Michele Soavi Wyman. He directed his first feature film with 1987's "Stage Fright" for producer Joe D'Amato. He worked as assistant director to Terry Gilliam on "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1988, and followed this with his second feature film as director, 1989's "La Chiesa" ("The Church"). His third feature, "The Sect" (a.k.a. "The Devil's Daughter"), followed in 1990. Soavi has been credited as almost single-handedly continuing the traditions of Italian horror in the 1990s, directing the acclaimed zombie love story "Dellamorte Dellamore" (a.k.a. "Cemetery Man"). The film was based on Tiziano Sclavi's novel of the same name, and the author
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Design, Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup. In an unnamed war-torn European city in the "Age of Reason", amid explosions and gunfire from a large Ottoman army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausen's life and adventures is taking place. In a theatre box, the mayor, "The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson", reinforces the city's commitment to reason by ordering the execution of a soldier who had just accomplished a near-superhuman feat of bravery, claiming that his bravery is demoralizing to other soldiers and citizens. Not far into the play, an elderly man claiming to be