World premiere release of two Carlo Savina horror scores,
written for Italian-Spanish co-productions, both shot at the
picturesque site of San Martín de Valdeiglesias.
Malenka La Nipote Del Vampiro stars Anita Ekberg as the beautiful
heiress to a castle, who is sucked into dark magical practices
by her youthful uncle, who claims to be 500 years old due
to a magic spell.
I Diabolici Convegni stars Krista Nell as a woman looking
after her disappeared sister, coming across a twisted doctor
who abducts vacationing beauties on a regular basis.
Both films receive excellent underscores by Carlo Savina,
who uses an organ to lend a Gothic feel to the castle, coloring
his music with exotic pop and jazz elements to make the story's
more relatable and contemporary.
The release contains all the surviving music from both productions.
In the case of Malenka, the music had been mastered from a
monaural tape to feature the complete score as it was recorded.
As a special bonus, we also include eight cuts remixed into
stereo from the sole surviving 8-track tape.
The program for I Diabolici Convegni is much shorter, amounting
to around 20 minutes, but it's all the original music
Savina wrote for the film.
While there's a lot more score in the film, those cues
were taken from earlier productions and are thus not featured
on the disc.
The disc also includes the title song Malenka by Giulia Rei
and My Wonderful Day from I diavolici convegni. |