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,^[1] in Italy. His first screen credit was for Dario Argento's film The Cat o' Nine Tails.^[1] He predominantly worked with Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava.^[1]

He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s.^[1] Sacchetti stated that for his screenplays, he would only learn who the director would be a week before the film went into production.^[2]

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.^[2] 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.^[2]

He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s.^[1] As of 2017, Sacchetti was still writing for film and television.^[1]

Partial filmography

Title	Year	Credited as			Notes	Ref(s)
		Screenwriter	Screen story author	Other
The Cat o' Nine Tails	1971	Yes				[3]
A Bay of Blood			Yes			[4][5]
Emergency Squad	1974	Yes	Yes			[6]
Manhunt in the City	1975	Yes	Yes			[7]
Mark of the Cop		Yes	Yes			[7]
Mark Shoots First		Yes	Yes			[8]
Rome Armed to the Teeth	1976	Yes				[9]
Cross Shot		Yes				[10]
Free Hand for a Tough Cop		Yes	Yes			[11]|[12]
Mark Strikes Again		Yes				[13]
The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist	1977	Yes				[14]
Destruction Force		Yes				[15]
Stunt Squad		Yes	Yes			[16]
A Man Called Magnum		Yes	Yes			[17]
Sette note in nero		Yes	Yes			[18]
Shock	Yes				[19]
Zombi 2	1979	Yes			Uncredited	[20][21]
City of the Living Dead	1980	Yes	Yes			[22][23]
The Beyond	1981	Yes	Yes			[24][25]
The House by the Cemetery		Yes				[26][27]
The New York Ripper	1982	Yes				[28][29]
Manhattan Baby		Yes	Yes			[30][31]
The Scorpion with Two Tails			Yes			[32][33]
Amityville II: The Possession		Yes			Uncredited	[34]
1990: The Bronx Warriors		Yes	Yes			[35][36]
Ironmaster	1983	Yes				[37]
A Blade in the Dark		Yes	Yes			[38][39]
The Atlantis Interceptors		Yes	Yes			[40][41]
Warriors of the Year 2072	1984	Yes	Yes			[42][43]
Demons	1985	Yes	Yes			[44][45]
Cut and Run		Yes	Yes			[46][47]
Demons 2	1986	Yes	Yes			[48][49]
Body Count	1986	Yes				[50][51][52]
Specters	1987	Yes			Sacchetti claims he did not work on this script.	[53]
Delta Force Commando	1987	Yes	Yes			[54][55][56]
The Church	1989		Yes		Uncredited.	[57][58]
The Teddy Bear	1994	Yes				[59][60]
L'importante è non farsi notare	—		Yes			[61]
Scusi lei è normale?	—	Yes	Yes			[62]
Cannibal Apocalypse	—	Yes				[63]
La cameriera seduce i villeggianti	—	Yes				[64]
The Last Hunter	—	Yes				[65]
Pierino il fichissimo	—	Yes	Yes			[66]
Blue Island	—	Yes	Yes			[67]
Pierino la peste alla riscossa	—	Yes	Yes			[68]
Thunder Warrior	—	Yes	Yes			[69]
Exterminators of the Year 3000	—	Yes	Yes			[70]
Monster Shark	—	Yes				[71]
Impatto mortale	—	Yes	Yes			[72]
Man Hunt	—		Yes			[73]
Midnight Killer	—	Yes	Yes			[74]
Evil Senses	—	Yes				[75]
Superfantagenio	—		Yes			[76]
Thunder Warrior II	—	Yes	Yes			[77]
Colpo di Stato	—	Yes	Yes			[78]
Karate Warrior	—	Yes	Yes			[79]
I predatori della pietra magica	—	Yes	Yes			[80]
Ratman	—	Yes	Yes			[81]
Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro 2	—	Yes	Yes			[82]
Afganistan - The Last War Bus	—	Yes	Yes			[83]
Bye Bye Vietnam	—	Yes	Yes			[84]
I ragazzi del 42° plotone	—	Yes	Yes			[85]
Money	—	Yes	Yes			[86]
Angel with a Gun	—	Yes	Yes			[87]
Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro 3	—	Yes	Yes			[88]
Italia '90 - Notti magiche	—	Yes	Yes			[89]
Alibi perfetto	—	Yes	Yes			[90]
Alex l'ariete	—	Yes	Yes			[91]
Bastardi	—	Yes				[92]
Blood of the Losers	—	Yes	Yes			[93]
Tulpa	—		Yes			[94]
Roma nuda... come tutto ebbe inizio	—	Yes	Yes			[95]
La madre	—	Yes	Yes			[96]