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Nov 18, 2016 - 5:42 AM
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Graham Watt
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Well I can't pass up this opportunity to remind you all just how brilliantly inventive this score is, although I said it all here five years ago under my hard-to-decipher pseudonym. The original thread looks slightly bittersweet now due to the fact that Robert0, who started it, has since passed away, but it's nice that we can remember him and his always-positive attitude and enthusiasm through these old posts.
msmith - I'm sure audience reaction actually was like the way we hear it in your link, certainly in the midnight showings.
bobbengan - Totally with you in your love of those other Mellé scores. Just looking back over his filmography and checking out some YT links, I was going to add to your list by saying, "And this is great too...", but it would be a lengthy list indeed. It's a pity that the films Gil Mellé scored were very often sub-par or under-the-radar, but once you hear his style(s) it's immediately recognisable.
I couldn't find the Main Titles from THE SENTINEL on the Tube, to see how well everything interacts (music and visuals), but it's absolutely superb music on its own and in its own right, and much more than just standard horror-and-suspense clichés.
So there ya go. THE SENTINEL - Superb.
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From the July 28, 1976, issue of the Los Angeles Times:
John Williams, whose music provided much of the background tension in Jaws, will score the movie adaptation of Peter Benchley's second adventure novel, The Deep. Williams has also been signed by Universal to compose music for The Sentinel, a Michael Winner film shooting in New York City.
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Williams must have been annoyed when the score was accidentally credited to Gill Melle!
Gil Melle did indeed score Michael Winner's film of THE SENTINEL. John Williams was the first composer signed for it, but he had backed out due to a graphic scene which caused him to faint. When Winner got Melle, he asked, "You're not going to faint on us, are you Gil?"
From correspondence with this writer and interview with the composer, 2002.
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Wake me up if some enterprising label has the balls to someday release this absolutely spectacular score. All the effusive comments above would then be seen to be pretty much right, and not too exaggerated.
But I guess it will never happen. Never mind, cheer up. I'm gonna watch that nutty, creepy scarefest on DVD again, because it's eye-poppingly grotesque, and Mellé's score is pure batshit brilliance. Immense stuff.
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Wake me up if some enterprising label has the balls to someday release this absolutely spectacular score. All the effusive comments above would then be seen to be pretty much right, and not too exaggerated.
But I guess it will never happen. Never mind, cheer up. I'm gonna watch that nutty, creepy scarefest on DVD again, because it's eye-poppingly grotesque, and Mellé's score is pure batshit brilliance. Immense stuff.
It was announced as one of the upcoming titles that La La Land will be releasing from the Universal vaults.
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April 23, Stephen. Do pay attention.
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April 23, Stephen. Do pay attention.
Ah, Earthling humour. A difficult concept. 
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Hoping.for a repeat of the FORBIN experience!
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I skimmed through a copy of the film on Youtube (in Spanish). I had to give up. The film is just ... well, not something I'll be watching willingly. And the score has nice bits, but that's just it -- bits -- it kept going all over the place and then ending abruptly.
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