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Yeah, I am totally buying this!
The cue where Kane is at the front door with Steven, and Diane is having visions of Kane's past still make me shutter.
Yes indeed. This is a must have. Thanks Bruce. Julian Beck was just perfection for casting. The malevolence was breathtaking.
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The ring on the soundtrack isn't even the same ring as the phone in the movie. Just my opinion/vote of course.
The ring effect was something Goldsmith added to the cue for the original LP. He probably wrote it that way initially, then decided it was too off-the-wall for the film. Apparently it was recorded both ways. Another "steel bowls" controversy.
It was only recorded one way - without the effect. The film has one kind of ring, put in in post-production, the album had its toy ring added in the mix that was originally done for the first release - but it's not on the original mix-downs.
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Aside from the brilliant Goldsmith score, POLTERGEIST II had one other really creepy element: the casting of Julian Beck as the leader of the devil-worshiping cult.
The very look of this man was just creepy, with hollow eyes, sunken cheeks, and, as I recall, prominent teeth.
Interesting, because Beck had been the founder of the Living Theatre, an avant-garde environmentalist troupe in the late 60's, whose specialty was mostly chaotic "happening"-type performances, which even contained, for the time, radical nudity. Their most well-known show was called "Paradise Now."
I remember seeing some of them, and, presumably, Beck, in the fall of 1968, when I attended the takeover of the Student Union at M.I.T. in Boston, at the same time that The Living Theatre was there, giving one of their performances. At the time, it was hard to tell which was wilder, what was going on in the auditorium, or upstairs with the politicos.
Those were interesting times.
Another winner, Bruce the K!
Will definitely order this one!
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The very look of this man was just creepy, with hollow eyes, sunken cheeks, and, as I recall, prominent teeth.
He *was* dying from cancer as this film was being shot, you know.
I think he kinda always looked like that, though.
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Roger at Intrada has chimed in:
"I never picked up the Varese because I thought our expanded version was fine (it's never been my favorite score...but yes Goldsmith's program for our original release was crazy. Even with the 30 minute AFM restriction, he choose to avoid any of the action music!). The too hot doesn't surprise me, as Varese has been pumping the levels for a while. The RUNAWAY deluxe addition is really hot too...I prefer the sound of their first release. I just didn't realize they were doing this going back so far. Am I reading right that this new release is from the analog masters? Previous releases were from the digital masters (I wonder if Varese forgot to return them to MGM!). Although 1/2" have pretty good sound, if I'm interpreting the source right. Always a good score to keep in print especially for those that wanted everything."
http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5734&p=65367#p65367
I was wondering if perhaps Bruce chose to use the analogue masters because they had better sound (this was the mid-80s, after all). I remember that Lukas chose to use the analogue masters instead of the digital ones for most of the FSM Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan...
I suspect the Kritzerland will totally eclipse sound-wise all of the previous releases taken from the digital tapes.
Yavar
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