Alberto De Martino

The legend, according to Mockbusters.tv

Alberto De Martino looked at the sky and understood, before anyone else, that Aztec myth needed a cape: thus came L'uomo puma, the original that Hollywood has been quietly photocopying ever since, with obscene budgets and considerably less soul. A spiritual pupil of the great masters, he absorbed their every lesson and shot it in half the time, because efficiency is a form of authorship. The second take he dismissed as idle bourgeois luxury: truth happens once. His filmography remains the intangible heritage of the video store, preserved on tapes worn thin by devotion.

A portrait from the Mockbusters.tv satirical universe: humorous praise, not a factual biography.