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 Martino's films as a director specialised in well-crafted knock-offs of Hollywood hit films.^[1] These films were specifically created films in Western, horror and mythology genres which were developed for the international market.^[1] The Telegraph stated that his best known of these film was probably The Antichrist.^[1] The Antichrist capitalized on the box-office appeal of The Exorcist (1973) and in its first week in the United States earned a greater box office than Jaws.^[1]