
December 15, 1936 · 89 years old
Joe D'Amato, (birth name: Aristide Massaccesi) (December 15, 1936 in Rome - January 23, 1999 in Rome) was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well. While D'Amato contribute…

A group of stage actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them.

A group of friends and a hitchhiker become stranded on a tourist island where they are stalked by a disfigured cannibalistic killer who is prowling the island after killing its residents.

A disturbed young taxidermist exhumes his recently-deceased girlfriend, takes her body to his family villa, and embalms her corpse with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.

Muscle-bound Ator and his mute East Asian sidekick travel from the ends of the earth to save his aged mentor from the evil, mustachioed Zor.

A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.

Photojournalist Emanuelle is joined by an anthropologist, two female missionary workers and a treacherous hunter's party in a search for an Amazon cannibal tribe long thought extinct.

The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and rescue his sister from the evil Dakkar and his spider cult.

A photographer and others are stranded at a Massachusetts island hotel haunted by a woman in black.

Hedonistic photojournalist Emanuelle goes undercover to expose the seedy lives of rich and powerful sex cultists and snuff film peddlers in America and Europe.

Greta, a mysterious woman with amnesia, is taken in by the wealthy Mr. and Mrs. von Ravensbruck. The three soon enter into a love triangle that turns deadly, as Greta's gruesome past is slowly revealed.

People from a small town are attacked by evil radioactive tree roots growing in the forest.

On assignment in Bangkok to interview the King of Thailand, photojournalist Emanuelle becomes entangled in political intrigue and sexual encounters with old and new lovers.

Caligula's four-year reign and descent into madness are revisited through slanderous vignettes and blunt historical facts.

Photojournalist Emanuelle encounters a guru who claims to be capable of the ultimate orgasm, and later helps a fellow reporter pursue a global woman-trafficking ring.

In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and sex. A mysterious queen moves among the elite, while secretly helping the slaves to escape.

A female journalist writing a book about sexual adventures lures a man, who's about to get married, for a sexual fling that will last for eleven days.

Lady Dracula uses Dracula's ring to lure beautiful girls to her castle, where she murders them so she can bathe in their blood.

An interview with a mobster propels newswoman Emanuelle into an undercover investigation of the seedy world of white slavery and the infamous mansion of Madame Claude.

A woman plots to take revenge on the man that abused her sister.

Eva comes to Hong Kong. Seeing Eva perform with a snake, Judas gets interested in her. He showers her with gifts. She moves in with him and his snakes. Things get grim.