Ovidio G. Assonitis
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Ovidio Assonitis was born on January 18, 1943 in Alexandria, Egypt.
He was a prolific film-maker working as Director, Screenwriter and Producer.
Assonitis started working in Italy directing the movie Chi sei? (1974) (released in USA as Beyond the Door). The film was a rip-off of the movie The Exorcist so Warner Bros. took legal action. However in Italy the movie was successful.
Between 1970 and 1980 he tried again with horror movies following the way opened by Jaws: he first directed Tentacoli (1977) then produced Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) firing the Director James Cameron during post-production and deciding the final cut himself.
[edit] Filmography
- 1991 Beyond the Door 3
- 1991 Out of Control
- 1990 Midnight Ride
- 1988 Sonny Boy (1990)
- 1988 Curse II: the Bite
- 1987 Iron Warrior
- 1987 The Curse
- 1986 Choke Canyon
- 1984 Madhouse
- 1981 Piranha II: The Spawning
- 1981 Desperate Moves
- 1980 The Visitor
- 1978 Questo Si Che รจ Amore
(sometimes credited as Oliver Hellman)
