Joe D’Amato’s Anthropophagus (1980)

kilby on January 4th, 2010 at 12:11 pm

Artist: Marcello Giombini (last.fm | Discogs)
Album: Anthropophagus* (UnOfficial Fan Site)
Genre: Horrror, Soundtrack, Ambient, Drone, Electronic
Similarities: Fabio Frizzi, Gianni Rossi, Kobold, Goblin, Craig Conner, Coil, Boards of Canada, John Harrison

This just may be the best horror movie soundtrack I have ever heard. Seriously. In the film’s most notorious scene, the killer strangles a pregnant woman while pulling the fetus from her womb and then devouring it (in reality the fetus was a skinned rabbit covered with fake blood).. The effect proved so convincing that the filmmakers were attacked and questioned as to whether they really extracted a human fetus from its mother’s womb.

Main Theme
 

Tema Romantico
 

A group of tourists arrive on a small Greek island, only to find it almost completely deserted. It seems that the only person still alive there is a blind girl who does not know what has happened to the rest of the town, but is terrified of a man who she describes as smelling of blood.

As members of the group disappear or are murdered by a mysterious man, the survivors search for clues as to what is going on. They find a diary, which tells the story of a man who was shipwrecked with his wife and child. In order to survive, the man was forced to eat his dead family. This act drove him insane and he went on to slaughter the rest of the island’s inhabitants.

The Anthropophagus Beast was director Joe d’Amato’s first ‘straight’ horror film, having previously made erotic horror films such as Emmanuelle in America and Erotic Nights of the Living Dead. D’Amato and co-writer Luigi Montefiori were long-time associates, and Montefiori often had lead roles in d’Amato’s films, usually under the pseudonym of George Eastman.

In the documentary Totally Uncut 2 d’Amato stated that the film was solely made for foreign markets; both the director and Montefiore claim that even though the film did very well in other countries it was a flop in Italy. Montefiore also revealed that he has never liked the movie, though he did enjoy making it.

The American dub of this movie has a complete different soundtrack then the original Italian cut of the movie.The real original soundtrack of “Antropophagus” was composed by Marcello Giombini and sounds nothing like the music used on the American dub. The new Italian 2 disc DVD contains the english dub with the real original soundtrack. Similar to a lot of the great horror scores 2 keyboards utilized in the soundtrack were that of the vintage ARP-2600.

Marcello Giombini was a composer of secular music and film music as well as being interested in electronic music. Marcello Giombini established himself especially in the sixties and the seventies as satisfy and creative maker in the renewal of the religious music also in liturgical area. He was also composer of many soundtrack for movies, especially of genre “Spaghetti western” and he was a “pioneer” in Italy of the electronic music. His father was a music professor who specialized in the oboe who also played in orchestras.

Infamous Fetus Scene

Download Anthropophagus Here. (via Rapidshare: 68 MB, Tracks & Artwork)

Ill Morti Viventi
 

Ballo Erotico
 

End Title
 

Arriving the Island
 

Exploring the Village
 

The Hunt/Trapped at the Cemetary
 

Abandoned Boat
 

Maggie Disappeared
 

Mansion of Klaus
 

Flashback
 

The Well
 

Tema Inizio
 

I Morti si Svegliano
 

Le Notti Erotiche dei Morti Viventi
 

Coolest Horror Movie Ending Ever.

Trailer for Anthropophagus 2 aka Absurd

* Italian translation, not incorrect spelling

** Audio use is for preview listening purposes only, all tracks can be found (for extremely cheap) via itunes, legalsounds.com as well as CD purchases through a number of online music stores. Any persons involved in the writing and.or production can contact me (kilby@knifefightingjesus.com) and links will be removed if desired.

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