Dardano Sacchetti

Dardano Sacchetti (born 1944) is an Italian screenwriter who often worked with Italian directors Lamberto Bava and Lucio Fulci.

Screenwriting

Sacchetti was born in 1944, in Italy. His first screen credit was for Dario Argento's film The Cat o' Nine Tails. He predominantly worked with Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava.

He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s. Sacchetti stated that for his screenplays, he would only learn who the director would be a week before the film went into production.

Producers such as De Angelis would come to him and ask him to write two to five lines for a film in various genres such as adventure films, westerns and pornography. Following this posters would be made for the films. When Foreign production had found interest in his write-ups, he would state that De Angelis would phone him and tell him which of the stories he had potential to sell and to write the scripts immediately.

He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s. As of 2017, Sacchetti was still writing for film and television.

Partial filmography

Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.

Title	Year	Credited as			Notes	Ref(s)
		Screenwriter	Screen story author	Other
The Cat o' Nine Tails	1971	Yes
A Bay of Blood			Yes
Emergency Squad	1974	Yes	Yes
Manhunt in the City	1975	Yes	Yes
Mark of the Cop		Yes	Yes
Mark Shoots First		Yes	Yes
Rome Armed to the Teeth	1976	Yes
Cross Shot		Yes
Free Hand for a Tough Cop		Yes	Yes			|
Mark Strikes Again		Yes
The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist	1977	Yes
Destruction Force		Yes
Stunt Squad		Yes	Yes
A Man Called Magnum		Yes	Yes
Sette note in nero		Yes	Yes
Shock		Yes
Zombi 2	1979	Yes			Uncredited
City of the Living Dead	1980	Yes	Yes
The Beyond	1981	Yes	Yes
The House by the Cemetery		Yes
The New York Ripper	1982	Yes
Manhattan Baby		Yes	Yes
The Scorpion with Two Tails			Yes
Amityville II: The Possession		Yes			Uncredited
1990: The Bronx Warriors		Yes	Yes
Ironmaster	1983	Yes
A Blade in the Dark		Yes	Yes
The Atlantis Interceptors		Yes	Yes
Warriors of the Year 2072	1984	Yes	Yes
Demons	1985	Yes	Yes
Cut and Run		Yes	Yes
Demons 2	1986	Yes	Yes
Body Count	1986	Yes
Specters	1987	Yes			Sacchetti claims he did not work on this script.
Delta Force Commando	1987	Yes	Yes
The Church	1989		Yes		Uncredited.
The Teddy Bear	1994	Yes
L'importante è non farsi notare	—		Yes
Scusi lei è normale?	—	Yes	Yes
Cannibal Apocalypse	—	Yes
La cameriera seduce i villeggianti	—	Yes
The Last Hunter	—	Yes
Pierino il fichissimo	—	Yes	Yes
Blue Island	—	Yes	Yes
Pierino la peste alla riscossa	—	Yes	Yes
Thunder Warrior	—	Yes	Yes
Exterminators of the Year 3000	—	Yes	Yes
Monster Shark	—	Yes
Impatto mortale	—	Yes	Yes
Man Hunt	—		Yes
Midnight Killer	—	Yes	Yes
Evil Senses	—	Yes
Superfantagenio	—		Yes
Thunder Warrior II	—	Yes	Yes
Colpo di Stato	—	Yes	Yes
Karate Warrior	—	Yes	Yes
I predatori della pietra magica	—	Yes	Yes
Ratman	—	Yes	Yes
Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro 2	—	Yes	Yes
Afganistan - The Last War Bus	—	Yes	Yes
Bye Bye Vietnam	—	Yes	Yes
I ragazzi del 42° plotone	—	Yes	Yes
Money	—	Yes	Yes
Angel with a Gun	—	Yes	Yes
Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro 3	—	Yes	Yes
Italia '90 - Notti magiche	—	Yes	Yes
Alibi perfetto	—	Yes	Yes
Alex l'ariete	—	Yes	Yes
Bastardi	—	Yes
Blood of the Losers	—	Yes	Yes
Tulpa	—		Yes
Roma nuda... come tutto ebbe inizio	—	Yes	Yes
La madre	—	Yes	Yes

Footnotes

Sources

• Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.
• Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476629605.
• Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476672434.
• Hutchings, Peter (2017). Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema (2 ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1538102442.
• Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476662916.
• Paul, Louis (2015). Italian Horror Film Directors. McFarland.
• Shipka, Danny (2011). Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786486090.

External links

• Dardano Sacchetti at IMDb