I guess the theme for this week is “strange pop cultural connections I should have made with a certain Italian horror movie years ago.” This might seem like a strange theme to some people, but it’s pretty normal for me. In fact, I think it’s popped up several times before.
On Monday, I
blogged about a certain actress Eva Robin’s, whose unique name spelling and she-male status had bypassed me each time I’d seen the Dario Argento film
Tenebre. And here I had thought I knew everything there was to know about
Tenebre. Not so, even yet. Somehow I missed that the film’s title theme was remade by Justice on the duo’s 2007 track, “Phantom” — a song I own and at one point listened to frequently without ever realizing how much of a debt it owed to a movie I like.
Here’s Justice’s “Phantom”:
And here’s the kickass theme to
Tenebre:
The band that plays the
Tenebre theme is Italian prog rock group Gobin, who still perform today. Argento featured the band in a number of his films, perhaps most memorably in
Suspiria. I had reason to think of the band earlier this week because the trailer for the very gothic and unexpectedly exciting
Jane Eyre adaptation by Cary Fukunaga. I swear: Never has
Jane Eyre seemed so exciting.
Here’s the trailer:
And here’s the
Suspiria theme that is featured in the trailer at about twenty-seven seconds in.
At this point, I should probably point out that this week doesn’t even mark the first time a Dario Argento film was unexpectedly referenced in something else I was enjoying. Comedian Drew Droege has been releasing this awesome videos parodying Chloe Sevign. The
Halloween Hallowe’en video uses one of the backgrounds from
Suspiria. Watch for it around the 1:10 mark.
So way to go Dario Argento, I guess.
Final note: Now there’s a post tag cluster I never expected to see.
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