'Paganini Horror' (1988) – Luigi Cozzi.

It's pleasing to note that inventive Italian genre film-maker, Luigi Cozzi's reputation has improved greatly over the years. The spiffing HD edition of his gloriously gooey Goblin-scored Sci-fi splatter sensation 'Contamination' deservedly garnered many new appreciative Sci-splatter fans. Maestro, Cozzi's frequently misunderstood, garishly orchestrated, grisly-Gothic Giallo is an eccentric, enjoyably off-beat slasher serenade that occasionally hits a bum note. Lesser film-makers merely recycle trends, the inventive genre iconoclast, Luigi Cozzi ventures haphazardly into hysterical dimensions of creepy celluloid phantasmagoria hitherto unimagined by more conventional fright-makers! 

'Paganini Horror' orchestrates a tasty riff on the familiar terror trope of a fear-flocked Faustian pact for fame and fortune. Daria Nicolodi & Luigi Cozzi's sinisterly surrealistic shocker finds drummer Daniel (Pascal Persiano) foolhardily purchasing satanic sheet music from the monumentally shady-looking pact-maker, Mr. Pickett (Donald Pleasence). His band, energised by this singular piece of previously unheard Paganini music, enthusiastically records the infamous violinist's supposedly 'lost' work. This provides the malign musical catalyst that heralds a demented aria of golden Stradivarius-delivered death! The bouncily nubile rock group's crimson-splashed, slasher-themed video shoot becomes an operatically grisly snuff symphony. The delightfully ghoulish-looking, Paganini slays them all like a fiddle, his phantasmal fury culminating memorably in a hair-raisingly gruesome crescendo of surrealistic slayage! The diabolically dissonant 'Paganini Horror' remains a golden Giallo oddity about a highly strung, symphonically sinister sadist that still savagely slashes its way to the very top of the schlock-tastic 80s slasher charts!