Luigi Cozzi

The Profile

Italian film director associated with low‑budget science fiction and cult films. Best known internationally for Star Crash (1979); has used the English pseudonym Lewis Coates and was connected with Dario Argento and the Profondo Rosso store.

Worked in Italian genre cinema; friend and partner of Dario Argento in running the Profondo Rosso store (mentioned in reviews). Star Crash (1979) credited in some prints with 'Music by John Barry' (mentioned in the provided review).

Luigi Cozzi's Star Crash is presented as an eccentric, campy Italian B‑movie: technically crude but inventively odd and fondly remembered. The review highlights low‑budget effects, pastiche of popular sci‑fi and a cult following. Overall appraisal is mixed (rating 3/5) with affectionate irony.