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Joe D'Amato had made his mark on Italian cinema as a talented director, scriptwriter, producer and cinematographer with scores of films and more than a dozen aliases to his credit. Born December 15, 1936.
- Joe D'Amato
- January 23, 1999
- December 15, 1936
Aristide Massaccesi (15 December 1936 – 23 January 1999), known professionally as Joe D'Amato, was an Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter who worked in many genres (westerns, decamerotici, peplum, war films, swashbuckler, comedy, fantasy, postapocalyptic film, and erotic thriller) but is best known for his ...
YearTitleWorked As(director)Notes1994Il marchese De SadeYesCo-directed with Luca Damiano [376]1994Decamerone XYesCo-directed with Luca Damiano [376]1994Decamerone X 2YesCo-directed with Luca Damiano [376]1994Fantasmi al castelloYesCo-directed with Luca Damiano [376]Joe D’Amato, a director synonymous with the convergence of horror and erotica, crafted a prolific career that spans a vast genre spectrum. With a talent for intertwining intense narratives and visually captivating scenes, his repertoire remains a subject of intrigue and fascination for cinephiles.
Joe D'Amato. Director: Emanuelle and Francoise. Joe D'Amato was born Aristide Massaccesi on December 15, 1936, in Rome, Italy. At age 14 he began working for his father, a chief electrician and later the founder of the company A.C.M.
- December 15, 1936
- January 23, 1999
- Introduction
- A Kind of (Perverse) Loving: Sex, Death and D’Amato
- The Uncanny Effect: Freud and The Gothic
- ’70s Gothic: Beyond The Darkness
- The Uncanny Woman’S Gaze
- A Historical Unheimliche: D’Amato’S “Period Erotic” Narratives
Over the last decade, critics and theorists have made a number of advances in reclaiming those popular European texts and auteurs previously dismissed as examples of “trash” or “bad” cinema. A large part of this reassessment has focused on the key directors, stars and styles that dominated Italian horror cinema between the years of 1962 and 1985. W...
One such figure whose work is yet to receive such a critical revaluation is the late sex and death maestro Aristide Massaccesi. In a career that spanned over 45 years, Massaccesi worked in a variety of Italian exploitation genres such as horror, pornography (soft and hardcore), post-apocalypse science fiction, mythical adventure and the erotic thri...
What unites both D’Amato’s works with those discussed by Freud is the way in which desire, repetition and prohibition traverse the boundaries of the familiar and the horrific. As indicated in Death Smiles on a Murderer, it is often the reappearance of a dead female lover that disturbs such stable categories. As Freud noted, although writers such as...
The patterns of fatalistic voyeurism, doubling and traumatic repetition that D’Amato established in his first film were themselves the basis of a pattern that was replayed in his later Gothic horror works. For instance, Beyond the Darknessconflates sexuality with death via the exploration of the relationship between a lethal taxidermist named Frank...
If the “Uncanny woman” remains a potent figure within Gothic fiction, as McCaffrey has suggested, her existence can be seen in the dead and monstrous female doubles that populate Joe D’Amato’s Gothic horror productions. Beyond this literal and horrific splitting of female subjectivity, what also defines the power of the “Uncanny Woman” in the Gothi...
As the above analysis indicates, Joe D’Amato’s 1970s horror films can clearly be analysed as “uncanny”, using both Freud’s account, as well as the recent revisions of these ideas. By way of conclusion, it is also worth considering the extent to which these concerns are also reproduced in his later 1980s works. Although the director’s work during th...
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1. I predatori delle Antille. Sir Francis Hamilton, ambassador of King Charles II, sails from England to Jamaica where he has to sign a peace treaty with France. On the way to the Caribbean his ship is attacked by a band of pirates, headed by the dreadfully renowned George Rackman.
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Sep 10, 2021 · After ten shorts and one feature length documentary, Gomascara teams with Massimiliano Zanin to shed light on the Italian cinematographer, producer and director Aristide Massaccesi who built his career under the name Joe D’Amato (at the same time working under many other aliases).
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