Hello, my name is Justin the Clueh, and I'm here today with Will Sloan. And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're talking about a master of the art. It's Joe Demado. Who? Yeah. You're talking about Jess Franco, the guy who made, like, female vampire, stuff like that? No, you're talking about Lucille Fulci, the director of the beyond. Oh, wait, no, Jean-Grelin, the guy who made like Rape of the Vampire and all those other, like, women vampire films. No, no, no. We're talking about the guy who made hundreds and hundreds of film, most of them in the hardcore pornography field. And almost none of which are good.

Or are they?

That's what we're going to discuss today.

And we should point out that this is, out of all our episodes,

one that we're going to talk about very violent and sexual stuff.

Yeah, so trigger warning.

Yeah, just stop listening if that kind of stuff bothers you,

even though we kind of talk about that every week, I feel like.

So, Joe DiMato, he's a filmmaker that I would always associate with making garbage.

I think we're very interested in Joe DiMato.

I've been excited all week about this episode.

I watched eight Joe DeMato movies for this episode, So basically any spare second I had this week,

which is a really weird frame of mind to be in for a week. I'll tell you that. But why are we

interested in him since he's so bad and since nobody has reclaimed him? I don't know. I think

it may be a mixture of the kind of movies that he makes and his history. Joe Domato is a guy

that has 196 credits to his

name. His real name is Arristed Massacessi. I'm probably saying that incorrectly as per usual.

Aristeid Massacessi. And that his name Damado was actually taken from looking around the room

and seeing a calendar that had like Damado typography on it. One of his distributors noticed that American Italian filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, they were successful. So he said, hey, let's give this guy a name like that. So he became Joe DiMato. I mean, he really should have stuck with his other pseudonyms like Steve Benson or maybe Dick Spitfire.

Dick Spitfire, that's good. David Hills was another one.

But he's principally known as Joe Demado because that's what he put on the horror films that he made,

which made him popular in places like North America.

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