Franco Ferrini

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Franco Ferrini
Born (1944-01-05) 5 January 1944 (age 79)
La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
OccupationScreenwriter
Known forcollaborations with Dario Argento

Franco Ferrini (born 5 January 1944) is an Italian screenwriter. His works often fall into the genres of horror [1] or thriller. He was one of the interviewees represented in the book Spaghetti Nightmares . [2]

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TitleYearCredited asNotesRef(s)
ScreenwriterScreen story writerOther
Crimebusters 1976Yes [3]
Red Rings of Fear 1978Yes [4]
Once Upon a Time in America 1984Yes [5]
Phenomena 1985YesYes [6] [7]
Demons 1985Yes [8] [9]
Nothing Underneath 1985Yes [8] [10] [11]
Demons 2 1986YesYes [12]
Sweets from a Stranger 1987YesYesYesDirector [13] [14] [15]
Opera 1987Yes [16] [17]
The Church 1989YesYes [18] [19]
Etoile 1989Yes [20]
Two Evil Eyes 1990Yes [21] [22]
The Stendhal Syndrome 1996Yes [23] [24]
Dark Glasses 2022Yes [25] [26] [27]

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  1. ↑ Thomas, Kevin (18 September 1986). "Demons: an orgy of gore". Anchorage Daily News . Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  2. ↑ Luca M. Palmerini; Gaetano Mistretta (1996). Margot Winick (ed.). Spaghetti nightmares: Italian fantasy-horrors as seen through the eyes of their protagonists (1st American ed.). Key West, Fla.: Fantasma Books. pp. 7, 49–54. ISBN   978-0-9634982-7-4 . Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  3. ↑ Curti 2013, p. 170.
  4. ↑ "Orgie des Todes" (in German). Filmportal.de . Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  5. ↑ "Once Upon a Time in America". American Film Institute . Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "Cast and Crew". Dario Argento's Phenomena (book). Arrow Video. 2017. p. 3. FCD1507.
  7. ↑ "About the Versions". Dario Argento's Phenomena (book). Arrow Video. 2017. p. 55. FCD1507.
  8. 1 2 Curti 2019, p. 121.
  9. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 122.
  10. ↑ "Sotto il vestito niente (1985)" (in Italian). Archivio Del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  11. ↑ Curti 2022, p. 362.
  12. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 139.
  13. ↑ Howarth 2015b, p. 140.
  14. ↑ Curti 2022, p. 367.
  15. ↑ Curti 2022, p. 9.
  16. ↑ "Opera (1987)" (in Italian). Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  17. ↑ "Opera". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  18. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 171.
  19. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 172.
  20. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 175.
  21. ↑ Cotter 2012, p. 102.
  22. ↑ Gallant 2000, p. 280.
  23. ↑ Fischer 2011, p. 139.
  24. ↑ Gallant 2000, p. 283.
  25. ↑ Manisco, Elisa (4 February 2022). "Dario Argento: tutti i miei brividi". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  26. ↑ Miska, Brad (19 January 2022). "'Dark Glasses': Dario Argento's Return to Giallo to World Premiere in Berlin!". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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