horror soundtracks

Yeah I should have said, remarkable that the stereo elements even survive when so much stuff from that era exists only as mono mixdowns...

holy shit! alan howarth performing tonight in brooklyn

https://www.facebook.com/events/594667857258551/

Fabio frizzi tonight in London too.

Frizzi show was at least partly awesome, if you ignored the ballads anyway.

death waltz putting out some carpenter stuff on cassette - bummed that the assault on precinct 13 is already sold out

http://experimedia.net/index.php?main_page=index&typefilter=record_company&record_company_id=1209

Just got the expanded 2cd of the fog this week as it happens. Disc 2 is amazing. Also Alan howarths rerecording of Assault On... which is gorgeous.

Good news, De Wolfe's CD of Paul Ferris' WITCHFINDER GENERAL score got listed again and this time it actually came out and people have it! Only on Amazon UK so far. Hurray!

oooOOOOooooo!

It's a really good listen in a Greensleeves + classic Hammer music mode. Not many scores I can think of that inhabit this specific crossroads.

Important update for LL and other eMusic members-- Witchfinder General is on there now for 6.99! (Though I hear the booklet notes are really great but still tbh I'm prob gonna go with the download).

Been HUNTING this, I even contacted Joel Martin via an acquaintance to see what was up.

Vinyl release confirmed? as it was going to be a limited release a few weeks after the CD

IDK about vinyl but people have definitely received their copies of the CD.

Fearless Vampire Killers aka Dance Of The Vampires vinyl / CD package is out now :

http://seriesaphonos.bigcartel.com/product/sa04-krzysztof-komeda-dance-of-the-vampires-aka-the-fearless-vampire-killers-pre-order

idk if a field in england counts as horror but the soundtrack is top notch and it's pretty/scary
who is jim williams?

also the cover is a+
http://www.6dft.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/afie.jpeg

I had the same reaction to that movie as I do with some horror movies, so

I need to see field in ennngggland

Is j williams the same guy who did the soundtracks to sightseers and kill list? Those were nice cues mixed in with selections from the kosmische songbook.

i have no idea -- i couldn't find anything else about him aside from this sdtk, which is REALLY GOOD -- it has a tiny bit of the western vibe like Richard Thompson's Grizzly Man sdtk + PV on Herzog (mostly the latter + a little Upstream Color so basically it sounds like a top notch Herzog movie)

also the emusic version doesn't have a 48 min track that's available on amazon, so i have no idea what's up with that
but mostly it was a great movie and the music was increíble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6AL4BO_0tw

Sightseers used actual vuh and Harmonia tracks along with original cues, I think director Ben whatshisname is a krauty England's-Hidden-Reverse-y fellow

Frizzi back at the Barbican for Halloween:

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=16612

I'll definitely be going, having missed him last year.

I was going to bump this thread the other day to state for the record what an unmitigated masterpiece Henry Mancini's score for Lifeforce is.

The OST to "The Haunting Of Julia" is dusty, synthy awesomeness

i really feel like there should be a search and destroy devoted to death waltz/mondo and other similar horror soundtrack reissuers. there are so many of them and they sound so good thanks to the hyperbolic dusty groove style blurbs that inevitably are on the packaging. like i know a goblin soundtrack is a good bet, or the steve moore soundtrack to the guest, or john carpenter and tangerine dream.

anyway it could probably live here too and i'm sure a close reading of this thread would provide the answers i am hoping for.

My top Death Waltz releases, strictly based on the awesomeness of the music (roughly in order):

Halloween III
City of the Living Dead
A Field in England
Room 237
Maniac
Moon

Loving this mix by Terence Hannum of Locrian fame. 2014 one also has some nice underheard stuff (2013 his inaugural mix is mostly justifiably famous stuff).

http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/noise/bcpnews-check-out-some-spooky-sounds-from-terence-hannums-horror-movie-music-podcast-dead-air-20151007-htmlstory.html

Tangerine Dream's score for THE KEEP is a masterpiece. I love the cut " Stealing the Silver Cross". Excellent work on NEAR DARK, too

lolling: https://vine.co/v/edeuY27tLlH

There is also waxworks vinyl issue of Brian Gascoigne's score to Phase IV. Its first issue in any form (but la la land will put out a cd version soon). BBC Radiophonic style electroacoustic menace by the future arranger of Scott Walker's Tilt.

Just my annual reminder to everyone that Christopher Young's score to A Nightmare On Elm Street 2 remains the best horror soundtrack of the past 30 years IMO

There is a new box set of all the NOES scores but since there is nothing else remotely in Young's league in there, one is probably still best served by the long standing release that combines 1 and 2 on a CD.

Creature Features & Intrada pay tribute to Walt Disney's 1983 adaptation of Ray Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES!

We're proud to host an unprecedented symposium celebrating Intrada's brand new CD release of composer Georges Delerue's chilling rejected score. This legendary original music was unheard outside of one fateful test screening, replaced with a new score by the late James Horner.

Join film music journalist Tim Greiving of NPR and The Los Angeles Times as we revisit the film's complicated production with rare footage and behind-the-scenes photos -- plus a panel discussion with Colette Delerue, editor Axel Hubert, film music agent Richard Kraft, soundtrack producer Douglass Fake, and other guests to be added.

Admission is FREE with purchase of the new CD. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.

Never seen the film and never knew about there being different soundtracks

I wish to GAWD I could go to that event. The unused Delerue score is one of the finest film scores I've ever heard (even in, until now, bootleg quality) and to hear it mastered from first generation elements is going to be amazing. Intrada's CD comes out on Tuesday the 8th.

Delerue's score stands apart from his body of work, much darker and stranger than anything else by him.

The film is sorta misbegotten, sure, but still well worth seeing, with doses of real magic. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it RAG.

Anyway, if ppl want a sublime and hella atmospheric horror scoring masterpiece order this from Intrada on Tuesday.

I hope they record the symposium thingy for youtube...

Can't see any shop listings of the new CD issue or on the Intrada site.

They don't put things up until official release day I think

http://www.avclub.com/article/take-exclusive-look-scored-death-new-book-intervie-239745

Hmm. Tentatively interested. Would be more psyched if the guy seemed less focused on the usual goblin carpenter frizzi area, I mean there has been so much incredible horro work done by composers who aren't necessarily 'horror film composers'

Saw F2F (Frizzi to Fulci? Fulci to Frizzi? I can't remember) -- basically Fabio Frizzi + a 6-person band -- playing the score to The Beyond with the movie at a huge old theater packed to the gills with horror soundtrack fanatics. There was a lot of clapping, yelling, horns-throwing and they played three encores iirc, including selections from City of the Living Dead and Zombi. It was awesome! So glad I went. My only complaint was that the drums were a little bit too quiet for my liking but that could be because I am deaf or I'm just accustomed to much louder music.

The crowd was very patient and polite while Frizzi played a new (I think he said it was new?) somewhat limp cpuntry rock song too. That's one of the best things about horror soundtracks, like Carrie -- there are cheesy song-type songs mixed in with the horror-y tracks. Gives the best tracks that extra punch!

See also the Halloween song interrupting the magnificence of the Halloween III soundtrack

oops above that was supposed to say country, not cpuntry, lol

that sounds like an awesome gig!

i am also a fan of the totally conventional FM country tune interrupting a hair-raising horror OST, said tune generally coming from the jukebox in the roadside greasy spoon as the local sheriff hears something faintly disturbing from a local and just before we cut to a POV from the bushes

Just came across this top 100 list. As much as I can't endorse any ranking that doesn't put Goldsmith's Poltergeist score in the top 5 or 10, much less barely squeaking into the top 100, this is a compelling ranking.

http://www.factmag.com/2014/10/28/the-100-greatest-horror-soundtracks/

(Oh, also, Waxwork just did a third pressing of the Creepshow vinyl.)

yeah that list is kind of sheltered and way too coolness-oriented. i'm sorry but some of the greatest horror soundtracks of all time are from films that are legit embarrassing. everything on that list is either arty-hip or mondo-hip.

Seems like they admit some of the films are awful?

Glad to see that Libra's Shock really does have an audience. I've seen it on a few lists now and it's well deserved.

The biggest gaps to me is the lack of Hammer/Amicus/Tigon and no silent films. It's understandable people haven't got a hold of many Japanese soundtracks but when I was binging Samurai horror there was a lot of interesting stuff.

One net gain, I hadn't realized just how good The Entity score was until just now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNHelS21hhE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlgI3OvlQ80
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ANkMcqr4E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO42Nf3qENM

So hey, does anyone want a Bandcamp code for Jonathan Snipes' soundtrack for Starry Eyes? Guy who did Room 237, if you enjoyed that; I picked up a copy of the Starry Eyes score and got two Bandcamp cards by mistake. I can't guarantee the second one works, but if anyone wants it just email me

worth mentioning how incredible the MANDY soundtrack is
so loud, so good

in my top 20 this year