乔·达马托出生于1936年的罗马，在1999年因心脏病突发病逝，享年62岁。这位才华横溢的导演曾经用过很多的化名，他的别名乔·达马托（Joe d'Amato）的灵感则来自与他合作的电影摄影师，在片场用了他的真名，后续就沿用了下来。达马托不仅仅执导意大利电影，他还执导过两部中国片，超级罕见，一部是中国爱经；还有一部是红房子的故事，以香港演员及场地为背景，讲述到青楼躲雨的老人，由四段小故事构成，中西结合，厉害吧！

Joe D'Amato, (birth name: Aristide Massaccesi) (December 15, 1936 in Rome - January 23, 1999 in Rome) was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well. While D'Amato contributed to many different genres (such as the spaghetti western, the war movie, the swashbuckler, the peplum, and the fantasy film), the majority of his films are exploitation-themed pornography, both soft- and hardcore. He is perhaps most well known for his horror film efforts, many of which went on to become cult movies (such as Anthropophagous and Beyond the Darkness), and for his hastily-produced remakes of popular American films (such as the Ator series, based upon the Conan the Barbarian films), some of which were featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000. The poor production value of many of his films, combined with his expressed lack of concern for the production quality of his films as long as they proved profitable, have led him to be labeled as "The Evil Ed Wood," despite D'Amato's apparently amiable nature.

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