★Chris' Soundtrack Corner
Marta … Dopo di Che, Uccide il Maschio e lo Divora
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to the 1971 Spanish/Italian co-production ...Dopo Di Che, Uccide Il Maschio E Lo Divora. This title translates from Italian into English as the rather gruesome "After that, It Kills the Male and Devours It;" the movie was known in the US as simply Marta. The film is a dramatic thriller about a wealthy landowner haunted by the specter of his dead mother. When he has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to hi…
Le Ultime Ore Di Una Vergine
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents Daniele Patucchi's masterful score to Le Ultime Ore Di Una Vergine. In the 1970s, the genre of Italian melodramas found new and innovative ways to discuss heavy topics against the backdrop of romantic stories. Until abortion was made legal in 1978, Italian filmmakers shot dramas centering around the issue with varying degrees of good taste. Le Ultime Ore Di Una Vergine (THE LAST HOURS OF A VIRGIN; also known as UN DOPPIO A METÀ and DOUBLE BY HALF in the …
El Ultimo Viaje
Edition of 300 The "Comisario Mendoza" trilogy from Spanish filmmaker José Antonio de la Loma is a very strange genre series with an informal bond established through the titular character who was played by a different actor in each of the movies. From the first film, La redada (aka Barcelona Kill, 1973, with John Justin as Mendoza) to the last, Metralleta Stein (1975, Francisco "Paco" Rabal as Mendoza, with El último viaje (1974, Eduardo Fajardo as Mendoza) in between, each film is relatively d…
Peccato Senza Malizia
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to Peccato Senza Malizia (aka Sins Without Intentions, 1975), an elusive romantic drama by a similarly enigmatic albeit one-time filmmaker, Theo Campanelli. The film tells the story of Stefania, an 18-year old girl leaving her orphanage in Ascoli Piceno who moves in with her stepfather, a humble and simplistic fisherman. Seeing the girl as a wife and a lover rather than a daughter, the unnamed stepfather ignites an abusive relationship …
La Donna Della Calda Terra
* 2023 stock * Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to José María Forqué's La Donna Della Calda Terra (aka LA MUJER DE LA TIERRA CALIENTE, or FURY, as it's sometimes known in the English market). This 1978 film was a product of the resurgence of erotic cinema that took place during the 1970s, spearheaded by Sylvia Kristel's Emmanuelle (1974). Among that film's many imitators is La Donna Della Calda Terra, starring Laura Gemser. Best known for BLACK EMANUELLE, Gemser gets p…
Ingrid Sulla Strada
* 2023 stock * Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to Ingrid Sulla Strada (Ingrid on the Road), a 1973 Italian psychological drama. The film was written and directed by Brunello Rondi, known primarily as a script-writer and script consultant who had often collaborated with Federico Fellini. Rondi's directorial debut came in 1961 with the film Violent Life, and he went on to make a number of psychological/sexual dramas of which Ingrid Sulla Strada was one of the last.
The …
Apocalypse Domani
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to Antonio Margheriti's horror film Apocalypse Domani, better known in English terrotories as Zombie Apocalypse and sometimes by its alternate US title, Invasion of the Flesh Hunters). The movie was released in 1980, one of no less than ten flesh-eating horror classics emerging in that year alone. Cannibal Apocalypse is rather unique in comparison, occupying several genres at once – merging the cannibal film with the flesh-eating zombie…
Sans Sommation
* 2023 stock * Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to the 1973 German-French-Italian co-production Sans Sommation (called WITHOUT APPEAL in the UK, worldwide English title WITHOUT WARNING), helmed by French director Bruno Gantillon and featuring a score by Daniele Patucchi. The film is an entertaining thriller that plays out satisfactorily.
Maurice Ronet stars as discredited police inspector Raoul Maury, who made the mistake as a policeman of going after a politician's ne…
Il Sorriso Del Ragno
* 2023 stock * Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to Il Sorriso Del Ragno, composed by Daniele Patucchi. The title of this 1971 Italian film is properly translated into English as "The Spider's Smile," but the film, if known at all, is probably best recognized by its International English title, Web Of Deception. It's the only film directed by Massimo Castellani, who had better success as a script supervisor and a second unit or assistant director.
Based on a script writ…
Keoma / Il Cacciatore Di Squali
** 180g black vinyl with a gatefold tip-on cover** Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the first fully licensed and official release of the sought after soundtrack of Keoma, now on vinyl for the first time! Keoma features a unique and pervasive score by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis. These prolific musical brothers are well known for their predominantly song-based approach to scoring Italian films. With their background in popular music, it's no surprise that their film scoring approach is p…
Metralleta Stein
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the soundtrack to Metralleta Stein, an adventurous crime thriller written and directed by José Antonio de la Loma, taken for the first time from the first generation tapes (previ ous releases were taken from the LP master). This film was the third movie in a trilogy of crime thrillers involving Police Comisario Emilio Mendoza; the first two had featured the intrepid Comisario investigating urban crime and drug traffickers; Metralleta Stein is a more reso…
Second Spring (Soundtrack)
* 2023 stock * Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents for the first time the complete soundtrack to Second Spring, a West German/Italian coproduction released in 1975, written and directed by Ulli Lommel (1944-2017). Lommel is considered one of the most consistently creative filmmakers to come from the New German Cinema, with 65 credits as director in a variety of genres. The movie stars Curd Jürgens as womanizing bon vivant who has finally come to terms with growing old and decided to settle…
Scorticateli Vivi
* 2023 stock * 1978's Scorticateli Vivi is a cynical mercenary exploiter that was the last of four films Stelvio Cipriani scored for director Mario Siciliano. The film is best known in the US under the rather grotesquely alluring title Skin 'Em Alive, even though no one actually gets skinned alive in the movie; it is also known under its 1980 Philippines English language release title, Wild Geese Attack, in an attempt to suggest to theatergoers that it was a direct sequel to the 1978 Andrew V. M…
Si puo' essere piu' bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff?
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents for the first time the complete soundtrack to Massimo Dallamano's 1973 crime thriller, Si Può Essere Più Bastardi Dell'ispettore Cliff? (which loosely translates as Can Anyone be More [of a] Bastard than Inspector Cliff?), also known by its American release title, Mafia Junction). The film features a powerful, jazz-based score composed by internationally-popular Italian film composer Riz Ortolani (1926-2014).
Ortolani may be best known internationally fo…
Buitres Sobre La Ciudad (Avvoltoi Sulla Città)
* 2023 stock * Avvoltoi sulla città – known in Spain and Latin America as Buitres sobre la ciudad, and translated from the Italian as Vultures Over The City – is a kinetic 1981 crime thriller film starring Maurizio Merli as a journalist investigating local Mafia activities. When he gets too close to the gangsters responsible for a local assassination, he winds up paying a terrible price – but revenge will be his by the time the last bloody corpse crumples onto the ground.
This Spanish-Italian-Me…
Il Grande Racket
Now for the first time on vinyl, Four Flies Records is proud to present an unmissable Eurocrime soundtrack by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, composed in 1976 and considered to be one of the genre’s finest offerings directed by Enzo G. Castellari. Perhaps the most forceful Ost from the Italian duo, Il Grande Racket consists of fuzz distortion and electronic effects from the beginning to the end. This sonic gem is also enriched with psychedelic flutes, obsessive rhythms, and percussion which results…
Il Consigliori
Riz Ortolani's soundtrack for Il Consigliori (1973) is a varied mix of elements, approaches, and methods, and it will satisfy collectors searching for depth and emotion in their soundtracks. Riz Ortolani is not only one of the few remaining Maestro's of the silver age of film music in Italy, but he is acknowledged, much as with Ennio Morricone, as having procured solid international success. The composer is most famous for his multi-million dollar hit single More, from the exploitation documenta…
Solamente Nero
* 2023 stock * Among the most important scores of Maestro Stelvio Cipriani's oeuvre, and one that has been out of print for many years, Chris' Soundtrack Corner is pleased to make this music available again.
Solamente Nero ("Only Blackness," aka The Bloodstained Shadow) was the second film from Italian director Antonio Bido. With this sophomore feature, Bido created a very stylish and complex giallo thriller about a priest who witnesses a murder and subsequently becomes targeted by the killer, w…
Ecologia Del Delitto
* 2023 stock * Stelvio Cipriani had been scoring films since 1967 when he accepted the assignment to compose the music for Mario Bava's proto-slasher film, Ecologia Del Delitto (Ecology of Crime, aka A Bay of Blood) in 1971. The first of three films he would score for the legendary Italian director, it would be followed by GLI ORRORI DEL CASTELLO DI NORIMBERGA (aka BARON BLOOD et al.) in 1972 and Cani Arrabbiati (1974; RABID DOGS, also now available in an extended edition from Chris' Soundtrack …
Cani Arrabbiati
* 2023 stock * Mario Bava began production on his crime thriller Cani Arrabbiati (Rabid Dogs) in 1973. Beset by one problem after another, it took nearly a quarter century for the film to get a restored release, long after its director's death in 1980. Even then the film was a shadow of Bava's original intent, existing as a polished work print modified by diverse hands into several variegated forms.
By the early 1970s, Bava's mastery of artistic Italian science fiction and horror films was becom…