Claudio Fragasso was born on 2 October 1951 and is a film director and screenwriter.
18 Facts About Claudio Fragasso
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Claudio Fragasso met director Bruno Mattei, which led to a ten-year partnership from 1980 to 1990 during which the two worked together closely on films, with Claudio Fragasso's contributions often going uncredited.
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Claudio Fragasso's wife Rossella Drudi was a screenwriter and collaborated with him on a number of projects.
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Claudio Fragasso directed Troll 2 in 1989, which was later the topic of Best Worst Movie, a documentary film that discussed Troll 2s fandom.
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Claudio Fragasso worked on the screenplays on several Italian crime thrillers in the 1970s.
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Claudio Fragasso met director Bruno Mattei when Mattei was still an assistant editor and they immediately got along well with one another as they both enjoyed genre films.
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In 1980, Mattei began a close collaboration with screenwriter Claudio Fragasso, beginning with The True Story of the Nun of Monza and ending with a comedy called Three For One.
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Claudio Fragasso stated his first films with Mattei were The True Story of the Nun of Monza and The Other Hell, which were filmed simultaneously to save money.
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Claudio Fragasso spoke positively on working with Gemser, stating that "compared to the starlets of today, she was virtually a nun, the absolute opposite of a porn star".
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Claudio Fragasso would collaborate on the two Westerns Mattei directed in the 1980s: Scalps and White Apache.
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Claudio Fragasso appeared in small roles in some of his films, such as Robowar and Cop Game.
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In 1986, Claudio Fragasso made a film on his own without Mattei titled Monster Dog for producer Eduard Sarlui, starring musician Alice Cooper.
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Director Fulci had to leave the Philippines set before completing the film, leading to Drudi and Claudio Fragasso having to re-write and expand the script in one day, the film's directing chores being completed by Bruno Mattei who was working in the Philippines at the time.
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Claudio Fragasso flew there the next day to assist Mattei with the filming.
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Rosella met the producer Sarlui and he had a mask from the film Troll which Claudio Fragasso had not seen.
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Claudio Fragasso stated their film was originally to be titled Goblins and was written with Drudi as a more family-oriented horror film with humor about goblins who hated carnivorous humans as the goblins were vegetarians.
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Claudio Fragasso is credited as Drako Floyd, a pen name created by Drudi from the Dragon sign in the Chinese zodiac and for the band Pink Floyd.
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Claudio Fragasso continued to make several films for both theatrical and television release, culminating in his 2007 sequel to Palermo - Milan One Way which was called Milano Palermo - il ritorno.