As Director, As Writer
La avispita Ruinasa
1983
1.0
José Luis Merino
Directing
Born
June 10, 1927
Place of Birth
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Deceased
July 2, 2019
Biography
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. Merino never considered himself a horror film director, he chose rather to favor his many action/adventure films. He died on July 2, 2019, at age 92.
The Filmography
As Director, As Writer
The Hanging Woman
1973
5.4
As Director
Zorro, Rider of Vengeance
1971
6.0
As Director, As Writer
When Heroes Die
1970
3.5
As Director
Zorro's Latest Adventure
1970
5.5
As Director, As Writer
Hell Commandos
1969
5.0
As Director, As Writer
The Battle of the Last Panzer
1969
5.0
As Director
Requiem for a Gringo
1968
5.2
As Director, As Writer
Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North
1967
5.5