This score was met with little fanfare, and was a short Varese album clocking it at just under 34 minutes. It was a few years after the Scream trilogy, and around the time I was discovering Marco Beltrami (Mimic, Blade 2, and Hellboy being my favorites). The full score is close to 1 hr 40 min, leaving over a full hour of music unreleased. I would say this highly underrated score deserves the Deluxe treatment (along with Hellboy), as it still stands as one of Beltrami's best action and horror scores.
There's just something about the raw power of the orchestra, heard particularly in "International House of Paincakes" (ha ha), "Nomack Snacks," and "Family Feud" that sends chills down my spine very time I hear them! Despite the absolute ridiculousness of the film, you can tell that Beltrami was firing on all cylinders just by listening to the score.
I highly encourage Beltrami fans to check this one out if they missed it, and fingers are still crossed for an expanded/complete release!
SCREAM 2 is easily my favorite from that series. I can understand the studio(?) falling in love with their Broken Arrow temp track, but Beltrami's own imitation of Dewey's Theme is just as good! It seems like it would have been counterproductive to try to get the rights to Zimmer's score instead of just using Beltrami's alarmingly close imitation...
Must be getting closer to October, since I've been in a horror-music mode as of late
I love the Blade 2 album. It's one of my favorite Beltrami titles, a great action score.
Me too, probably the Beltrami score I listen to most often, possibly also because of its short duration, which makes it a perfect listen. Nomack the Knife is one of my favorite Beltrami tracks, along with Evildoers (Hellboy), Elliot & Heat Dream (Flight of the Phoenix), and Ben Takes the Stage/Dan's Burden (3:10 to Yuma).
Excellent score and a great album (though i would definitely welcome an expanded release). When i first started listening to his music, this and I, Robot were played on a loop.
Bumping this up as I give it another listen as we get closer to Halloween. This and Mimic have some of my all-time favorite horror scoring. The orchestrations in this are incredible!!
With Varese doing so many awesome new deluxe release (been loving The Crow this weekend!) this is one I desperately want to see released. While my anticipation of new Beltrami scores has waned in the years since, I will still absolutely go back and listen to his soundtracks which first caught my attention. And this is still my favorite. And I still spin it almost 20 years after I first bough it.
Deserves a special treatment, also is really curious, Beltrami's comic book approaches are enteraily interesting, because aren't the same other superhero/comic book scores out there.
