Filmmaker Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Thanksgiving), who is also a lover of Italian genre B-movies and the scintillating disco soundtracks that bolstered their hedonistic plots, has curated a collection of some of his favorite songs from the heyday of “commedia sexy all italiana,” or sexy Italian comedies, of the 1970s and ’80s, creating his own red light discothéque. Roth scoured the vaults of Italian soundtrack label CAM Sugar in order to create the compilation album Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco: Dancefloor Seductions From Italian Sexploitation Cinema.

CAM Sugar and Universal Music release the compilation set on March 21, 2025. The 20-track set includes kinky disco, psychedelic funk, swaggery rock and roll and seductive bossa nova, all handpicked by Roth who was granted unfettered access into CAM Sugar’s extensive archive of more than 2,000 Italian and French soundtracks. The music from these cult movies is highly sought after by fanatics of the genre along with lovers of Italian dance music, because much of it has never been released outside of the films.

Roth selected tracks from both Italian film music’s most famous and cult composers alike, including Stelvio Cipriani, Bruno Nicolai, Riz Ortolani, Franco Campanino, Gianni Ferrio, Nico Fidenco and Daniele Patucchi.

Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco: Dancefloor Seductions From Italian Sexploitation Cinema is released in several formats, including a standard version on either 2-LP black vinyl or CD, as well as a limited deluxe edition. The deluxe edition is pressed on red vinyl and features a mirrored cover, a 45 RPM 7 inch single with two rare cuts – one unreleased and one vinyl premiere – along with a poster and a set of postcards with unseen photographs from sexy Italian comedy film sets.

All versions of the album include a 28-page booklet titled “Eli Roth’s Guide To Italian Red Light Cinema,” with extensive liner notes by Roth, who conducts illuminating interviews with European cinema icon Edwige Fenech (Taxi Girl) and the daughter and granddaughter of Bombolo, one of the most famous Italian character actors of the era. The booklet also includes interviews with composer Franco Campanino, archival posters of many of the Red Light films, vintage press reviews and other archive ephemera from CAM Sugar’s vaults.

The collection also features restored and remastered audio from the original tapes and includes nine previously unreleased tracks that have never been released outside of these rare films, as well as four additional tracks released on vinyl for the first time.

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