expensive to film. Squitieri refused to change his script and he had also been arguing with Kinski. As Caminito felt they could not lose Kinski, he terminated the contract with Squitieri and paid him the agreed sum before the director had the chance to shoot anything. This led to the hiring of Mario Caiano, who had worked with Kinski in the past on films such as The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe. In mid-1986, Caiano completed casting on the film and Caminito re-wrote the script to make it match the films new reduced budget. Cozzi later stated that several characters and scenes were scrapped in this new re-write. Filming Filming began on August 25. Kinski refused to shave his head and wear fake fangs for the role. After arguing with Caiano on the first day of filming, Caiano stated later that Kinski would not listen to him when he called cut and found him the next day locked in his trailer with Caminito. Caiano learned that Caminito had promised Kinski that he would direct the film. According to Caminito, Caiano ran into Kinski's trailer and told him "Now you're directing the movie!". Caminito felt determined to finish the film and took on directing the film himself, with Cozzi who helped him to direct scenes as a second unit director. According to Cozzi, Kinski would ignore the staging they did in rehearsals which led to the director of photography Antonio Nardi having to reset his lighting set-up from scratch as Kinski would not follow cues and would refuse to shoot re-takes. Kinski had Caminito fire Amanda Sandrelli. When Voyagis' girlfriend, Anne Knecht, visited the set, Kinski demanded Caminito hire her as the female lead. This led to the script being changed so that Maria was now Helietta's adopted daughter. Kinski demanded to and did direct some scenes himself, which included scenes following him as Nosferatu in Venice at dawn. Cozzi stated later that Kinski ended with about 10 hours of footage which consisted of Kinski walking around. The boom man on set, Luciano Muratori, stated that during a scene where Nosferatu was to turn Barbara De Rossi's character Helietta into a vampire which was supposed to be Kinski pretending to lean over and bite her neck led to Kinski inserting his fingers into the woman's vagina, which had her run from the set in tears. Cozzi stated that Kinski went as