JTB Claudio Fragasso - 29 Classic Movies (Comedy/Drama/Crime/Sci-Fi/Thriller/Horror)
Claudio Fragasso was born 2 October 1951 and is an Italian screenwriter and film director of mostly low-budget exploitation films. He frequently co-wrote his scripts with his wife Rosella Drudi, and is mostly famous for his many collaborations with notorious Italian horror film director Bruno Mattei.
In 1984, Fragasso directed his debut feature, Monster Dog, starring Alice Cooper as a rock-star werewolf.
In 2007, Michael Stephenson who, as a child, played Joshua Waites in Fragasso's cult horror film Troll 2, along with George Hardy who played Joshua's father Michael, flew to Rome to inform Fragasso about the large number of Troll 2 fans in America, and of the many people who show up at the Troll 2 screenings. Claudio and his wife Rossella Drudi who wrote the film flew to America, and have attended a few Troll 2 screenings. Claudio also took part in a documentary titled Best Worst Movie which was directed by Michael Stephenson. In addition, he and his wife toured the original locations of Troll 2 in Utah, with their fans.
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In 1984, Fragasso directed his debut feature, Monster Dog, starring Alice Cooper as a rock-star werewolf.
In 2007, Michael Stephenson who, as a child, played Joshua Waites in Fragasso's cult horror film Troll 2, along with George Hardy who played Joshua's father Michael, flew to Rome to inform Fragasso about the large number of Troll 2 fans in America, and of the many people who show up at the Troll 2 screenings. Claudio and his wife Rossella Drudi who wrote the film flew to America, and have attended a few Troll 2 screenings. Claudio also took part in a documentary titled Best Worst Movie which was directed by Michael Stephenson. In addition, he and his wife toured the original locations of Troll 2 in Utah, with their fans.
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- DirectorBruno MatteiClaudio FragassoStarsMargie NewtonFranco GarofaloSelan KarayAfter an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsAntonio PiovanelliSaverio MarconiLeonora FaniAngelo, a young missionary, decides to return to Rome, after twelve years of absence, because he feels he can not continue to undertake the ecclesiastical way.
- DirectorBruno MatteiClaudio FragassoStarsLou FerrignoSybil DanningBrad HarrisA bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.
- DirectorBruno MatteiClaudio FragassoStarsOttaviano Dell'AcquaGeretta GerettaMassimo VanniIn a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but the place is run over by vicious rats.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsAlice CooperVictoria VeraCarlos SanturioA rock star returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video while a pack of wild dogs are on the loose killing off the local residents.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoBruno MatteiStarsSebastian HarrisonLola FornerAlberto FarneseOutlaws attack a band of settlers and kill everyone except a pregnant woman who's rescued by a band of Indians. The woman dies giving birth but Chief White Bear adopts her male baby, naming him "Shining Sky," and raising him as brother to his own son, Black Wolf. The boys grow up together and good-naturedly compete for the affections of pretty Rising Star. In a competition, Shining Sky accidentally kills Black Wolf, is forced from the tribe, and finds work in a nearby town where he pretends to be a mute. A townswoman named Isabella flirts with him but when he spurns her she yells "Rape!" Bart Ryder, henchman of the local "Colonel," runs Shining Sky out of town, hangs him by the wrists, and leaves him to die. Crazy Bull rescues Shining Sky and takes him back to the Indian village where he's reunited with Rising Star. Ryder, however, seeks to finish the job of killing the "White Apache."
- DirectorBruno MatteiStarsVassili KarisMapi GalánAlberto FarneseThe commander of a Texan fort in the Civil War refuses to surrender to the Northerners, and tries to buy the local Indian tribe chief's daughter. The sage man refuses, and the Southerners massacre the tribe and abduct the young squaw anyway. The noble squaw manages to escape, and hides out with a rough rancher, who dislikes Indians, but hates the Southerners more. The odd couple joins forces, and tactics, to exert ultimate vengeance on the men at the fort.
- DirectorLucio FulciClaudio FragassoBruno MatteiStarsDeran SarafianBeatrice RingOttaviano Dell'AcquaWhen a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island.
- DirectorBruno MatteiClaudio FragassoStarsBrent HuffMary StavinRichard HarrisAn ex-army major is kidnapped by terrorists in the Philippines, demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds. Michael, a Vietnam vet who served under him, goes on a solo mission determined to rescue him.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsJeff StrykerCandice DalyMassimo VanniA woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a group of mercenaries and they meet up with some other researchers. They raise the dead again and all hell breaks loose.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsGene LeBrockDavid BrandonBarbara BinghamA minister and his wife move into a haunted house.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoBruno MatteiStarsPeter HootenTara BuckmanRichard FosterA surviving amnesiac victim of a serial killer is terrorized while the police works with a psychiatrist to bring him to justice and stop the crime wave.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsMichael Paul StephensonGeorge HardyMargo PreyA vacationing family discovers that the entire town they're visiting is inhabited by goblins, disguised as humans, who plan to eat them.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsGianmarco TognazziFranca BettoiaFlavio BucciMarco, 22 years old, lives in a Roma's suburb. His life goes on without any goal in an anonymous way. His only successful situation is his relationship with Zaira, a Somalian girl. While spending days uselessly, he meets Saverio, AKAS "The Fuhrer", head of a bunch of Nazi skins. He is fascinated by Saverio's world and tries all he can do to enter the fascist group. From that point on his life is deeply involved with the group activity. He tries to hide his relationship with Zaira, but the destiny is waiting for the final count.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsGiancarlo GianniniRaoul BovaRicky MemphisTuri Leofonte (Giannini) is a former mafioso who accepts to be a witness at a process involving very important people in the organization. For the Mafia, Leofonte is dangerous, that's why he has to be killed. A police group led by Nino Di Venanzio(Bova) accepts to protect him and to escort him till Milan where the process has to take place.
- DirectorSergio CittiVolfango De BiasiMaurizio Dell'OrsoStarsElena Sofia RicciMassimo WertmüllerSal BorgeseThe end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsRaoul BovaRaz DeganLaura Morantevery original thriller plot in this movie of 1998, as strong as unusual for an Italian movie, which addresses most issues within the thriller, and before, anticipating many years, dependence on today's technologies.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsFrancesco NutiAlessandro BenvenutiAntonella PonzianiFrancesco De Bernardi is the chief commissioner of the homicide squad. He has a no-global child who challenges him.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsGiancarlo GianniniRaoul BovaRicky MemphisAfter 11 years in prison, Mafia accountant Turi Arcangelo Leofonte can return to freedom.
- DirectorMike BaronasKit GavinStarsClaudio AliottiLucio FulciAdelaide AsteThe life & times of the "Godfather of Gore" as seen through the eyes of his colleagues & peers.
- DirectorMichael Paul StephensonStarsGeorge HardyPita RayMicki KnoxA look at the making of the film Troll 2 (1990) and its journey from being crowned the "worst film of all time" to a cherished cult classic.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsBarbora BobulovaClaudio FragassoLuca LionelloColonel Moresco and twelve of his soldiers occupy a Sicilian hospital, taking all patients and doctors hostages and giving an ultimatum to the Italian Government: if Rome will not admit its role in having hided the proofs of the use of depleted uranium's weapons in the Balcan Wars and the subsequent, countless cases of cancer among the soldiers of the Italian Army due to it within 56 hours, all of the hostages will be killed. The negotiator Paolo Manfredi is called in order to save the hostages, not knowing that his wife and his daughter are among them.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsValeria AltobelliSimona BorioniRocco CiarmoliOne evening Sergio, organizer of Halloween parties, manages to save his son from a woman possessed by the ghost of a girl who died in 1500, relied on by mistake during a seance organized for the purpose of deceiving people.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsJerry CalàEnzo SalviMaurizio MattioliOn the run from a gang of killers, a man becomes part of the staff of a summer camp.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsMaurizio Matteo MerliMiguel Gobbo DiazYdalia SuarezBenito, called "Benny", is a black guy who had been adopted by an Italian couple, but he remained alone in the world after his parents died.