JOSÉ LUIS MERINO
DIRECTING
Jose Luis Merino (10 June 1927 – 2 July 2019) was a Spanish film writer and director who developed a cult following among horror film fans.
He was born in 1927 in Madrid, Spain, as José Luis Merino Boves, and went on to direct around 30 films during his long and varied career as director and writer (1958–1990), most of them action/adventure films, crime dramas , spaghetti westerns, war movies and costume dramas involving Robin Hood, pirates, Zorro etc.
He is known to horror film fans for the two horror movies he directed in the early 1970s: Orgy of the Dead ( aka The Hanging Woman ) and Scream of the Demon Lover (aka Ivanna ), which have both become cult classics over the years.
The Hanging Woman 1973
Requiem for a Gringo 1968
Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North 1967
USA, violación y venganza 1983
More Dollars for the MacGregors 1970
Slaughter on the Khyber Pass 1970
Scream of the Demon Lover 1970
Pirates of Blood Island 1972
The Battle of the Last Panzer 1969
When Heroes Die 1970
Hell Commandos 1969