José Luis Merino

Jose Luis Merino 10 June 1927 2 July 2019 was a Spanish film writer and director who developed a cult following among horror film fans He was born in 1927 in Madrid Spain as José Luis Merino Boves and went on to direct around 30 films during his long and varied career as director and writer 19581990 most of them actionadventure films crime dramas spaghetti westerns war movies and costume dramas involving Robin Hood pirates Zorro etc He is known to horror film fans for the two horror movies he directed in the early 1970s Orgy of the Dead aka The Hanging Woman and Scream of the Demon Lover aka Ivanna which have both become cult classics over the years Merino never considered himself a horror film director he chose rather to favor his many actionadventure films He died on July 2 2019 at age 92