Claudio Simonetti (born 1952) is Italian composer, musician and keyboardist for legendary prog band Goblin which delivered many great tunes and soundtracks for Italian horror movies. Simonetti´s specialty is music for horror movies and he composed some really great tunes from 1970 onward working with Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Lucio Fulci, Ruggero Deodato, Umberto Lenzi or Sergio Martino.

This is soundtrack for Lamberto Bava´s fantastic 1985 classic, one of the best that Italian genre has to offer. I still remember the movie poster when this one played in my hometown back in the second half of the eighties. There was a cinema there called Dom (meaning Home in Croatian) which showed old school karate/kung fu movies, Italian Mad Max clones, sword and sorcery movies and horror. I was scared as little kid with tagline ‘Cities will become graves’ I think it was like that or something. Years later, this movie never ceases to amaze, along with superb soundtrack which is a mixture of electronic music, synth prevailed melodies, almost happy main tune called Demon which is spooky along with kind of jolly. Miniatures like Threat and Cruel Demon are sure to make perfect atmospheric intermezzos between the main body of the album. There are couple of versions of the main song, for me especially great being piano version bringing along even more heavy horror atmosphere and reminding me why I love this movie so much. Besides prog influences and electronica, there are couple of pop influenced melodies here and there in the greater picture. Great soundtrack to fantastic movie!