While Beyond The Door is a mostly unique, surreal, and beautiful experience, it is still going to drive several comparisons to Rosemary's Baby and especially The Exorcist, and for good reason. That isn't to deny it of its many, many positive qualities, but Italian producer Ovidio G. Assonitis' big followup of sorts, The Visitor (this version of the soundtrack presented under its original Italian title Stridulum), is an absolutely unique experience free of any real comparison. One of the biggest original Italian productions of the 70s in terms of its pure star power, surreal as hell but still sensible enough to keep the viewer along if and only if you're watching the uncut international version, and visually and sonically beautiful in just about every aspect. Franco Micalizzi's score here is a pure gem, especially when driven by the strength of the film's visuals.
Sadly, this Digitmovies edition of the soundtrack seems to have also fallen out of print, but it wasn't the last time I checked... which, honestly, was before Drafthouse's Blu came out. (Which, after seeing the downright shady shit Drafthouse seemed to have pulled around Code Red's release of the film, as well as hearing friends telling me the Blu doesn't look very good, I don't feel comfortable purchasing.) I know there seems to be an LP from RCA Italy which I assume dates to either the late 70s or early 80s, and in the early 90s, there was a dual soundtrack release of this paired with the soundtrack to Peter Del Monte's awful, horrible, terrible, abysmal, pathetic, Bad, BAD, BAD pile of garbage Etoile, and clearly I couldn't recommend buying something like that. If you can track this down for cheap enough, get it, because even the OOP prices I've seen seem to be not as bad as the ones for the Beyond The Door soundtrack.
