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The film features very little music / sound design. If I had to take a quick guesstimation, it would probably be equal to a little less than the amount of music that was in the original Exorcist. Now to some fun facts.
During post-production, the studio wanted to reject Barry's music in favor of a new score written by Christopher Young. I have personally spoken with Chris about this as he told me that he was hired to replace Barry's score. However, each week that followed, the studio would call him to inform him they would not be needing music for specific scenes, which ultimately ended in him not scoring the film after all. While Chris did in fact write around 20 - 25 minutes of score, it was never recorded and sits in a box somewhere in storage.
Blatty fought the studio to keep Barry as the original composer and to keep his score. What appears to have happened was a bad compromise and much of Barry's score may have been jettisoned. Because its very intentional music for a very small select number of scenes and there are plenty of scenes that could have had music / sound design under them.
Now that said, a few years back, when I started building a music portfolio to obtain professional scoring gigs, I started a series of my own albums called Horror Re-Scored in which I re-score my favorite horror movies. The Exorcist 3 was the second album I did as it had little to no music, had tons of greet dialogue scenes that proved challenging to score around and was my dedication to Christopher Young and Barry. I scored the entire movie with music that was a hybrid of Barry's styles (no experimental vocals) and Young's styles at that time. Lots of transparent writing, drones and detuned bells. I did not use Tubular Bells at all but came up with something that was in the same arena as that.
If interested, check it out here:
https://disgruntledmedia.net/album/2881652/horror-re-scored-2
Synced to picture examples here:
https://youtu.be/2H4x2Qfl5NM?si=tqbqyM4CUaM_AT0Z
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I'll give it a listen because Barry De Vorzon. I saw the movie but don't remember anything about it because it was so boring. Even the movie it was paired with (the remake of The Night Of The Living Dead) was better... apologies to fans of the movie.
It's an absolutely fantastic movie
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May 19, 2024 - 7:32 PM
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GoblinScore
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The film features very little music / sound design. If I had to take a quick guesstimation, it would probably be equal to a little less than the amount of music that was in the original Exorcist. Now to some fun facts.
During post-production, the studio wanted to reject Barry's music in favor of a new score written by Christopher Young. I have personally spoken with Chris about this as he told me that he was hired to replace Barry's score. However, each week that followed, the studio would call him to inform him they would not be needing music for specific scenes, which ultimately ended in him not scoring the film after all. While Chris did in fact write around 20 - 25 minutes of score, it was never recorded and sits in a box somewhere in storage.
Blatty fought the studio to keep Barry as the original composer and to keep his score. What appears to have happened was a bad compromise and much of Barry's score may have been jettisoned. Because its very intentional music for a very small select number of scenes and there are plenty of scenes that could have had music / sound design under them.
Now that said, a few years back, when I started building a music portfolio to obtain professional scoring gigs, I started a series of my own albums called Horror Re-Scored in which I re-score my favorite horror movies. The Exorcist 3 was the second album I did as it had little to no music, had tons of greet dialogue scenes that proved challenging to score around and was my dedication to Christopher Young and Barry. I scored the entire movie with music that was a hybrid of Barry's styles (no experimental vocals) and Young's styles at that time. Lots of transparent writing, drones and detuned bells. I did not use Tubular Bells at all but came up with something that was in the same arena as that.
If interested, check it out here:
https://disgruntledmedia.net/album/2881652/horror-re-scored-2
Synced to picture examples here:
https://youtu.be/2H4x2Qfl5NM?si=tqbqyM4CUaM_AT0Z
Thank you for the info D4D! Great stuff indeed, I did not know the story of Young's involvement. Eager to hear how this turned out.
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