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
Baron Munchausen marked popular success. Over the next few years, the publishing house issued further editions in quick succession, adding still more non-Raspe material along the way; even the full-length "Sequel to the Adventures of Baron Munchausen", again not by Raspe and originally published in 1792 by a rival printer, was quickly subsumed into the body of stories. In the process of revision, Raspe's prose style was heavily modified; instead of his conversational language and sportsmanlike turns of phrase, Kearsley's writers opted for a blander and more formal tone imitating Augustan prose. Most ensuing English-language editions, including even the major editions produced