Prolific ‘Troll 2’ & ‘Zombi 3’ Writer Rossella Drudi Has Passed Away

Severin Films, who have released a long lineup of her films, brings us the sad news this week that prolific Italian genre screenwriter Rossella Drudi has passed away at the age of 61.

Horror fans may best know Rossella Drudi as the co-writer of Troll 2, which was one of Drudi’s many collaborations with her husband, Claudio Fragasso. Both Drudi and Fragasso were heavily featured in the documentary Best Worst Movie, which dove deep into the making of Troll 2 as well as explored the film’s legacy as one of the, well, best worst movies ever made.

But Rossella Drudi worked on countless other Italian genre movies throughout her decades-spanning career, writing and co-writing horror films including Hell of the Living Dead, Women’s Prison Massacre, Rats: Night of Terror, Monster Dog, Zombi 3, Robowar, After Death, Beyond Darkness, and The Crawlers, and that list quite frankly goes on and on.

Severin Films writes on the company’s official Facebook page, “Being a woman creative behind the camera in the Italian genre filmmaking world of the 70s / 80s was not very common and often [Rossella Drudi] would go uncredited at the behest of producers but must be among the most prolific female screenwriters in that arena.”

“The creative and personal relationship between Rossella and Claudio [Fragasso] is one of the great love stories in Italian cinema, no joke, spanning close to half a century,” Severin’s tribute continues. “Sure they’re best known now for Troll 2 and their somewhat unflattering representation in Best Worst Movie. They were so humble when I asked them their thoughts on that doc that their principal comment on the matter was that they were happy to see the principals from that movie get some long overdue appreciation for a lot of hard work for small pay.”

“We send all our love to Claudio at this time,” Severin’s official statement later continues. “And thank Rossella for all her wonderful work, the appreciation for which continues to grow among the fans and aficionados of the wildest in exploitation cinema.”

Rossella Drudi is survived by her longtime husband, Claudio Fragasso.

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