Gabriele Albanesi

Gabriele was born in Rome and started making movies with Video8 Camera when he was sixteen. He was a trainee as an assistant director of filmmakers Antonio Manetti and Marco Manetti and worked on many music videos of famous Italian artists (Alex Britti, Gigi D'Alessio, Max Pezzali). At the same time he was a film critic and he graduated with a degree thesis on the evolution of Italian horror cinema. During these years he directed the short movies Braccati (2001) produced by Stars Film, L'armadio (2002) produced by the well-know Italian cinematographer Luca Bigazzi, and Mummie (2003) produced by Nauta Film. Then Gabriele directed his first feature film The Last House in the Woods (2006) which was shot in only 17 days with a budget of under 50k euros. The film was a super-splatter gore fest produced by NeroFilm in association with Manetti bros and with the Italian wizard of gore Sergio Stivaletti who provided all the special effects and special make-up. The Last House in the Woods (2006) was released by Minerva Pictures and was acclaimed in international film festivals as Montreal World Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, London Sci-Fi Film Festival, won a prize at Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival for best lead actor (to Gennaro Diana) and a jury prize at Fantaspoa for "best bloodbath". With the 'Italian Chainsaw' title the movie became the Top Ten seller in Japan and was also released in Thailandia, Malesia, Indonesia, Singapore, Russia and Spain. Then The Last House in the Woods (2006) was hand-picked by director Sam Raimi through Lionsgate and Ghost House Underground and nationwide released on DVD in the North America as 'The Last House in the Woods'. The movie was hailed as one of the best DVDs of 2008 by Bloody Disgusting. Gabriele wrote & directed his second feature film Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (2010) which was produced by Minerva Pictures with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte. The movie was broadcast on the Italian SKY network and released in the USA by RaroVideo.