
Production
Ovidio G. Assonitis
Born 1943-01-18 · Alexandria, Egypt
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ovidio Assonitis (born on January 18, 1943 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an independent film producer and businessman with over 35 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ovidio Assonitis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
NRFeature length documentary including interviews with Sergio Martino, Alberto de Martino, Ovidio G. Assonitis and more.
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
2020
Mini documentary on the making of Beyond the Door.
Beyond the Door: 35 Years Later
2009
An interview with Ovidio G. Assonitis recalling the production of the 1977 film Tentacles!
An Italian Irwin Allen - An Interview with Ovidio G. Assonitis
2023
Producer and director Assonitis describes the difficulties in making his Beyond the Door.
The Devil and I: Interview with Ovidio G. Assonitis
2020
Behind the camera
4.3A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Piranha II: The Spawning
1982
5.3An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.
The Visitor
1979
5.3The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas.
American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
1990
4.5At an institute in Manila, researchers and eco-tourists trade stories about the Mara tribe, who live on a remote island and have an annual festival of rebirth in which some of the tribe forget who they are and begin again. Laure is the daughter of the institute's director; she's a free spirit who has captured the fancy of Nicola, a European photographer. After a courtship in which the voyeuristic Nick indulges Laure's exhibitionism and sexual freedom, they set off for Mara land with Gualtier, an anthropologist, and his philosophical lover, Myrte. As they approach the Mara on the night of rebirth, who of the group will actually join the tribe to begin life anew?
Laure
1976
4.5At an institute in Manila, researchers and eco-tourists trade stories about the Mara tribe, who live on a remote island and have an annual festival of rebirth in which some of the tribe forget who they are and begin again. Laure is the daughter of the institute's director; she's a free spirit who has captured the fancy of Nicola, a European photographer. After a courtship in which the voyeuristic Nick indulges Laure's exhibitionism and sexual freedom, they set off for Mara land with Gualtier, an anthropologist, and his philosophical lover, Myrte. As they approach the Mara on the night of rebirth, who of the group will actually join the tribe to begin life anew?
Laure
1976
5.2Jessica Barrett, wife and mother of two young children, begins to show signs of demonic possession while pregnant with her third child. As she seeks help from her husband and doctor, a mysterious man approaches her and seems to have some answers.
Beyond the Door
1974
5.2Jessica Barrett, wife and mother of two young children, begins to show signs of demonic possession while pregnant with her third child. As she seeks help from her husband and doctor, a mysterious man approaches her and seems to have some answers.
Beyond the Door
1974
5.2Jessica Barrett, wife and mother of two young children, begins to show signs of demonic possession while pregnant with her third child. As she seeks help from her husband and doctor, a mysterious man approaches her and seems to have some answers.
Beyond the Door
1974
5.2Pilgrim Corporation has leased Choke Canyon to research physicist David Lowell for 99 years. Lowell has built an impressive research laboratory there. When Pilgrim suddenly needs Choke Canyon for toxic waste storage, they resort to violence to force out the renitent Lowell. However, Pilgrim Corportation vastly underestimates Lowell, who is a tenacious, principled, and ingenious man.
Choke Canyon
1986
5.2Pilgrim Corporation has leased Choke Canyon to research physicist David Lowell for 99 years. Lowell has built an impressive research laboratory there. When Pilgrim suddenly needs Choke Canyon for toxic waste storage, they resort to violence to force out the renitent Lowell. However, Pilgrim Corportation vastly underestimates Lowell, who is a tenacious, principled, and ingenious man.
Choke Canyon
1986
4.8When a scientists daughter is kidnapped, American Ninja, attempts to find her, but this time he teams up with a youngster he has trained in the ways of the ninja.
American Ninja 5
1993
5.0Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes’ family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the family and other members of the community.
The Curse
1987
4.6Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a tunnel beneath the bay might have poisoned the environment and caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions...
Tentacles
1977
5.5Detective Joe Garvey is called in to a mysterious case: a ballerina has been slayed on stage during a performance, it seems she didn't even fight. At her house Garvey finds her 14 years old precocious sister Tinsel. She's not very cooperative, so he arranges to have her sent to the orphanage -- until she's attacked too. He takes her under his wings, and soon both get the attention of a secret organization.
No Place to Hide
1992
6.0No synopsis available yet.
ABCinema
1975
3.8Having had a one night stand with an obsessive inmate, the college professor teaching his prison literature class soon lives the nightmare of her decision.
Out of Control
1992
3.8Having had a one night stand with an obsessive inmate, the college professor teaching his prison literature class soon lives the nightmare of her decision.
Out of Control
1992
5.6A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.
Madhouse
1981
5.6A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.
Madhouse
1981
5.6A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.
Madhouse
1981
6.0Sabrina goes to Rome, with Salem stowaway-ed in her backpack, to free her 16th-century aunt Sophia who was banished for divulging her powers to a non-witch.
Sabrina Goes to Rome
1998
5.6A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
Man from Deep River
1972
7.0Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976
5.3A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin McKay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.
Midnight Ride
1990