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Donaggio's HOWLING score sampled in SCREAMERS (1981)?


I hope I'm not alone in noticing this.

Pino Donaggio has a very distinctive sound, and his beloved score to THE HOWLING is very consistent with his entire body of work around this time.

The infamous Italian horror/fantasy film SCREAMERS (aka ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN) was ultimately given US release by the same pocket of low-budget producers/distributors, and with its tacked-on American-shot prologue involving many of the Roger Corman/New World Pictures/Avco Embassy usual suspects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Jvk3KoWzQ

Obviously, a whole other score composer is credited to SCREAMERS/FISHMAN akin to its original Italian production team. However, if one watches that American-shot prologue added for the American release (in the link above)...those stingers that are heard just as the fishmen attack the treasure hunters (and also one during a jump scare when something freaks out Eunice Bolt in the cave) sound an awful lot like a Donaggio HOWLING score excerpt.

In particular, they sound like a very short excerpt of a much longer Donaggio HOWLING track that is then sampled back-to-back(-to-back-to-back...) to create a quick succession of strings riffs that create the total stinger effect.

Can anyone else confirm or deny this? Has it been mentioned anywhere, or have any of you at least noticed it? If looking at that link above, pay particular attention to those attack moments. That's the bit I'm referring to.

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