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FA7106 Gli occhi freddi della paura / Cold Eyes of Fear
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 11-105

GLI OCCHI FREDDI DELLA PAURA (1971)

Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura, released in English as Cold Eyes Of Fear, is an Italian thriller directed by Enzo Girolami Castellari. The film stars Gianni Garko as Peter, a handsome young playboy who picks up a pretty girl named Anna (Giovanna Ralli), and takes her to the house of his father Juez, a prominent local judge (Fernando Rey). However, instead of enjoying a night of passion, Peter and Anna arrive and are immediately kidnapped by two dangerous ex-convicts who are bent on revenge against Juez, who is the man who sent them to prison.

Morricone’s score is another one of his Gruppo d’Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza scores, abstract and dissonant, a collision of psychotic wailing jazz textures, musique concrète, and long sequences of instrumental impressionism that test the patience. The opening cue, “Seguita,” is a vivid explosion of free jazz featuring especially frenetic passages featuring electric guitars, stand up bass, and soprano saxophones, as well as electronic manipulations and yowling voices that sound like cats in heat. I’m serious. The title cue, “Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura,” is an extended exercise in scraping things against each other, bizarre metallic sound effects and seemingly random outbursts of noise that certainly unsettle the listener, but force the listener to examine the limits of their endurance.

And so the score goes… virtually the entire rest of the score is based on these ideas, with very little of anything that could be described as thematic consonance. There isn’t a single cue where Morricone breaks out into anything resembling a melody. People who really dig Morricone’s super-experimental super-avant garde scores, as well as people who appreciate atonal free jazz, may find Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura to their liking; I’m glad I’ve heard it, but once is enough for me.

Amazingly, Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura has been released on CD multiple times over the years, apparently because some people actually wanted to hear MORE of this cacophonous noise than was on the original release. This review is of the Dagored release that came out in the year 2000.

Track Listing: 1. Seguita (3:18), 2. Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura (3:32), 3. Evaporazione (2:23), 4. Notte E Misteri (1:47), 5. Urla Nel Nulla (3:19), 6. Folle Folle (3:42), 7. Evanescente (4:13), 8. Dal Sogno E Ritorno (2:38), 9. Ritorno All ‘Inizio (3:23), 10. Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura I (2:45), 11. Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura II (2:09), 12. Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura III (1:43), 13. Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura IV (2:23), 14. Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura V (1:27), 15. Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura VI (4:33), 16. Gli Occhi Freddi Delia Paura VII (1:48). Dagored 119-2, 45 minutes 03 seconds.
March.6, 2021
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Seguita (03:18)
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Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura (03:32)
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Evaporazione (02:23)
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Notte e Misteri (01:47)
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Urla Nel Nulla (03:19)
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Folle Folle (03:42)
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Evanescente (04:13)
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Dal Sogno e Ritorno (02:38)
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Ritorno All'inizio (03:23)
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Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura I (02:45)
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Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura II (02:09)
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Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura III (01:43)
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Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura IV (02:23)
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Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura V (01:27)
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Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura VI (04:33)
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Gli Ochhi Freddi Della Paura VII (01:48)
Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
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