Hyde's Secret Nightmare


Kronos Records (885767154346)
Movie | Release date: 08/21/2012 | Film release: 2011 | Format: CD, Download
Limited edition: 250 copies
 

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# Track   Duration
1.Bad Dream1:58
2.Hyde's Nightmare2:31
3.Bed of Horrors2:06
4.Body Language2:16
5.Vintage Tension2:57
6.Truth or Dare2:14
7.Transformation2:55
8.Sad-Uction2:41
9.Death Lover3:42
10.Bad Memories1:51
11.Mother2:11
12.Elektro Dark4:06
13.Twinge of Love2:50
14.Love You Madly2:37
15.Beyond the Mirror2:06
16.Serial Kill Her2:42
17.Love Bites3:33
18.Original Sin2:45
19.Revelation2:04
20.Hyde's End Titles2:20
21.Hyde's Secret Nightmare2:16
22.Poe's Short Titles0:47
23.Poetry of Eerie4:02
 59:30
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Hyde's Secret Nightmare - 06/10 - Review of Lammert de Wit, submitted at
The Italian horror film Hyde's Secret Nightmare is a pseudo-artistic film, directed by Domiziano Christopharo, who is mainly producing a sort of erotic horror films and this film also fulfils that criteria. This film was apparently popular within the international world of horror fans, and it received several prizes. The story is based on the classic book about Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, but Christopharo has given it his own, almost pornographic twist.
The story revolves around Henry Chagall (Claudio Zanelli), a medical scientist who suffers from impotence. He experiments on bodies and ultimately drugs himself as a test to cure his impotence. The result is that he turns into a nymphomaniac woman with homicidal tendencies as long as the serum works. Well...

The music for this film is by Kristian Sensini, who composed the music for all of Christopharo's films. He has written a fairly accessible horror film score, without too much really creepy music. Yet a large part of the music is not an easy listening, because several tracks certainly are equipped with sounds and tension effects that are quite uncomfortable.

Senzini composed and recorded the music entirely in his own studio. The music comes almost entirely from the electronic trick box and is mainly made by using music samples. A large part of the music has a strong orchestral color, but there are also quite a few tracks that sound typically electronic. Even the electric guitar manages to give a rock-like color to some tracks, in which percussion is also prominent. In several tracks dark distorted voices present an alienating effect, which occasionally comes from a female operatic voice.
However, a lot of music sounds somewhere between orchestral and electronic, which gives it a somewhat different coloring. That's why the music regularly sounds quite pleasant, although the melodies often leave a lot to be desired. Sometimes the music sounds quite raw, but elsewhere dreamy. At the same time, most tracks have more or less a level of tension, which of course is not surprising, given the type of film.

In the liner notes of the CD, Sensini indicates that the music was inspired by many older horror films and Italian 'giallo' films. He considers his score a tribute to other horror composers such as Morricone, Goldsmith and Herrmann. Yet his music has no orchestral allure and the music sounds more as a kind of orchestral approach, while many tracks also clearly have electronic influences.

The score ends at track twenty with 'Hyde's End Titles', which is in a fairly pleasant minor key coloring. The double piano strikes on a quiet underscore work out well, but halfway the music nevertheless turns into horror mode with strange and chaotic sounds.
The album closes with three tracks that are not included in this film score. The first of these is the trailer music for this film, the second and final tracks are both from Sensini's score for the Italian film P.O.E: Poetry of Eerie.

In short, with his music for the horror film Hyde's Secret Nightmare, Kristian Sensini has composed a fairly accessible score for a horror film. The music is somewhere between orchestral and electronic, with regular excursions into the rock genre. The music comes entirely out of the electronic box with samples, but Sensini has done that well. The music doesn't have a creepy edge too often, making it all quite listenable and a bit between dream and nightmare. The rating for enjoyable listenability for this horror score thus amounts to a quite reasonable 61 out of 100 points.
Hyde's Secret Nightmare is an erotic/horror reactionary reinterpretation of the Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The movie includes into its cast one of the most important italian and international actors, such as Venantino Venantini, Roberta Gemma, Nancy De Lucia, Alvia Reale, Yuri Antonosante, Lucia Batassa, Giovanna Nocetti,Francesco Malcolm and Matthias Vannelli. In Hyde's Secret Nightmare, porn actors will join 'normal' actors, in order to create delirious and surreal situations. Claudio Zanelli will play the role of Dr Jekyll, while Roberta Gemma will play the role of Mr Hyde.

The production was given the right to use the music Nino Rota composed for Fellini's movies. The player Kristian Sensini, instead, has composed new original themes for the movie, too and the music written and performed by Sensini is what we are releasing. A very original score, tailor made for lovers of 70's Italian horror / giallo films. This CD iwill be an extremely limited edition pressing of 250 copies and will be available on 21st August, 2012.

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