Italian composer Fabio Frizzi began paying tribute to frequent collaborator Lucio Fulci with a live show titled Frizzi 2 Fulci in 2013, which paved the way for The Beyond: Composer’s Cut in 2022. Following its success, the maestro began working on a composer’s cut for another Fulci classic.

Zombie: Composer’s Cut features Frizzi’s reworked score to Fucli’s 1979 film performed live to a screening of the film, transforming a mere movie viewing into a concert experience. Currently touring the US, I ate up the performance at Sonia in Cambridge, Ma on September 7.

The new soundtrack isn’t wall-to-wall music; Frizzi smartly opted to stay true to his original score — the oft-reprised prog rock main theme, the eerie synthesizer soundscapes, the tribal rhythms that evoke a voodoo curse — with some reinterpretation and expansion along the way. The music occasionally overpowers the dialogue, but Fulci often placed more importance on style than plot anyway.