Scream The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Jablonsky) The Mephisto Waltz Halloween 1, 2, 4 The Fog Friday the 13th (Manfredini) A Nightmare on Elm Street (Bernstein) The Grudge The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Freejack, I love those screeching violins with pitch effect. Silver Bullet scared me a lot when I was a kid (it's one of those I shouldn't have been allowed to stay up for ). The score is equally Beautiful with its flute theme as it is menacing with its synths and strings. Great pick.
I can't listen to Lalo Schifrin's rejected EXORCIST tracks.
I really like the old-fashioned score to Ti West's THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL; there's a CD pairing it with something else but I never listen to the second score.
Having recently seen INSIDIOUS, I don't know that I'd want a score CD: it's too terrifying and atonal for me.
Really, I have trouble with the best horror scores, because the horror score that actually horrify are few and far between and, frankly, I'm rarely interested in listening to them. I prefer more full-blooded, "gothic" horror, but I tend to listen to that more as adventure music than for any horrific purposes!
Really, I have trouble with the best horror scores, because the horror score that actually horrify are few and far between and, frankly, I'm rarely interested in listening to them. I prefer more full-blooded, "gothic" horror, but I tend to listen to that more as adventure music than for any horrific purposes!
Yes. I don't listen to horror scores to get scared, but simply because I love the dark soundscapes, wicked themes and intense musical moments. Horror scores offer such a diverse range of music. It has music that builds up and can unleash great power, or lure you in with a haunting theme, be menacing and calculated or caring and disorientating. All at the same time.
A good horror score to me is like experiencing a nightmare you love to revisit. Yes, I am still sober
His Cannibal Holocaust theme is wonderful. I can't imagine there has ever been a prettier theme to an uglier film. Not that I've seen the movie. But I'm just going out on a limb with that one based on the little visual evidence that I've seen.
Poltergeist The Haunting The Grudge The Grudge 2 The Excorcism of Emily Rose The Fog The Ring What Lies Beneath Signs Omen III: Final Conflict
Especially The Haunting is pleasant on the surface but extremely creepy underneath. Furthermore it´s perfectly composed. "Finally Home" alone is one of the best things Goldsmith ever wrote in his life with it´s highly intelligent harmonic layering, counterpoint, suspense building etc. There are three themes woven into it but it still manages to present itself as one coherent whole. Art.
We've been down this dark and creepy road before, but here we go:
Richard Band: RE-ANIMATOR Tyler Bates: DAWN OF THE DEAD Les Baxter: THE DUNWICH HORROR Marco Beltrami: MIMIC, THE OMEN, SCREAM Charles Bernstein: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET John Carpenter: HALLOWEEN, THE FOG John Debney: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER Pino Donaggio: CARRIE, THE HOWLING, PIRANHA Elliot Goldenthal: INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, PET SEMATARY Jerry Goldsmith: ALIEN, LINK, THE OMEN, POLTERGEIST, PSYCHO II, TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE Jeff Grace: THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL John Harrison: CREEPSHOW Bernard Herrmann: PSYCHO James Horner: ALIENS Steve Jablonsky: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Trevor Jones: ARACHNOPHOBIA Michael Kamen: THE DEAD ZONE Wojciech Kilar: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA Harry Manfredini: FRIDAY THE 13TH Nico Muhly: JOSHUA John Murphy: 28 WEEKS LATER, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT Riz Ortolani: CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST Ken Wannberg/Rick Wilkins/Howard Blake: THE CHANGELING Franz Waxman: THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN John Williams: THE FURY, JAWS Christopher Young: THE GRUDGE, HELLRAISER Hans Zimmer/Henning Lohner/Martin Tillman: THE RING
). The score is equally Beautiful with its flute theme as it is menacing with its synths and strings. Great pick. 
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