Francesca Ciardi

She was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust.

Played by Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, and Luca Barbareschi, the crew had gone missing while filming a documentary on local cannibal tribes.

So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released its director Ruggero Deodato was arrested for murder.

The film was shot in the Amazon Rainforest for a budget of about $100,000, and starred Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, and Carl Gabriel Yorke.

In 2014 after over twenty years out of the film business, Ciardi returned to film in Spencer Hawken's zero budget movie Death Walks.

The film stars Jessie Williams, Lucinda Rhodes-Flaherty, and Francesca Ciardi, and centres on a group of people trying to survive inside a shopping center that is under attack by the dead.

The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumours that the film was a snuff movie.

In 2013 he began working on Death Walks, a zero-budget horror movie that starred Francesca Ciardi, Lucinda Rhodes and Jessie Williams.