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Amazing how much of so many films can be explained by "we had nowhere near enough money so we got up to the following shenanigans"!
Thus endeth my semi-live (stop motion?) tooting on FantastiCozzi (2016), documentary abou scifi director Luigi Cozzi.
Interesting, but would have been more so if they'd also interviewed people other than him (Argento, actors, producers etc) & presented some critical views too
Cozzi didn't direct a feature film for 27 years until he made "Blood on Méliès Moon" in 2016 (an homage to a century of his favourite scifi films, partly filmed in the Profondo Rosso shop), & 3 more since
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172826/
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=Luigi%20Cozzi&person_id=113446
Dario didn't hold it against Luigi, and they even opened together a horror/scifi bookshop/publisher in Rome called Profondo Rosso (after Dario's 1975 horror of that name).
At he same time, Cozzi was FX supervisor on a Dario Argento film with Harvey Keitel called... The Black Cat. Dario was a little perturbed when "The Black Cat by Luigi Cozzi" was announced!
Dario's Black Cat became a segment in the anthology film Two Evil Eyes
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/two-evil-eyes
Also in 1989, Cozzi reunited with Caroline Munro (after failing to convince producers to cast her in Contamination & Hercules) for De Profundis, a meta horror inspired by Dario Argento's Suspiria & Inferno. The US distributors called him up & said "We have the rights to the name Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat" & told him to just throw in a scene with a black cat to justify the new title!
Cozzi also wanted Caroline Munro in Contamination, but the producer insisted on an actress recommended by Sergio Leone
& he wanted her in Hercules too, but the producers didn't want to deal with her husband
I need to check out those films you mentioned, haven't seen them
In 1989 Cozzi was again hired by Cannon to fix & reshoot an unreleased/unreleasable Lou Ferrigno movie, Sinbad of the Seven Seas. (Lou didn't get conned into making a whole new film this time!)
Presumably this will be the next film Monsterdonians vote for after Golden Voyage of Sinbad π
Cozzi then helmed a film w/ Donald Pleasance where a female rock band record a lost Paganini score, thus resurrecting the composer from the dead!
Cozzi reunited with Christopher Plummer for Nosferatu in Venice, with main star Klaus Kinski chewing his way thru at least 5 directors before shooting completed. Indeed Kinski took over as director of his own scenes, requiring Cozzi to come shoot him walking aimlessly around Venice every dawn for 2 months
