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Umberto Lenzi est né à Massa Marittima, dans la province de Grosseto, le 6 août 1931. Il est diplômé du Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia en 1956. À cette occasion, il réalise un court-métrage intitulé I ragazzi di Trastevere, une histoire d'inspiration pasolinienne, dont Pasolini approuva le scénario, sur un groupe de jeunes gens d'un quartier populaire romain.
Cannibal Ferox, also known as Make Them Die Slowly in the US and as Woman from Deep River in Australia, is a 1981 Italian cannibal exploitation horror film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi. Upon its release, the film's US distributor claimed it was "the most violent film ever made". Cannibal Ferox was also claimed to be " banned in 31 ...
UMBERTO LENZI. Umbert Lenzi, who died in 2017, left us many enjoyable gialli, poliziotteschi and cannibal movies. He also left interviewer Barend de Voogd with the memory of this particularly hot-tempered talk, during the Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels in March 2012. The day before, Lenzi had caused a row during the screening of one of his ...
Italian director Umberto Lenzi had recently completed a landmark string of kinky gialli with Hollywood outcast Carroll Baker. Cuban-born/Actor’s Studio-trained Tomas Milian had become one of Spaghetti Westerns’ most popular stars. But when these two notoriously mercurial talents came together for a series of shocking Poliziotteschi –reactionary crime films that reflected the political ...
On January 31st, Severin Films unleashes two definitive action releases: Violent Streets: The Umberto Lenzi/Tomas Milian Collection includes ALMOST HUMAN, SYNDICATE SADISTS, FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP, THE CYNIC, THE RAT AND THE FIST and BROTHERS TILL WE DIE.
Spasmo: Directed by Umberto Lenzi. With Robert Hoffmann, Suzy Kendall, Ivan Rassimov, Adolfo Lastretti. Young couple interrupted during intimacy by disturbing discovery of a mutilated mannequin at beach ruins. Mysterious man present flees before being questioned, leaving couple unsettled and the night's events unresolved.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces looks at Visconti's 1973 film. Umberto Lenzi movie reviews & film summaries | Roger Ebert
