Alvaro Passeri

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Alvaro Passeri
Occupations
  • Special effects artist
  • film director
Years active1979–

Alvaro Passeri, also known as Al Passeri, is an Italian special effects artist and film director, known for directing Creatures from the Abyss (1994), The Mummy Theme Park (2000), and Flight to Hell (2003). He also contributed special effects on the films Tentacles (1977) and Madhouse (1981). [1]

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Partial filmography

As director

YearTitleNotesRef(s)
1994 Creatures from the Abyss Also known as Plankton [2] [3] [4]
2000 The Mummy Theme Park [5]
2003 Flight to Hell

References

  1. Ercolani, Eugenio (2023). Darkening the Italian Screen II: Interviews with Genre and Exploitation Directors Who Debuted in the 1970s. McFarland & Company. p. 112. ISBN   978-1476690360.
  2. "Italy | Walking the "Plankton"". The Hollywood Reporter . Vol. 318, no. 35–50. 1991. p. 65. ISSN   0018-3660.
  3. Grassi, Giovanna (October 1, 1995). "la sagra dell' horror attira anche il figlio di Stallone cinema, cartelloni e rassegne". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Archived from the original on November 28, 2015.
  4. Ziemba, Joseph A.; Chol, Annie; Carlson, Zack (2021). Bleeding Skull!: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Fantagraphics Books. pp. 51–52. ISBN   978-1683961864.
  5. Davies, Clive (2015). Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write About. Headpress. p. 658. ISBN   978-1909394278.