Bava's choice of music (and composer) has sometimes been very
uneven: Carlo Rustichelli's romanticized and treacly music for Whip and the Body detracted from the film's pinched, sadistic sequences; Libra's prog - rock
score for Shock felt at times like an effects - ridden mimic of Goblin's supernatural
score for Dario Argento's Suspiria; and Stelvio Cipriani's muzak for the
original Italian version of Baron Blood deserved to be replaced by Les Baxter's more eerie, orchestral
score when AIP initially released that film in North America.