I know i've enthused at length about Lukas Moodysson before and will bore anyone who'll listen to death about "high-brow" directors like Tarkovsky, Kieslowski and Bergman but, cinematically, one of my greatest loves is the classic European exploitation film. I'm a huge fan of questionable auteurs like Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, and the finest of them all, Italian horror maestro Dario Argento, now sadly less well-known than his daughter Asia. Argento's masterpieces were made all the more effective by astonishing scores by the prog-rock group Goblin. Listening to the terrific Vampires by Italo-disco stars Radiorama, it's impossible not to hear the enormous influence of the soundtracks to those films - Profondo Rosso in particular. The unsettling atmosphere is, however, somewhat undercut by the rather camp spoken intro.



Radiorama - Vampires