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FA6504 Gli amanti d'oltre tomba / Lovers from Beyond the Tomb
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 001-11

AMANTI D’OLTRETOMBA [NIGHTMARE CASTLE] (1965)

Amanti d’Oltretomba, also known as Nightmare Castle, is one of the first of the many Italian giallo horror movies Morricone scored during his long and distinguished career. Directed by Mario Caiano using the pseudonym Allen Grünewald, it’s a sort of ‘serious’ version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which a pair of young lovers (Barbara Steele and Giuseppe Addobbati) are tortured murdered by the woman’s vengeful mad scientist ex-husband (Paul Muller). The twist comes when the scientist, in order to secure the inheritance from his wife’s family, has to marry her lunatic sister (also plated by Barbara Steele), and who is now cursed with the spirit of his dead wife!

Morricone’s main theme for the film comes across as something of a twisted lullaby, a superficially beautiful piece for solo piano and lush, gently lilting strings, which masks a grotesque core of pain, blood, and death. In fact, many of the films more horrific scenes are scored with organ music, placing a pseudo-religious slant to the proceedings, and a level of creepy, moody uneasiness. There are also several sequences of quite challenging orchestral dissonance, with long period of brooding, unnerving string writing.

The score for Amanti d’Oltretomba has been released several times – firstly as a vinyl LP in the 1960s, paired with the score for 1978 sci-fi film L’Umanoide in 1992, then as a standalone solo CD from GDM Records in 2006, and most recently in a digitally re-mastered version from GDM/Intermezzo Media in 2015, paired with the score for the 1974 film Milano Odia: La Polizia Non Può Sparare. Once again, the main theme can also be found on the comprehensive 15-CD compilation Ennio Morricone: The Complete Edition, released by GDM Music in 2008.

Track Listing: 1. Amanti d’Oltretomba (5:34), 2. Contrappunto Tragico (8:06), 3. Distesi (8:16), 4. Spettri (2:10), 5. Per Organo e Ottoni (6:59), 6. Dall’Oltretomba (5:56), 7. Amanti d’Oltretomba (2:18). GDM Music/Intermezzo Media Records 03015, 39 minutes 19 seconds.
August 13, 2017
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Amanti Doltretomba (01:27)
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Per Organo E Ottoni (07:02)
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Amanti Doltretomba (01:56)
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Distesi (02:18)
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Istinti (00:53)
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Contrappunto Tragico (02:26)
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Amanti Doltretomba (02:22)
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La Fine Degli Amanti (03:26)
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Dalloltretomba (05:54)
Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
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