Franco Ferrini

Franco Ferrini
Born	(1944-01-05) 5 January 1944 (age 81) La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
Occupation	Screenwriter
Known for	collaborations 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]

Select filmography

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

References

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. 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.
27. "Berlin Review: Dario Argento's 'Dark Glasses'". Deadline. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2023.

Bibliography

• Cotter, Robert Michael Bobb (2012). Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy: A Complete Annotated Record of Film and Television Appearances. McFarland. ISBN   978-0786468829.
• Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN   978-0786469765.
• Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN   978-1476672434.
• Curti, Roberto (2022). Italian Giallo in Film and Television. McFarland. ISBN   978-1-4766-8248-8.
• Fischer, Dennis (2011). Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895-1998. McFarland. ISBN   978-0786485055.
• Gallant, Chris (2000). Art of Darkness: The Cinema of Dario Argento. FAB Press. ISBN   1903254078.
• Howarth, Troy (2015). Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. Midnight Marquee Press.
• Howarth, Troy (2015b). So Deadly, So Perverse. Vol. 2. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN   978-1936168583.

External links

• Franco Ferrini at IMDb