Giannetto De Rossi

Giannetto De Rossi 8 August 1942 11 April 2021 was Italian makeup and special effects artist for motion pictures His career included work for several highprofile directors including Bernardo Bertolucci Sergio Leone Federico Fellini Franco Zeffirelli and David Lynch as well as collaborations with cult horror filmmakers Lucio Fulci and Alexandre Aja He was known particularly for his highlydetailed and realistic prosthetic appliances most visible in his horror output He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Effects for the Oscarwinning The Last Emperor 1987 One of his first special FX roles was as makeup artist for Joe DAmato whose film Emanuelle in America required detailed special FX for the notorious snuff film sequences The gruesome effects produced by De Rossi which included a womans breasts being hacked off and multiple floggings were so convincing that many thought them real snuff film scenes and one actress complained that she had been traumatised by the effects Early in his career De Rossi worked with a number of wellknown Italian directors including Sergio Leone and Federico Fellini A particularly notable collaboration was with Lucio Fulci on his horror film Zombi 2 De Rossi also worked with Fulci in two other films The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery Dino De Laurentiis hired De Rossi to create the onset practical effects for two films in Mexico which he was producing Dune and Conan the Destroyer De Rossi created a number of memorable effects in the two films including the fetusshaped Spice Guild Navigator seen floating in a tank in Dune and the Dagoth monster suit worn by André the Giant in Conan the Destroyer In the late 1980s he created the special makeup effects on Rambo III For the scene in which Rambo heals himself by igniting gunpowder inside of a torso bullet wound De Rossi rigged a device which caused flame to burst from both Sylvester Stallones stomach and back at once Stallone was so impressed by De Rossis work that he hired him again for the makeup effects for Daylight which was shot in Rome and put Stallones son Sage Stallone in contact with Lucio Fulci De Rossi created the title monster in the film Killer Crocodile and directed the films sequel Killer Crocodile 2 He is also notable as the designer of the mask used in the film The Man in the Iron Mask De Rossi continued creating FX for both Italian and American cinema until his death on 11 April 2021 coincidentally the same day as fellow Lucio Fulci collaborator Enzo Sciotti Source Article Giannetto De Rossi from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30