horror soundtracks

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

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

also prob one of the most dynamic records i own, parts of it scare the shit out of me even at low volume

Johannsson was extremely good at spooky tunes, i think the foreboding music throughout Sicario for example basically made that film twice as good as it was. It works as a horror score.

Can't wait to listen, Arrival was my favorite score of its year

oh man this is great

what a frickin' loss

Hints teased on the Intrada Records forum are making it look as if Jerry Goldsmith’s score for The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) is gonna get released for the first time ever next week. If so, a massive massive occasion - even on the shitty bootlegs that have been around it’s clearly a total high water mark - gorgeous swooning romantic writing melted together with aggressive modular synth utterances. Super excited!!!

September's nearly here, which means I'm close to putting all my soundtrack discs in the car again.

This'll be a new one this year:

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.11965/.f?sc=13&category=22848

Ha I was going to say GHOST STORY was the release of the season. Sarde’s masterpiece imo and one of the best shivery/exquisite horror scores of all time

That one too!

Tempting…

https://waxworkrecords.com/collections/all/products/hausu

!!

picked this one up a few years ago.
listening to it is an intense experience.
probably more so than watching the actual film.

https://www.discogs.com/release/5070915-Roque-Ba%C3%B1os-Evil-Dead-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack

A horror soundtrack comp technically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-fzmlECAI

Oops. Meant to post the whole playlist.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nF9L0bIv4Tu6CsNLNmh_WhyEU_nga_P6Y

Ichi The Killer OST

by Karera Musication (aka classic-era The Boredoms w/o EYE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ncfYt5F2dM