Eli Roth on Curating the Music of Italian Sex Comedies for a New Album Series, and How His First Release ‘Is Going to Make the World a Groovier Place’

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A.D. Amorosi In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. For Eli Roth in spring, however, his fancies tend to turn darker, more menacingly humorous, and toward the more bloodily outrageous.

Take his plans for March 21. That’s when the horror film director-writer will be putting out the first release of his collaboration with the Italian soundtrack label CAM Sugar, “Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco: Dancefloor Seductions From Italian Sexploitation Cinema,” which will be distributed through Universal Music.

March 21 is also the day that Roth begins offering “stock” to his rabid fanbase in what he calls his independent “mini-studio,” the Horror Section, in partnership with the investing platform Republic.

An obsessive when it comes to music and film — be it admiration for the currency of horror filmmakers, his own slasher cinematic catalog, or the “commedia sexy all’italiana” soundtracks of the 1970s and early 1980s — Roth is a fast-talking and funny fount of knowledge. “I have a fucked-up sense of humor,” says Roth, in considering the black comedy ripe within his most popular films, such as 2005’s “Hostel,” 2007’s “Hostel: Part II” (infamous for its elaborate blood-gushing torture scene featuring Heather Matarazzo) and 2023’s “Thanksgiving.” “I like putting things in my movies that are so sick, they’re funny.