![[R.I.P.] ‘Zombie’ and ‘High Tension’ Makeup Effects Artist Giannetto De Rossi Has Passed Away [R.I.P.] ‘Zombie’ and ‘High Tension’ Makeup Effects Artist Giannetto De Rossi Has Passed Away](https://i1.wp.com/bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/zombie-2.jpg?resize=960,500&ssl=1)
A real legend on this planet of make-up results, we’ve discovered the unhappy information this week that Italian artist Giannetto De Rossi has handed away. The make-up grasp was 79 years previous.
Born August 8, 1942, Giannetto De Rossi started his profession as a particular make-up results artist with the 1963 film The Hours of Love, subsequently engaged on Sixties movies together with The Little Nuns, Corpse for the Lady, The Possessed, Wake Up and Die, The Taming of the Shrew, Doctor Faustus, Day of Anger, and Sergio Leone’s traditional Once Upon a Time within the West.
But it was throughout the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties that De Rossi firmly established himself as an icon within the eyes of horror followers with contributions to Emmanuelle in America, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, and Lucio Fulci’s Zombie, the latter movie’s ugly brutality making De Rossi a legend within the horror house. De Rossi was accountable for the creation of the zombies and varied scenes of carnage all through the film, utilizing the whole lot from mortician’s wax, egg whites and even a real-life shark to carry to the display a few of the style’s most memorably brutal moments.
De Rossi subsequently reunited with Fulci for The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery.
Giannetto De Rossi spent the rest of the ’80s and ’90s engaged on huge productions together with Conan the Destroyer, Dune, King Kong Lives, Rambo III, Kull the Conqueror and The Man within the Iron Mask, and he returned to the horror style in 2003 with Alexandra Aja’s High Tension, bringing his model of graphic violence to a brand new era of followers.
Giannetto De Rossi additionally wrote and directed three movies all through his profession: 1989’s Cy Warrior, 1990’s creature characteristic horror film Killer Crocodile 2, and 1995’s Tummy.
A legend whose unimaginable work will dwell on eternally. Rest in Peace, Giannetto.