Associated with director Brian de Palma with whom he has worked several times, Pino Donaggio has often written music in the suspense vein. Listening to it you will here the influence of Bernard Herrmann just as much as you will see Alfred Hitchcock's influence in the director's work. Yet Donaggio's music also includes an element from modern pop culture perhaps in keeping with the cast of and intended audience for some of these films.
Donaggio did not start out working in Hollywood, and you can find many Italian made films whose music is credited to him. Those films listed below are among his better known movies in English. The soundtrack to "The Howling" has never been released on CD but an online campaign has been started to gather support for a CD release.
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