If you're a fan of Italian genre films, and you haven't seen Antonio Margheriti's The Last Hunter, I urge you to track down the Dark Sky Films DVD as quickly as you can. Not only is it a beautiful gore-soaked Vietnam War epic (originally created to be sold as an unofficial sequel to Michael Cimino's far inferior The Deer Hunter), but it also has a remarkably star-studded cast; star-studded for the Italo-cult world, of course. David Warbeck, Tisa Farrow, Bobby Rhodes, Tony King, Margie Newton, Massimo Vanni, Luciano Pigozzi, John Steiner... holy shit, this film is loaded, and everyone is great and perfectly fitting in their roles.
Franco Micalizzi's soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal, too. While the film couldn't score tons of Vietnam-era rock music like plenty of the more famous films of the subgenre, it makes up for it in spades by way of Micalizzi's infinitely funky compositions here, which are perfectly set against the film's lush green jungle backdrop. This release by Chris' Soundtrack Corner, a newer label to the Italian soundtrack game, is just as good as any soundtrack by BEAT or Digitmovies. I believe it's sourced from a digital release from early 2013, but I personally don't buy digital releases ever, so I'm glad this soundtrack now has much more permanence on physical media.
The odd thing about this release is that it comes packaged with a spare, slightly different liner notes booklet, if you would like to have the front cover and the liner notes without the long red title effect that reaches through the entire booklet. It's interesting, but since this effect also reaches through the disc art and the back cover without variants for those, and the spare cover doesn't have the title on the front like the digital release version does, I honestly don't see any point in it. It's also a bit difficult to try to fit both liner note booklets into the jewel case, but I actually managed it after a while.
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