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I love this cheesey film! And Lalo's score! Catchy, melodic, and seventies' cool.
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I saw "Rollercoaster" during its original release in "Sensurround"! A blast. I loved it then, and still do. The main theme (carousel sounding music) was, if I remember correctly, based on an unfinished something or other by Bernard Herrmann. Does anyone else remember this?
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He earlier (1966) wrote a rather similar melody for a first season episode of mission impossible: Old man out. This one always comes to my kind when i hear the theme from rollercoaster...
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Sep 3, 2012 - 1:55 PM
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Grecchus
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The film was just so much fun from start to finish. The bomb scenes were all very intense and expertly edited and yet the film also didn't take itself too seriously - I also appreciate the ambiguity of Bottom's character - the less we know, the scarier he is . And I love how abruptly the movie ends. No epilogue, no foot dragging, just - Bam! - roll credits. They don't make 'em like that anymore. Yes, it's a fun film. The coaster and nut 'suspense' theme I well remember. The most memorable part, though, is right at the start of the movie when we meet George Segal, aka Harry, submitting himself to electric shock treatment. He's sitting there with a smouldering cigarette perched continuously between his lips, muttering in a disinterested tone the odd "aoow" in tune with the buzzing of the machine that's doing it's darndest to convince him to kick the habit, but getting visibly nowhere fast. Even when the shocks intensify, that cig is stayin' put.
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