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- Film historian and critic Tim Lucas described Gastaldi as the first Italian screenwriter to specialize in horror and thriller films. Gastaldi worked within several popular genres including pepla, Western and spy films.
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Ernesto Gastaldi (born 10 September 1934) is an Italian screenwriter. Film historian and critic Tim Lucas described Gastaldi as the first Italian screenwriter to specialize in horror and thriller films. Gastaldi worked within several popular genres including pepla, Western and spy films.
Graduated in direction and screenwriting at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Roma in 1957 and in Economy in 1967. He wrote more than one hundred movies of all kind and a dozen of novels. He signed some scripts and his SF novels as Julian Berry.
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Ernesto Gastaldi wrote more than a hundred movies in the heyday of Italian genre cinema. Among them Mario Bava’s THE WHIP AND THE BODY, Umberto Lenzi’s ALMOST HUMAN and the Sergio Leone produced MY NAME IS NOBODY.
Aug 29, 2019 · A list that highlights the extraordinary ductility of such a prolific writer, who during those years combined with a pair of unparalleled currents as different as the peplum, the spy film, the Gothic terror, the war, the police and the comedy. Although if there is a genre in which his work stands out above others, this is undoubtedly the giallo.
May 12, 2013 · I became aware of the work of the talented and prolific Italian screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi as I prepared to do audio commentary, with fellow western writer C. Courtney Joyner, for Blue Underground’s DVD release of Gastaldi’s THE GRAND DUEL, starring Lee Van Cleef (you can read my review HERE.)
Some of his work includes My Name Is Nobody, Torso, A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot, The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh, Day of Anger, All the Colors of the Dark, The Whip and the Body, and Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key.
Graduated in direction and screenwriting at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Roma in 1957 and in Economy in 1967. He wrote more than one hundred movies of all kind and a dozen of novels. He signed some scripts and his SF novels as Julian Berry.
