Alberto De Martino

Alberto De Martino 12 June 1929 2 June 2015 was an Italian film director and screenwriter Born in Rome De Martino started as a child actor and later returned to the cinema where worked as a screenwriter director and dubbing supervisor De Martinos films as a director specialised in wellcrafted knockoffs of Hollywood hit films These films were specifically created films in Western horror and mythology genres which were developed for the international market The Telegraph stated that his best known of these film was probably The Antichrist The Antichrist capitalized on the boxoffice appeal of The Exorcist 1973 and in its first week in the United States earned a greater box office than Jaws