# 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, in Italy. His first screen credit was for Dario Argento's film The Cat o' Nine Tails. He predominantly worked with Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava.
He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s. Sacchetti stated that for his screenplays, he would only learn who the director would be a week before the film went into production.
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. 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.
He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s. As of 2017, Sacchetti was still writing for film and television.

## Partial filmography

    Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.
| Title | Year | Credited as | Credited as | Credited as | Notes | Ref(s) |
| Title | Year | Screenwriter | Screen story author | Other | Notes | Ref(s) |
| The Cat o' Nine Tails | 1971 | Yes | | | | |
| A Bay of Blood | 1971 | | Yes | | | |
| Emergency Squad | 1974 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Manhunt in the City | 1975 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Mark of the Cop | 1975 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Mark Shoots First | 1975 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Rome Armed to the Teeth | 1976 | Yes | | | | |
| Cross Shot | 1976 | Yes | | | | |
| Free Hand for a Tough Cop | 1976 | Yes | Yes | | | | |
| Mark Strikes Again | 1976 | Yes | | | | |
| The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist | 1977 | Yes | | | | |
| Destruction Force | 1977 | Yes | | | | |
| Stunt Squad | 1977 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| A Man Called Magnum | 1977 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Sette note in nero | 1977 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Shock | 1977 | Yes | | | | |
| Zombi 2 | 1979 | Yes | | | Uncredited | |
| City of the Living Dead | 1980 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| The Beyond | 1981 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| The House by the Cemetery | 1981 | Yes | | | | |
| The New York Ripper | 1982 | Yes | | | | |
| Manhattan Baby | 1982 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| The Scorpion with Two Tails | 1982 | | Yes | | | |
| Amityville II: The Possession | 1982 | Yes | | | Uncredited | |
| 1990: The Bronx Warriors | 1982 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Ironmaster | 1983 | Yes | | | | |
| A Blade in the Dark | 1983 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| The Atlantis Interceptors | 1983 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Warriors of the Year 2072 | 1984 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Demons | 1985 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Cut and Run | 1985 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Demons 2 | 1986 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Body Count | 1986 | Yes | | | | |
| Specters | 1987 | Yes | | | Sacchetti claims he did not work on this script. | |
| Delta Force Commando | 1987 | Yes | Yes | | | |
| The Church | 1989 | | Yes | | Uncredited. | |
| The Teddy Bear | 1994 | Yes | | | | |
| L'importante è non farsi notare | — | | Yes | | | |
| Scusi lei è normale? | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Cannibal Apocalypse | — | Yes | | | | |
| La cameriera seduce i villeggianti | — | Yes | | | | |
| The Last Hunter | — | Yes | | | | |
| Pierino il fichissimo | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Blue Island | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Pierino la peste alla riscossa | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Thunder Warrior | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Exterminators of the Year 3000 | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Monster Shark | — | Yes | | | | |
| Impatto mortale | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Man Hunt | — | | Yes | | | |
| Midnight Killer | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Evil Senses | — | Yes | | | | |
| Superfantagenio | — | | Yes | | | |
| Thunder Warrior II | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Colpo di Stato | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Karate Warrior | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| I predatori della pietra magica | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Ratman | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro 2 | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Afganistan - The Last War Bus | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Bye Bye Vietnam | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| I ragazzi del 42° plotone | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Money | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Angel with a Gun | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro 3 | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Italia '90 - Notti magiche | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Alibi perfetto | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Alex l'ariete | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Bastardi | — | Yes | | | | |
| Blood of the Losers | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Tulpa | — | | Yes | | | |
| Roma nuda... come tutto ebbe inizio | — | Yes | Yes | | | |
| La madre | — | Yes | Yes | | | |

## Footnotes

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* 1 2 3 Shipka 2011, p. 26.
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