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Sep 29, 2007 - 8:16 AM
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Heath
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Dudley Simpson, the Australian composer, actually wrote all of the instrumental music heard in the film ie. the main and end titles featuring the creepy, quiet, log drum riff with organ, solo horn and contrabass clarinet. It's actually almost identical to an incidental cue he wrote for the Doctor Who story The Carnival Of Monsters.
The rest of Hell House's score, the electronic "tonalities", was the work of Derbyshire and Hodgson. A very effective soundtrack on the whole.
I don't know what the story is behind Simpson's involvement, but he was Doctor Who's resident composer at the time and he worked extensively with Hodgson on those scores. Perhaps he was returning a favour. Simpson's work on Hell House remains his only feature film work, AFAIK. As such, it's ironic that Simpson is not officially credited for it to this day (probably contractual or Musicians Union reasons).
Now you know.
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Never knew about this!
Just had a quick look at a really poor copy of the film on YT and there's no mistaking that low sound that Dudley did for many a Tom Baker episode. The tonalities meanwhile remind me of various labs in a Troughton story! The end titles aren't there. Shame as I'm a Pertwee fan and would've loved to hear the Carnival-like stuff lol. Will have to track a copy down now..
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