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Eli Roth on Curating the Music of Italian Sex Comedies for a New Album Series, and How His First Release ‘Is Going to Make the World a Groovier Place’
Filmmaker Eli Roth talks about new albums he is releasing curating his favorite music from Italian sex comedies, plus his new Horror Section studio.
Italian cinema is also a weird passion of Roth’s, an operatic brand of filmmaking starting with what he calls “the eenies” (Antonioni, Fellini, Rossellini, Pasolini), on through the over-the-top, high-octane violence of less prestigious films like 1985’s “Demons,” where everything was obviously dubbed into English and seemed off-kilter. Rattling off legendary Italian composers such as Franco Campanino, Stelvio Cipriani, Bruno Nicolai, Paolo Gatti, Gianni Ferrio, Riz Ortolani and Daniele Patucchi, Roth compares their oddly stylized music to the vibrancy of each of their films. Mention his influence on successful 21st century fright-focused filmmakers such as Robert Eggers (“Nosferatu”), Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”), Oz Perkins (“The Monkey”) and Ti West (“MaXXXine”), and Roth turns to masters from his past as a way of paying things forward.
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