Claudio Lattanzi is known for Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1988), Crucified (2019) and La vita è già finita? (2007).
After working as Michele Soavi's assistant on a couple of occasions, he directed his own horror films, Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1987) and Crucified (2019).
Claudio Lattanzi began his film career in the 1980s as an assistant director in Deliria, House 3 - Ghosthouse, Interzone and The church
Under the pseudonym Claude Milliken, in 1988 he directed.
Killing Birds (also known by the title Zombi 5), a horror film produced by Joe D'Amato's Filmirage (Buio Omega, Rosso sangue), who also collaborated on the direction by directing some scenes.
In 1989, on the other hand, Claudio Lattanzi is involved in the distribution of the The House 4 - Witchcraft (directed by Fabrizio Laurenti), the second apocryphal sequel in the series Evil Dead by Sam Raimi
After a long hiatus away from filmmaking, Claudio Lattanzi returned to the director's booth in 2018 to direct Aquarius Visionarius - The Cinema of Michele Soavi, a documentary that recounts, through interviews with Dario Argento, Pietro Valsecchi, Michele Placido and Sergio Stivaletti, the career of Michele Soavi (The Church).
The film was presented at the Sitges Film Festival along with the horror film Everybloody's End which he is directing in 2019.
Finally in 2023 he signs the direction of Dream time, a docufilm on Italian horror films of the 1980s-1990s, shedding light on the characters who left an indelible mark on that period (Lamberto Bava, Michele Soavi, Claudio Simonetti, Fabio Frizzi, Sergio Stivaletti, Antonio Tentori).
Spaghetti westerns, giallo, mondo... are the legacy of a golden age in Italian genre filmmaking, which began in the sixties and came to an end in the eighties, but not without leaving behind a few final masterpieces. This film explores, a few decades later, what became of those filmmakers and their films. A number of the most famous survivors of Italian horror movies will help to shed light on what happened.
The story is set in an indefinite time. In a dungeon, five people fight for their survival: three women, Blonde, Black and Red; a theologian and a young doctor. Out of this hiding place reigns the APOCALISSE. Evil was generated by a zero patient and a group of ex-soldiers, called "Exterminators", crucifies any person you meet to find the origin of the evil. Are the five really safe in this place or is there something they don't know?