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Nick Palumbo (born November 12, 1970) is an American filmmaker. He is the CEO of Fright Flix Productions, Inc. Palumbo is internationally known by film fans and cinema critics for making ultraviolent, visually stunning and unnerving horror feature motion pictures, which have caused ongoing public media controversy since their releases. ==Early life== Palumbo was born in Washington, D.C. to a father who was successful commercial paint service company CEO and a mother who worked as a Naval operational intelligence officer for the United States Department of Defense at The Pentagon. Palumbo's parents divorced in 1978. Palumbo's extended family lived in the southeastern states of Virginia and Kentucky. Palumbo's paternal grandparents emigrated to the U.S. from Naples, Italy, while his maternal grandparents emigrated from Galway, Ireland, both in the 1920s. At the age of five, Palumbo was brought along by his father on several unusual and disturbing commercial painting contract jobs. These included painting jobs at many local mortuaries, where Palumbo witnessed death first-hand in the form of human corpses in the embalming and viewing rooms. By the age of ten, Palumbo was exposed to grisly criminal aftermath when he began assisting his father by painting the walls of homicide crime scene interior locations, as per the request of local law enforcement authorities, in greater Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland. Palumbo gained a strong interest in cinema as child. His father routinely took him to attend a wide variety of first-run and second-run 1970s and 1980s motion pictures at local drive-ins, cinemas and revival movie houses in metropolitan Washington, D.C. There, Palumbo saw such feature films as Martin Scorsese's landmark modern noir feature, ''Taxi Driver'', Stanley Kubrick's dark satirical masterpiece study of youth anarchy and its inevitable decline, ''A Clockwork Orange'', as well as Tobe Hooper's seminal horror feature, ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' (1974), the stars of which, Gunnar Hansen and Edwin Neal, Palumbo would later direct in his second feature film, ''Murder-Set-Pieces''. Palumbo cites the works of notable feature motion picture directors Roman Polanski and Dario Argento as those that have directly influenced his own work as a director. Palumbo has watched literally thousands of feature motion pictures over the course of his lifetime and feels that all of them have informed some aspects of his work. Palumbo's favorite feature film is Charles Laughton's classic crime thriller, ''The Night of the Hunter''. In 1983, Palumbo and his father moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he would live and work for over twenty years. Palumbo later attended the Columbia College Hollywood Film School from 1989–1991 in Los Angeles, before returning to Las Vegas. After learning the technical aspects of filmmaking, Palumbo worked on several low-budget feature films to gain additional knowledge and experience. Dividing his time between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Palumbo continued to work on film productions and write original screenplays. 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「Nick Palumbo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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