Porno Holocaust soundtrack

Porno Holocaust is a movie that I'm honestly not that big a fan of, even though it's an interesting conversation piece. This hybrid of gory island creature feature and hardcore pornography was filmed during director Joe D'Amato and writer/co-star George Eastman's extended vacation in the Caribbean islands, a session that also produced films like Sesso Nero, Orgasmo Nero, Porno Esotic Love and the much superior horror/porn hybrid Erotic Nights Of The Living Dead. At a running time of just under two hours, over half of which is devoted to the numerous ridiculously long and uncomfortably awful porn sequences throughout the entire film, it gets boring extremely quickly. It doesn't help that one of the main male performers, Mark Shannon (aka Manlio Cersosimo), has a visibly serious case of genital warts. Eurgh.

However, this soundtrack by Nico Fidenco, a frequent D'Amato collaborator, is nothing short of excellent, and easily one of the best things about the film. It mixes the best that the porn-groove sound has to offer and seamlessly mixes it with a Caribbean atmosphere, during the sequences that the soundtrack is upbeat. There are a few ominous pieces throughout that are a little boring, but not every soundtrack can be all killer and no filler, especially for a film that really needed to fill some boring scenes with anything. Thankfully, this also includes the odd English-language love theme of sorts that appears during one of the porn sequences; I'd have imagined if anything was missing from the masters, it'd have been that mysterious song.

This soundtrack was released by BEAT Records in early 2012, as a limited run of 500 copies. I have no clue if the soundtrack is still being sold on BEAT's site, but I remember seeing a post a while back saying that only about 50 copies are left, and I imagine even less are left now. While most of this soundtrack's track listing is listed as numbered sequences, there is one bonus track smack dab in the middle of the album: Nico Fidenco's theme to the Italian TV miniseries Sexy Night. Since this song is nowhere in the film, I assume that when BEAT found the masters to the Porno Holocaust soundtrack, the master to the Sexy Night theme was just in there with them. This theme did show up in Sesso Nero, but isn't included in BEAT's soundtrack of that film.