Giannetto De Rossi
Costume & Make-Up
Born August 8, 1942 in Rome, Latium, Italy
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 high-profile 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 highly-detailed and realistic prosthetic appliances, most visible in his horror output. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Effects for the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor (1987). One of his first special FX roles was as make-up artist for Joe D'Amato, 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 woman's 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.
Filmography
Jorge Grau: Catalonia's Cult Film King
self
The Emmanuelle Effect
Self
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
Pompeii
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Self
Ring of the Nibelungs
Modigliani
High Tension
Uprising
Uprising
Amici ahrarara
Harrison's Flowers
Vatel
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
The Man in the Iron Mask
Kull the Conqueror
Daylight
DragonHeart
Catherine the Great
Tummy
The Inner Circle
Killer Crocodile 2
Dr. M
Killer Crocodile
Cy-Warrior
Rambo III
Dune
Conan the Destroyer
Raiders of Atlantis
State buoni se potete
La traviata
Piranha II: The Spawning
The House by the Cemetery
The Beyond
Cannibal Apocalypse
Zombie Flesh Eaters
The Humanoid
King of the Gypsies
Holocaust 2000
Emanuelle in America
Fellini's Casanova
Evil Thoughts
1900
Abicinema
Self
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Come Home and Meet My Wife
The Last Four Days
Ash Wednesday
The Valdez Horses
The Funny Face of the Godfather
The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
The Eroticist
The Valachi Papers
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Io non spezzo... rompo
Waterloo
When Women Had Tails
The Invincible Six
Once Upon a Time in the West
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Doctor Faustus
The Harem
The Taming of the Shrew
Wake Up and Die
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
The Possessed
Samson and Gideon
Corpse for the Lady
The Maniacs
The Thursday
The Little Nuns
Target: Girls
The Hours of Love