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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: Horror Strings     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Apr 21, 2005 - 6:19 PM     By:   Moonie   (Member) Whats some of your favorite cues in horror movies with strings? One that comes to mind for me is the Epilogue from The Fury. anyone else? sd other than Psycho, you cant touch that one.    Posted:   Apr 21, 2005 - 6:21 PM     By:   Jesse Hopkins   (Member) Red Dragon Not just strings, but has that horror strings sound throughout.    Posted:   Apr 21, 2005 - 6:55 PM     By:   BlanketyBlank   (Member) Though they weren't used to scare the crap out of me, rather for the more "warm" moments, I love the use of strings in POLTERGEIST.    Posted:   Apr 21, 2005 - 7:37 PM     By:   Thomas Pynchon   (Member) Elliot Goldenthal: Pet Sematary & Alien 3 The first sounds like a close cousin to psycho, the second like it destroyed a lot of violins in the process of recording it Jerry Goldsmith: Omen trilogy, Alien Very efficient use and no doubt a great inspiration for many composers to follow! Ennio Morricone: Exorcist II, Wolf There is only one composer whose spicato use is ingenius IMO! Chris Young: Hellraiser I&II, Dark Half Copycat, Fly II The strings are very dream-like, slithering and downright creepy at times Wojchiech Kilar: The Ninth Gate    Posted:   Apr 21, 2005 - 7:38 PM     By:   Filmscorecollecter   (Member) Dragonwyke -Alfred Newman The whole score with strings is great.    Posted:   Apr 21, 2005 - 9:46 PM     By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member) Psycho - the whole score.    Posted:   Apr 21, 2005 - 9:57 PM     By:   Benjamin Wright   (Member) For me it's THE SHINING; specifically the use of Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste (Third Movement). Bartok's contribution to Hollywood horror string writing is monumental in this regard.    Posted:   Apr 21, 2005 - 11:36 PM     By:   Cooper   (Member) Pino Donaggio's Carrie, especially effective in his "Bucket of Blood" cue. Really taut, suspenseful stuff. Donaggio could do strings, man...string 'em all along until the audience is like, totally strung out, dude. And that runny string effect--forgot what that's called--when the blood comes raining down on Carrie. And, hell, yes, when he hits those sustrained string chords when Carrie unleashes her wrath. Awesome. Feel the power...    Posted:   Apr 21, 2005 - 11:52 PM     By:   katco   (Member) James Bernard's "Dracula" theme.    Posted:   Apr 22, 2005 - 11:53 AM     By:   bedhead   (Member) Anything by Hans Salter/Frank Skinner. THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS and THE WOLF MAN come to mind, both on the same Marco Polo release, which was one of my first CD purchases and to this day my most frequently played disc. A must have for anyone who appreciates Golden Age. Thanks a thousand times plus, John and Bill!    Posted:   Apr 22, 2005 - 12:53 PM     By:   The Mutant   (Member) The Funhouse has got plenty of shrieking horror strings. Great little score.    Posted:   Apr 22, 2005 - 1:04 PM     By:   Rnelson   (Member) The Twilight Zone episode "The Invaders" by Goldsmith Psycho by Herrmann X-The Unknown and The Creeping Unknown by James Bernard    Posted:   Apr 22, 2005 - 1:24 PM     By:   Sir T.   (Member) Horror G-strings? I guess it depends on the girls who're wearing them.    Posted:   Apr 22, 2005 - 1:57 PM     By:   DeviantMan   (Member) BODY PARTS - Loek Dikker excellent score with plenty string passages and a singing saw. PET SEMATARY - Elliot Goldenthal strings to the final point of death ad nausium! COOL! ED WOOD - Howard Shore PULL THE STRING, PULL THE STRING... PULL THE STRING!!!!!    Posted:   Apr 23, 2005 - 6:18 PM     By:   LeHah   (Member) Goldenthal's Alien 3 Which one did I hate the most? Brian Tyler's Darkness Falls. YUCK!    Posted:   Apr 23, 2005 - 9:41 PM     By:   Hercule Platini   (Member) Can't believe no-one's mentioned Harry Manfredini's FRIDAY THE 13TH scores. You want shrieky strings, Harry's the man.    Posted:   Apr 24, 2005 - 7:49 PM     By:   Oblicno   (Member) Goldenthal's Final Fantasy has a nice bit of strings in it - Race through old new york i think it is called - might be mistaken though.    Posted:   Sep 7, 2014 - 3:25 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) I'm adding Schifrin's AMITYVILLE HORROR (1981) to this list. (And stretching the definition.... Newman's THE SNAKE PIT as well, because I think it is something of a horror film, and nobody wrote for strings like Newman.)    Posted:   Sep 7, 2014 - 3:45 PM     By:   bobbengan   (Member) BODY PARTS - Loek Dikker excellent score with plenty string passages and a singing saw. This one is, indeed, a chilling masterpiece.    Posted:   Sep 7, 2014 - 8:30 PM     By:   Tango Urilla   (Member) Ennio Morricone's "Despair" from The Thing. Roque Baños' "Natalie Hunting" from Evil Dead. Anything Goldenthal has done with strings horror-wise (Alien 3, Interview with the Vampire, Sphere, etc.) Good topic. Getting ready for Halloween? Can we do horror brass next?     General Discussion: Horror Strings    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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