I think I already posted this, but it's the main theme from the recent remake The Uninvited (AKA A Tale of Two Sisters) and Christopher Young provided a very beautiful and melodic cue:
This is from an alternate soundtrack to the notorious cult Horror film Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) -- and the music is provided by Bardi Johannsson who is an Icelandic rock musician (and all-around renaissance man, practically). I don't know if many are familiar with this album, but it is absolutely fantastic and has some incredible, well-defined music with bold thematic material and a firm grasp on orchestral scoring.
P.S. Forgive the length of this piece, but it's entirely listenable all the way through.
As an example of the prowess of Christopher Gordon, I'll offer his score for the TV miniseries adapation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot. There's a lot of very haunting, but beautiful passages in this (many with the vocal help of Lisa Gerrard) but YouTube can only provide for me the main theme -- though it is very nice and helps present the idea of Gordon's superb compositional skills:
This one will be deceiving, as I find it to be very pretty but only in it's beginning is it truly so as it lures you in with a simply music box jingle before entering into a darker, slightly menacing sound. This is from the rejected score to Hellraiser by the Industrial rock band Coil...
The piece that I want to post from Ravenous is unfortunately difficult to track down on YouTube (for those who own it, I wanted "Trek to the Cave") but Damon Albarn's contribution of "Boyd's Journey" will provide an equally appealing taste of that score.
I absolutely love this score to the British Horror masterpiece The Descent. It's by David Julyan and in some parts it serves as a good companion piece to Morricone's score for The Thing. But, like here, there are some moments of peaceful tranquility (which perfectly represents the heroine from the film)...
This album for The Ring and the Ring Two is hard to decipher since Zimmer and co. presents all of the major material composed for the film in suite variations (though I really prefer this method when listening to a score). But in this track, "I'll Follow Your Voice," it covers a lot of the more emotional and familial thematic material within the score:
In 28 Days Later (and 28 Weeks Later) John Murphy created -- in my mind -- one of the most memorable and original Horror film scores from the past decade. And despite the subject material Murphy still found solitude to provide such truly lovely cues like this variation on the Christian hymn "Abide With Me:"
As well as a unique version of "Ave Maria" by J.S. Bach...
And from the 28 Weeks Later soundtrack (though this song appears in a variation in 28 Days...) "Kiss of Death" is a devastating piece of beauty...
I was thinking of doing that recently but, something i heard on the news happened with You tube last weekend and i have been having a bit of trouble with it since, got to look into it soon.
Let's look at other nice Les Baxter genre scores, Did a nice theme for the scifi pic The invisble boy-57-Master of the world-61- Les gave us a few very pretty themes including the poignant main theme,Tales of terror-63- had a great fine end theme played to perfection, which was a combo of two lovlely melodies, Haunting melodic end theme from the man with the x ray eyes-63-the dunwich horror-70 had a very melodic like hymm march,, cry of the banshee-70- had it's tender moments etc etc etc
Let's look at other nice Les Baxter genre scores, Did a nice theme for the scifi pic The invisble boy-57-Master of the world-61- Les gave us a few very pretty themes including the poignant main theme,Tales of terror-63- had a great fine end theme played to perfection, which was a combo of two lovlely melodies, Haunting melodic end theme from the man with the x ray eyes-63-the dunwich horror-70 had a very melodic like hymm march,, cry of the banshee-70- had it's tender moments etc etc etc
