And yes, the music is great. Does anybody remember the camera angle from the descending elevator -- it was a shot of the husband walking towards the camera in a concrete courtyard? I love the funky bit of music there. When I first heard it, I ran to the closet, dug out my gee-tar, quickly learned the notes and starting playing along with it.
Ha, a man after my own heart. If you're in tune with the vibe of a lot of Euro film scores some of those melodies hit you big time.
I don't remember the shot you're talking about but I certainly remember the optical freezes. When I saw it, the theater had gotten really quiet by then. It was another example of something I love about a lot of exploitation films -- that despite the odds being against them, sometimes they start to WORK in a way that is unexpected and it takes an audience by surprise. When I was very young the first movie I remember doing that was EVIL DEAD -- I was 13 and saw it in a theater (on a triple feature) and everyone was heckling it... but soon they got really IN to it. The whole idea that a movie could do that blew me away as a kid.
