Rino Di Silvestro

'Rino Di Silvestro' (qv) was an Italian writer/director who specialized in extremely raw, graphic and, in the opinion of many critics, offensive low-budget exploitation fare. He was born in 1932 and hailed from a family of Sicilian landowners. He established his own avant-garde theatre company and produced the risqué comedy play "Op Bop Pop Nip" in the 1960s. In addition, Di Silvestro was a ghostwriter who penned over 200 screenplays. He made his directorial debut with the supremely scuzzy chicks-in-chains outing _Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)_ (qv). He followed that with the sleazy _Love Angels (1974)_ (qv) and the nasty Nazisploitation item _Deported Women of the SS Special Section (1976)_ (qv). Di Silvestro achieved his greatest enduring cult cinema notoriety, however, with the outrageously trashy and leering soft-core horror schlocker _Werewolf Woman (1976)_ (qv).His last two pictures were the typically tawdry _Angel in the Dark (1984)_ (qv) and the crass sexploitation peplum _Die Orgien der Cleopatra (1985)_ (qv).He died of cancer on October 3, 2009.::woodyanders (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)