Enzo Sciotti

Enzo Sciotti (24 September 1944 – 11 April 2021) was an Italian artist and illustrator. Sciotti was known for his illustrations of more than 3000 movie posters, typically for horror films, including The Beyond, Demons, The Blood of Heroes and several other Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, and Lamberto Bava films. He also painted covers for comics and home video releases.

Early life Enzo Sciotti was born in Rome, Italy, on 24 September 1944. His father, Emanuele Sciotti, was a church decorator, At the age of 16, thanks to his drawing talent and his passion for film, Sciotti found a job as an artist at a graphics studio in Cinecittà, producing movie posters. Another employee at the studio was Ezio Tarantelli, with whom, after 15 years at the studio, Sciotti opened his own studio – E2 – in Rome.

Career In the 1980s, Sciotti became one of the best-known cinema poster artists in Europe. He was best-known for his work on the posters of Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness, Fulci's The Beyond, Lynch's Blue Velvet and Argento's Phenomena. A copy of his Blue Velvet poster is kept in the National Gallery of Australia. For The Beyond, Sciotti was featured in the making-of features. When digital graphic art replaced traditional illustration, and DVDs and corporate companies took over, Sciotti moved away from graphics and began painting, typically portraits. and worked with his agency until his death in April 2021; he created the home video-release covers of the Midnight Classics collection of cult classic horror films. The Guardian described him as one of the three "undisputed masters" of VHS cover art, who was "as adept at producing oil landscapes as monsters and mercenaries".

Personal life His personal Instagram, which he used as a gallery, announced his death on 11 April 2021. He died on the same day as Giannetto De Rossi, an Italian make-up artist who worked on several of the same Fulci films as Sciotti.