JOSÉ LUIS MADRID

DIRECTING

José Luis Madrid is rather a man of cinema than a filmmaker, because apart from director, producer and screenwriter, he also was a member of the boards of producing American Films, SL, Andorra Films, SA, Cinefilms, SL, Theatrical Production Ufesa, SA, Servifilms, SL, Kfilms, SA, José Luis Madrid, PC, Film Cooperative Collects and Tilman Films, in positions ranging from owner to chairperson, and also owner of the Madrid theaters Picasso and Lumière, as well as the studios of Apolo Films in Villalba (Madrid),film producer formerly owned by his uncle, the also director Antonio del Amo, under whose orders began to take his first steps in the profession.

Law school graduate and enrolled in the QFII, which would not get to finish his studies, his official filmography of more than twenty films thrives mostly genre films,from thrillers to euroespías, españoladas, lurid dramas or the typical post-Franco movies or horror movies, style where most of their raids would be perpetrated by the emblem of this movement in Spain, the actor, screenwriter and director Jacinto Molina - Paul Naschy, the result of whose collaboration are 'Jack the Ripper of London / Sette Cadaveri per Scotland Yard' (1971) and crimes of 'Petiot' (1972).