Sounds great. I've never heard of the film, nor have I ever heard a note from the composers. I'm loving this cue, though!
You've never heard a Frontiere score?
THE STUNT MAN. You're welcome.
I love the Stunt Man but its the only score of his Ive ever heard. Enjoying the sample on YT sounds like a winner! Sadly it appears he didn't do many films scores.
Is the Kamen a wholly orchestral score, or does it have a lot of synth?[/endquote
I remember it being mostly orchestral suspense, not a pop 80s score at all - definitely in the Die Hard neighborhood of writing. I'm dying to hear the unused material - in the film Kamen work is really sidelined, but works great when it does show up.
Yeah. As Sean says, what's left in the film is mainly dark suspense cues, although I recall a slightly heraldic piece for a garage worker who looks like Thor (a young D'onofrio if my memory serves me). I hope the missing or unused stuff is pretty great. Not sure I would buy it based on what's in the film.
I'd be willing to bet the second one is Michael Kamen's ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING. Kamen was specializing in action around that time, especially the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard series, and I remember hearing from a friend who worked on the film that a lot of reworking of the score had been done after Kamen was finished.
And the pivotal song would be the impromptu blues number that Shue and the kids perform.
Plus, there's this.
I'd buy a Babysitting CD, and not just because the booklet would be filled with pictures of Elisabeth Shue.
