In Memoriam: Umberto Lenzi R.i.P.

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Italian film legend Umberto Lenzi has passed away aged 86, leaving a lifetime legacy of genre pictures.

Though Lenzi was perhaps best known for Cannibal Ferox, my own introduction to the director was via Ghosthouse (released in his native Italy as La Casa 3, an indirect sequel to The Evil Dead series).

In 2006, I was hired to rewrite a horror feature film script for a European producer who had been impressed by one of my speculative scripts. My heart skipped a beat when I received the consul...