Sergio Salvati – Rest in Peace

September 18, 2025 by Jon Kitley in Rest in Peace and tagged City oft the Living Dead, Crawlspace, House by the Cemetery, Lucio Fulci, Puppet Master, Sergio Leone, Sergio Salvati, The Beyond, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, The Psychic, The Wax Mask, Zombie | Leave a comment

If you don’t recognize Salvati’s name, if you’re a regular here, then you know his work. He was a cinematographer that worked with Lucio Fulci on 11 different films, including some of his best titles. Films like The Psychic (1977), Zombie (1979), City of the Living Dead (1980), The Beyond (1981), and House by the Cemetery (1981). He worked on what was supposed to be Fulci’s big return with The Wax Mask (1997), but Fulci passed away, but Salvati still worked on it with the new director, Sergio Stivaletti. He also worked with Charles Band on Crawlspace (1986) and Puppet Master (1989).

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Grindhouse Releasing Goes into The Beyond 4K!

March 16, 2025 by Jon Kitley in Misc. Ramblings and tagged 7 Doors of Death, Al Cliver, Catriona MacColl, Cinzia Monreale, Dardano Sacchetti, David Warbeck, Fabio Frizzi, Fabrizio De Angelis, Giannetto De Rossi, Giovanni De Nava, Grindhouse Releasing, Lucio Fulci, Massimo Vanni, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Sergio Salvati, Terry Levene, The Beyond | Leave a comment

“Woe be unto him who opens one of the seven gateways to Hell,
because through that gateway, evil will invade the world.”

It looks like Grindhouse Releasing will be opening that gateway once again, with their new special edition of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond (1981). And this looks to be one amazing release that all Fulci fans are going to want to have.

This new “Super-Deluxe” collector’s edition will come with 6 discs: 1 UHD, 3 Blu-Rays, 1 DVD, and 1 CD. The UHD is from a new 4K scan from the original Techniscope camera negative. Besides that, there will be The Beyond: The Composer’s Cut, featuring a new 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Surround sound remix and an all-new reimagined score created by original composer Fabio Frizzi, mixed Jussi Tegelman.

This will have 3 different audio commentaries, 1 from cinematographer Sergio Salvati, 1 from makeup artist Giannetto De Rossi, and then 1 from actors David Warbeck and Catriona MacColl. Some of these have already left us, so it is so great to be able to keep their memories of working on the film alive.

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Movie Review: Fulci for Fake

October 29, 2020 by Jon Kitley in Misc. Ramblings and tagged Antonella Fulci, Berenice Sparano, Camilla Fulci, Enrico Vanzina, Fabio Frizzi, Fulci for Fake, Lucio Fulci, Michele Romagnoli, Michele Soavi, Paolo Malco, Sandro Bitetto, Sergio Salvati, Severin, Severin Films, Simone Scafidi | 1 Comment

Fulci for Fake
Written and Directed by Simone Scafidi

Starring Fabio Frizzi, Paolo Malco, Sergio Salvati, Michele Soavi, Sandro Bitetto, Enrico Vanzina, Berenice Sparano, Michele Romagnoli, Davide Pulici, and Camilla and Antonella Fulci.

When I first read of this new biography being made on Lucio Fulci, of course, I was skeptical. A lot of biographical films tend to exaggerate things to tell a better story, instead of sticking to the truth. But after watching it, I now realize that it is something completely different. It is like if someone is going to make this biographical film, hires an actor to play Fulci, then the actor decides to go out to talk to the people that knew and worked with him, to give him some insight to this enigmatic man. And they did it brilliantly. So it is really more interviews and stories, interlaced with tons of photos and home movies showing a side of this director that we hadn’t seen before. Continue reading →