Biografia

His films are excessively gory and bloody. Supposedly the goriest filmmaker ever.

Makes cameo appearances in his horror films usually playing a doctor, policeman or newspaper man.

Lead male characters are usually a doctor, reporter (two of his former professions) or a policeman.

Close-ups of actors eyes during frightening or tense scenes.

Lots of zoom-ins, especially on gore.

Was an orthodox Marxist, although leftist critics frequently slated his movies.

Used to be a medical student and an art critic before his career in film.

Before his untimely death, was to direct a remake of the 1933 classic La maschera di cera (1933).

Together with Jesús Franco Fulci had 3 films listed on the original UK list of 74 official video nasties, namely Zombi 2 (1979), ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà (1981) and Quella villa accanto al cimitero (1981). His Paura nella città dei morti viventi (1980) narrowly missed the list following its recall and his later Lo squartatore di New York (1982) was not only banned in the UK but also deported from the country by censor James Ferman.

Italian exploitation director Umberto Lenzi reportedly attended his funeral.

Cinema is everything to me. I live and breathe films -- I even eat them!

The budgets are the only difference between Dario Argento and myself. We are doing the same stuff.

Violence is Italian art!

[on actress Daniela Doria] Doria was one of my favorite actresses. I killed her so many times.

I feel that Zombie is an authentic zombie film. I wanted to send them back to their origins. That is why we shot the film in Santa Domingo. My inspiration came from Jacques Tourneur, not George Romero.