Umberto Lenzi
Movies
- 008: Operation Exterminate (1965)
- Almost Human (1975)
- Attentato ai tre grandi (1967)
- Black Cobra
- Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave (1976)
- Cannibal Ferox (1981)
- Demoni 3 (1991)
- Hitcher in the Dark (1989)
- Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio
- Incubo sulla città contaminata
- La Casa 3 (1988)
- La montagna di luce (1965)
- Mangiati Vivi (1980)
- Milano Rovente (1973)
- Napoli violenta (1976)
- Nightmare Beach (1988)
- Pirates of Malaysia
- Rome Armed to the Teeth
- Sandokan the Great (1963)
- Seven Blood Stained Orchids (1972)
- Spasmo (1974)
- Superseven chiama Cairo (1965)
- Syndicate Sadists (1976)
- Welcome to Spring Break (1988)
Umberto Lenzi (born August 6, 1931), is an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, spaghetti westerns, war movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries (in addition to writing many of the screenplays himself). Lenzi was born in Massa Marittima, Grosseto, southern Tuscany. He is the writer/director of two highly controversial exploitation films: Mangiati vivi (1980) and Cannibal Ferox (1981) as well as the director of the film adaptation of the Italian comic book Kriminal (1966). He was one of the first Italian directors to get involved in the Giallo film craze (along with Mario Bava and Dario Argento), and his "Man From Deep River" is credited as being the film that started the Italian "cannibal film" genre later popularized by Ruggero Deodato, Jess Franco and others. Lenzi has claimed in interviews however that he was never too enamored of the cannibal films he made, being much prouder of his war films and crime/ western/ action movies. In spite of his moments of ground-breaking originality, however, Lenzi wasn't above "cloning" popular hit movies such as "Conan The Barbarian" (with his 1982 "Ironmaster") and "Dawn of the Dead" (with his
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