Bruno Nicolai for Jess Franco

Discogs ID: 29703025

Release date: 2024-04-22

Editor: Digitmovies

Artists: Bruno Nicolai

Digitmovies presents a double white LP a selection of the best themes composed by Bruno
Nicolai for the movies of Jess Franco: “A virgin among the living dead”, “99 women”,
“Nightmares come at night” and “Eugenie – De Sade’70”, one for each side of the records.

A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD

SOUNDTRACK
The side A open with a suspenseful and mysterious theme given by an introduction of harp
with echo, celesta, in order to develop itself in a chaotic, much modern and rhythmic motif,
with sacred flavour given by a liturgical organ. This score features several atonal music
themes for strings with additional distorted electric guitar. Bruno Nicolai has written a
wonderful love theme for the main character of Christine, a sweet and melancholic theme
performed by the crystal voice of Edda Dell’Orso.

DIRECTOR AND CAST
Directed by Jess Franco.
Cast: Christina Von Blanc, Howard Vernon, Britt Nichols, Paul Muller, Anne Libert, Jess
Franco.

THE PLOT
The student Christina travels from London to the castle of her family for the reading of the will
of her father that she has never known and recently committed suicide. On the arrival, she
meets her weird Uncle Howard, his wife Abigail and his daughter Carmencé and Linda, a
blind girl and a mute servant. She starts entwining daydreams and nightmares with reality.
When she has an encounter with the spirit of her deceased father, he tries to warn her to
leave that place that is evil, but it is too late. 

99 WOMEN

SOUNDTRACK
Bruno Nicolai has written and conducted a symphonic score that alternates mysterious,
dramatic and action themes to other romantic and sensual ones given by the sax and the
orchestra that reprise instrumental variations of the main theme song “The day I was born”.

DIRECTOR AND CAST
Directed by Jess Franco.
Cast: Mercedes McCambridge, Maria Schell, Rosalba Neri, Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom, Jess
Franco.

THE PLOT
Off the coast of Panama, there is an island with a female penal colony, run by a sadistic
superintendent. When several prisoners mysteriously die, leading to a breakout and mutiny,
an extensive investigation of the horrific events begins.

NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT

SOUNDTRACK
For this movie Bruno Nicolai has written an OST of experimental kind, perfect as background
for the protagonist’s recurrent nightmares. “Tra sogno e vita”, the original main titles, after an
intro of ethnic sound effects presents a medley of experimental motifs, developed later in the
OST, among them, in a theme for atonal strings. Bruno Nicolai alternates experimental
atmospheres with piano and percussions, with suspended motifs for guitar, organ and light
percussions and with a magic love theme.

DIRECTOR AND CAST
Directed by Jess Franco.
Cast: Diana Lorys, Paul Muller, Jack Taylor, Colette Giacobine, Soledad Miranda (con lo
pseudonimo di Susan Korda).

THE PLOT
Anna a young striper in a sleazy cabaret is seduced by Cinzia that invites her to move to her
house. Anna is disturbed by nightmares, where she kills a man with a spear. Meanwhile a
couple that lives in the house next door spies Cinzia.

EUGENIE DE SADE ’70

SOUNDTRACK
For this LP we selected 9 tracks from double CD, selecting classic tracks to alternative
versions.

DIRECTOR AND CAST
Directed by Jess Franco.
Cast: Marie Lijiedahl, Maria Rohm, Jack Taylor, Christopher Lee, Paul Muller, Maria Luisa
Ponte.

THE PLOT
Eugenie, an innocent young woman, is taken to an island paradise where she initiated into a
world of pleasure and pain controlled by the sinister Dolmance. But when she surrenders to
her own forbidden fantasies, Eugenie becomes trapped in a frenzy of drugs, sadomasochism
and murder.

Tracklist:
  • A1 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 1 - 2:05
  • A2 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 2 - 1:22
  • A3 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 6 - 2:15
  • A4 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 7 - 3:07
  • A5 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 10 - 2:38
  • A6 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 11 - 2:01
  • A7 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 14 - 0:58
  • A8 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 17 - 0:58
  • A9 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 20 - 1:27
  • A10 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 21 - 2:33
  • A11 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 22 - 2:33
  • A12 - Una vergine tra i morti viventi seq 23 - 2:26
  • B1 - The day i was born - 3:38
  • B2 - 99 Donne seq 1 - 2:17
  • B3 - 99 Donne seq 4 - 2:30
  • B4 - 99 Donne seq 6 - 3:04
  • B5 - 99 Donne seq 8 - 2:15
  • B6 - 99 Donne seq 11 - 3:05
  • B7 - 99 Donne seq 15 - 1:50
  • B8 - 99 Donne seq 16 - 3:11
  • B9 - 99 Donne seq 24 - 2:18
  • C1 - Tra sogno e vita - 1:55
  • C2 - Tempio - 1:26
  • C3 - Cocktail - 5:14
  • C4 - Verde selvaggio - 4:58
  • C5 - Amori - 3:42
  • C6 - Le streghe #2 - 2:40
  • C7 - Tra sogno e vita - 4:05
  • D1 - Eugenie - 2:55
  • D2 - Criminal sex - 2:34
  • D3 - Cheek to cheek - 4:43
  • D4 - De sade - 2:45
  • D5 - Sky scrapers (alternate long version) - 1:59
  • D6 - Maranhao (alternate version) - 2:03
  • D7 - Eugenie (alternate version) - 1:06
  • D8 - Voice in the night - 2:22
  • D9 - Il cielo cade (alternate long version) - 3:55