sentences:  The producer of "Stage Fright", Aristide Massaccesi then offered Lattanzi a chance to direct "Killing Birds" when Soavi turned down to offer to take up Argento's offer to make "The Church".According to Lattanzi, during the Christmas Holidays of 1986, he had written a story called "Il cancello obsoleto" about a record producer who invites a rock band to a deserted house to record a tune, without knowing that Nazi soldier corpses are buried there.Lattanzi stated that Massaccesi asked him to reshape the story by replacing the rock band and the Nazis with birds.