I do think there are some major additions that should be made.
1. Fabio Frizzi's main theme from The Beyond. It really feels like they told him "We're trying to make the scariest movie of all time," and he was like I GOT YOU.
2. As much as I love Goblin's work on Suspiria, how could we forget their (or Claudio Simonetti's?) totally danceable theme from Tenebrae? No one hears that without dancing, and Justice knew this well which is why they sampled it a couple decades ago.
3. Speaking of Simonetti, he delivers that funky, rocking orchestral opening to Demons, a theme that hits so hard that it just BRINGS IT from the first moment on.
I’m afraid that, while I do know of each of those films you mentioned, I haven’t gotten around to seeing them for myself yet, so their soundtracks aren’t familiar to me. At least, not knowingly. There’s a bell ringing in the back of my mind to tell me that I might know “The Beyond” soundtrack when I hear it, because I think I’ve previously noted it as an album to eventually listen to, due to what I’ve heard of it elsewhere.
But yeah, there’s a lot more Italian horror cinema in my watchlist for me to acquaint myself with…
All three movies there are top tier efforts. And I'm pretty sure the last two begin IMMEDIATELY with those themes, because they know to put the good stuff up first.
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I do think there are some major additions that should be made.
1. Fabio Frizzi's main theme from The Beyond. It really feels like they told him "We're trying to make the scariest movie of all time," and he was like I GOT YOU.
2. As much as I love Goblin's work on Suspiria, how could we forget their (or Claudio Simonetti's?) totally danceable theme from Tenebrae? No one hears that without dancing, and Justice knew this well which is why they sampled it a couple decades ago.
3. Speaking of Simonetti, he delivers that funky, rocking orchestral opening to Demons, a theme that hits so hard that it just BRINGS IT from the first moment on.
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I’m afraid that, while I do know of each of those films you mentioned, I haven’t gotten around to seeing them for myself yet, so their soundtracks aren’t familiar to me. At least, not knowingly. There’s a bell ringing in the back of my mind to tell me that I might know “The Beyond” soundtrack when I hear it, because I think I’ve previously noted it as an album to eventually listen to, due to what I’ve heard of it elsewhere.
But yeah, there’s a lot more Italian horror cinema in my watchlist for me to acquaint myself with…
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All three movies there are top tier efforts. And I'm pretty sure the last two begin IMMEDIATELY with those themes, because they know to put the good stuff up first.
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