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Franco Ferrini

{{short description|Italian screenwriter}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}

{{BLP sources|date=February 2011}}

{{infobox person

| name = Franco Ferrini

| birth_place = La Spezia, Liguria, Italy

| birth_date = {{birth_date and age|1944|01|05|df=y}}

| occupation = Screenwriter

| known_for = collaborations with Dario Argento

}}

Franco Ferrini (born 5 January 1944) is an Italian screenwriter. His works often fall into the genres of horror{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Kevin|title=Demons: an orgy of gore|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pc8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=laYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2756,1256796&dq=franco-ferrini&hl=en|access-date=6 February 2011|newspaper=Anchorage Daily News|date=18 September 1986}} or thriller. He was one of the interviewees represented in the book Spaghetti Nightmares.{{cite book|title=Spaghetti nightmares: Italian fantasy-horrors as seen through the eyes of their protagonists|year=1996|publisher=Fantasma Books|location=Key West, Fla.|isbn=978-0-9634982-7-4|pages=7, 49–54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RAUIAQAAMAAJ&q=Franco+Ferrini+horror|author=Luca M. Palmerini|edition=1st American|author2=Gaetano Mistretta|editor=Margot Winick|access-date=6 February 2011}}

Select filmography

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scope="row"|Crimebusters

|1976

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=170}}

scope="row"|Red Rings of Fear

|1978

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|url=https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/orgie-des-todes_ea43d4a78fc05006e03053d50b37753d|publisher=Filmportal.de|title=Orgie des Todes|access-date=February 20, 2019|language=German}}

scope="row"|Once Upon a Time in America

|1984

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57162-ONCE-UPONATIMEINAMERICA?sid=fa9e0fe3-4928-4877-9e41-8e25035ef366&sr=15.225236&cp=1&pos=0|publisher=American Film Institute|title=Once Upon a Time in America|access-date=March 24, 2020}}

scope="row"|Phenomena

|1985

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite AV media notes|title=Dario Argento's Phenomena|chapter=Cast and Crew|year=2017|page=3|type=book|publisher=Arrow Video|ID=FCD1507}}{{Cite AV media notes|title=Dario Argento's Phenomena|chapter=About the Versions|year=2017|page=55|type=book|publisher=Arrow Video|ID=FCD1507}}

scope="row"|Demons

|1985

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=121}}{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=122}}

scope="row"|Nothing Underneath

|1985

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=121}}{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG5202|title=Sotto il vestito niente (1985)|accessdate=September 27, 2022|language=Italian|publisher=Archivio Del Cinema Italiano}}{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=362}}

scope="row"|Demons 2

|1986

| {{yes}}

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=139}}

scope="row"|Sweets from a Stranger

|1987

| {{yes}}

|{{yes}}

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|Director

|style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Howarth|2015b|p=140}}{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=367}}{{sfn|Curti|2022|p=9}}

scope="row"|Opera

|1987

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=CD7509|publisher=Archivio del Cinema Italiano|title=Opera (1987)|accessdate=November 9, 2023|language=Italian}}{{cite web|url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150328262|publisher=British Film Institute|work=BFI Film & TV Database|accessdate=November 9, 2023|title=Opera}}

scope="row"|{{sort|Chruch|The Church}}

|1989

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=171}}{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=172}}

scope="row"|Etoile

|1989

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=175}}

scope="row"|Two Evil Eyes

|1990

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Cotter|2012|p=102}}{{sfn|Gallant|2000|p=280}}

scope="row"|{{sort|Stendhal Syndrome|The Stendhal Syndrome}}

|1996

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{sfn|Fischer|2011|p=139}}{{sfn|Gallant|2000|p=283}}

scope="row"|Dark Glasses

|2022

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|style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/venerdi/2022/02/04/news/dario_argento_occhiali_neri_intervista_nuovo_film_ilenia_pastorelli_asia_argento_gaspar_noe_sergio_leone_infanzia_horror_us-335915934/|title=Dario Argento: tutti i miei brividi|last=Manisco|first=Elisa|date=4 February 2022|work=la Repubblica|language=it|access-date=8 February 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3699672/dark-glasses-dario-argentos-return-giallo-world-premiere-berlin/|title='Dark Glasses': Dario Argento's Return to Giallo to World Premiere in Berlin!|last=Miska|first=Brad|date=19 January 2022|website=Bloody Disgusting|access-date=8 February 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/dark-glasses-review-dario-argento-asia-argento-berlin-film-festival-1234931781/|publisher=Deadline|title=Berlin Review: Dario Argento's 'Dark Glasses'|date=February 11, 2022|accessdate=March 15, 2023}}

References

{{Reflist}}

=Sources=

=Bibliography=

  • {{cite book

|last1=Cotter

|first1=Robert Michael Bobb

|title=Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy: A Complete Annotated Record of Film and Television Appearances

|publisher=McFarland

|isbn=978-0786468829

|year=2012

}}

  • {{cite book|last=Curti|first=Roberto|title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786469765|year=2013}}
  • {{cite book | last= Curti | first= Roberto | title= Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 |publisher= McFarland |year= 2019 |isbn= 978-1476672434}}
  • {{cite book|last=Curti|first=Roberto|title=Italian Giallo in Film and Television|year=2022|publisher=McFarland|ISBN=978-1-4766-8248-8}}
  • {{cite book

|last=Fischer

|first=Dennis

|title=Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895-1998

|publisher=McFarland

|isbn=978-0786485055

|year=2011

}}

  • {{cite book|last=Gallant|first=Chris|title=Art of Darkness: The Cinema of Dario Argento|publisher=FAB Press|year=2000|isbn=1903254078}}
  • {{cite book|last=Howarth|first=Troy|year=2015|title=Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films|publisher=Midnight Marquee Press}}
  • {{cite book |last=Howarth |first=Troy |title=So Deadly, So Perverse |publisher=Midnight Marquee Press |date=2015b |volume=2 |isbn=978-1936168583 }}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0274853}}

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Category:1944 births

Category:Living people

Category:Italian screenwriters

Category:People from La Spezia

Category:Giallo film directors

Category:Italian male screenwriters

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