back to home
onlyscore rss feed
sitemap
 
 
search
 
quick links
 
 
 
contact us
 > info@onlyscore.com
 > +39 0578 298379
 
our cards
onlyscore fidelity card
onlyscore gift card
 
short info
 
hover over me
 
 
 
 
i lunghi capelli della morte, carlo rustichelli, digitmovies
€ 16.50

 
i Lunghi capelli della morte
(1964)


composer: carlo rustichelli

label: digitmovies

AKA: the Long Hair Of Death, La sorciere sanglante

total duration: 00.42.08

soundtrack style: horror



   


tracks

01. I lunghi capelli della morte
02. Adele Karnstein
03. Tamburi di morte
04. Verso il rogo
05. Verso il rogo (parte 2)
06. Il rogo della strega
07. La maledizione
08. Fuga e agguato
09. Triste ricordo
10. Passaggio segreto
11. Matrimonio
12. Allucinanti visioni
13. Mente malvagia
14. Nella cripta
15. Macabra apparizione
16. Anima mea
17. Kurt e Mary
18. Amore maledetto
19. L'ombra di un fantasma
20. Piano diabolico
21. Amanti infernali
22. Immersi nelle tenebre
23. La fine di Kurt
24. Allucinanti visioni (versione singolo - lato A)
25. Verso il rogo (versione singolo - lato B)

 
 
further information
8 page colour booklet containing synopsis, cast list, colour movie stills and a reproduction of an original poster
 
description
Digitmovies presents the complete edition OST by Carlo Rustichelli from the 1964 cult movie I lunghi capelli della morte directed by the specialist Antonio Margheriti (aka Anthony M. Dawson) starring the Queen of the Macabre Barbara Steele in the double role of Helen Karnstein and Mary Karnstein, George Ardisson as Kurt Humboldt, Halina Zalewska as Elizabeth Karnstein and Umberto Raho as Von Klage.
The movie placed in a 15th-century feudal village, where a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death.
Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason of the execution, as a result of the lies of the lord who had sexual desire for her mother.
After confronting the lord on the matter, she is killed, too.
A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age, as a horrible, deadly plague sweeps the land, she marries Kurt, the lord's worthless son.
Then, during a brutal thunderstorm, the older daughter mysteriously reappears and begins to avenge her mother's death until justice triumphs over the guilty ones.
This gloomy atmosphere is well given by the orchestral music by Carlo Rustichelli, whose mono master tapes - well kept for more than four decades in the Historic Archives of C.A.M. - has given us one more time the opportunity to realize another important rescue.
At that time C.A.M. only released a 45 rpm single with the two tracks Allucinanti visioni and Verso il rogo (here tracks 24 & 25).
The score opens with Titoli di testa (Tr. 1), introduced by drum rolls and bell tolls to develop a dramatic theme that contains all the elements of the musical style of the author already evident in his scores for Mario Bava movies like La frusta e il corpo.
This motif is reprised in the form of a slow requiem in Tr. 4, Tr. 5, Tr. 6.
Carlo Rustichelli has created a whole series of tension atmospheres rotating around the main theme with a recurrent use of an instrument similar to the Theremin (Tr. 7, Tr. 10, Tr. 12, Tr. 13).
The composer wrote a slow and mystical Requiem for orchestra and male choir that accompanies the evil Lord's funeral (Tr. 16).
For the whole final sequence of the flames that brings to death Kurt, Carlo Rustichelli wrote an ancient dance, a kind of diabolical tarantella that brings back to the ancient pagan rites closing then with a glorious reprise of the Main theme (Tr. 23).
As bonus tracks (Tr. 24 & Tr. 25) we enclose the two rare tracks of the original single record: the alternate take of the single version (Tr. 12) and the edit purposely created for the record of the Tr. 4 e Tr. 5.
Another great rescue of the Italian Silver Age.
 
story

In the 15th century, a young woman is accused of being a witch and committing a murder.
She is burned at the stake.
Years later, during a plague, she is revived by lightning.
She returns to her village to prevent her daughter from marrying the man who actually committed the murder for which she was executed.

Cast:
Giorgio Ardisson, Giuliano Raffaelli, Umberto Raho, Barbara Steele, Halina Zalewska, Laura Nucci, Barbara Stelle

Director:
Antonio Margheriti

 

top