According to rumors that have been circulating via social media in the last hour, among other things confirmed by TetoVideo, Aldo Lado (1934 - 2023), an Italian film director, screenwriter, writer and editor best known in the field of cinema for writing and directing the cult The last train of the night, considered one of the crudest and most violent films ever made in Italy.
The Master reportedly passed away yesterday, Nov. 25, from as yet undisclosed causes.
After a series of stints as assistant director, Aldo Lado made his directorial debut in 1971 with the horror thriller The short night of the glass dolls, followed, the following year, by the thriller Who saw her die? (1972).
In 1973, he abandoned the thriller to direct the dramatic Buried alive while, in 1975, he wrote and signed the direction of The last train of the night, rape&revenge that has become a cult worldwide and recently distributed by the Italian label TetoVideo for the first time in its most complete edition, with new audio and video restoration, language and subtitles in Italian and English.
He later directed the sci-fi action The humanoid and, in the 1980s Aldo Lado turned to TV films (Sons of the Inspector, The City of Miriam), before returning to the thriller in the 1990s with Perfect alibi and Black Friday.
In 2015 he began his writing career by participating with several short stories ("The Giant and the Little Girl," "Cold Case on Lake Maggiore") in several anthologies.
In 2017, the The movies you will never see, a collection of stories he wrote for the cinema between the 1960s and 1990s that never made it to the screen. Following its great success, Lado founded the Edizioni Angera Films brand with which he published other titles (A Chicken to Pluck, Hotel of Things, The Hound, The Rider...).
