Bruno Mattei

Biography

Bruno Mattei (30 July 1931 – 21 May 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor who directed exploitation films in many genres, including women in prison, nunsploitation, zombie, mondo, cannibal, and Nazisploitation films. Born in 1931, Bruno Mattei grew up in Rome, Italy, where his father owned a small film editing studio. Mattei made his debut as a director with the drama Armida, il dramma di una sposa(1970) under the alias "Jordon B. Matthews". He eventually had more pseudonyms than any working director in the world. He returned to editing before making another comeback in 1976 with two low-budget Nazi exploitation films, Women's Camp 119 (1977) (aka "Women's Camp 119") and Casa privata per le SS (1977) (aka "SS Girls"). Mattei followed these taboo-breaking films with excursions into porno films and mondo "shockumentaries", all directed under his many pseudonyms, concentrating on "shock value" with films such as Mondo erotico (1973), "Libiodomania" and "Libidomania 2". Always on the lookout for new exploitation avenues, Mattei followed with "nunsploitation", with the softcore sex film La vera storia della monaca di Monza (1980) and the violent sex thriller The O…

Directed

1. Night of the Zombies (1980) — Director
2. Rats: Night of Terror (1984) — Director
3. Cruel Jaws (1995) — Director
4. Shocking Dark (1989) — Director
5. Violence in a Women's Prison (1982) — Director
6. Women's Prison Massacre (1983) — Director
7. Private House of the SS (1977) — Director
8. The Jail: The Women's Hell (2006) — Director
9. Robowar (1988) — Director
10. Night Killer (1990) — Director
11. Caligula and Messalina (1981) — Director
12. The Other Hell (1981) — Director
13. Strike Commando (1987) — Director
14. The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980) — Director
15. Strike Commando 2 (1988) — Director
16. Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2 (1978) — Director
17. The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983) — Director
18. Scalps (1987) — Director
19. Zombies: The Beginning (2007) — Director
20. Sexy Night Report (1977) — Director
21. Snuff Trap (2004) — Director
22. The Tomb (2006) — Director
23. White Apache (1987) — Director
24. Cannibal World (2004) — Director
25. In the Land of the Cannibals (2004) — Director
26. Double Target (1987) — Director
27. Island of the Living Dead (2007) — Director
28. Women's Camp 119 (1977) — Director
29. Cop Game (1988) — Director
30. Libidomania (1979) — Director
31. Cicciolina amore mio (1979) — Director
32. Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power (1982) — Director
33. Three for One (1990) — Director
34. The Other Woman (2002) — Director
35. Killing Striptease (2002) — Director
36. Desire (1990) — Director
37. Madness (1994) — Director
38. Born to Fight (1989) — Director
39. Telephone Murder (1994) — Director
40. Love Sacrifice (1976) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 (1988) — Soldier at creamatorum (uncredited)
2. Night of the Zombies (1980) — SWAT Officer at Embassy Siege (uncredited)
3. Night Killer (1990) — Reporter with yellow scarf (uncredited)
4. Zombies: The Beginning (2007) — Himself (uncredited)
5. Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008) — Self
6. Legittima vendetta (1995) — Regista del provino (uncredited)
7. The Films of Bruno Mattei (2016)