsuccessfully to have his name removed from the credits. After helping to complete ''Zombie 3'', Fragasso was given funding by producer Gaudenzi to write and direct another low-budget zombie film, ''Zombie 4: After Death'',〔 in an attempt to recoup some of the money he had lost on ''Zombie 3''. Fragasso's wife, Rossella Drudi, knocked out the script and he directed it on a shoestring budget, on the same sets they had used for ''Zombie 3''. After this Fragasso directed another horror film entitled ''Nightkiller'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Alexvisani.com )〕 (aka "Don't Open The Door Part 3") that was never released in the United States and has since become a rare movie to locate. With financial backing from famed Italian porn producer Joe D'Amato, Fragasso wrote and directed two infamous cult films on his own, ''La Casa 5: Beyond Darkness'' and ''Troll 2''〔 - under the pseudonym Drake Floyd - (although Joe D'Amato claimed he co-directed some scenes in "Troll 2"). After this period of low-budget directing, Fragasso went on to direct bigger-budget films, such as the highly successful ''Palermo Milano Sola Andata'' (1994). He now works in Italian television. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claudio Fragasso」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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