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I just saw this 1986 film for the first time. Quite good, but maybe a bit overrated?
Mark Isham's electronic score is moody and ambient. The parts I liked the most were the chase themes which were more up-tempo.
Did Isham ever write anything else like this?
Anyone here who owns the CD?
Steve Jablonsky scored the 2007 re-make. How is that score compared to the original?
Also, there is a film called The Hitcher II from 2003, scored by Joe Kraemer. Any info on film or score?
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Aug 21, 2008 - 3:18 PM
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MikeP
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I just saw this 1986 film for the first time. Quite good, but maybe a bit overrated?
Mark Isham's electronic score is moody and ambient. The parts I liked the most were the chase themes which were more up-tempo.
Did Isham ever write anything else like this?
Anyone here who owns the CD?
Steve Jablonsky scored the 2007 re-make. How is that score compared to the original?
Also, there is a film called The Hitcher II from 2003, scored by Joe Kraemer. Any info on film or score?
I've not heard anything quite like it from Isham, except parts of Never Cry Wolf. The CD is a good, moody listen, but not as interesting as a Tangerine Dream score, although Isham seems to be reaching for that feel here. I'd hoped that at some point he might write another Hitcher-type score, but nothing I'd heard from him since comes close.
Have not seen the remake nor heard the score.
The Hitcher 2 got mixed reviews, but again, have never dared to check out the film or score.
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I've got the Silva release of the score, which I quite like, though I haven't played it in a while. I think Isham's FIRE IN THE SKY makes a good double-bill with it.
In 2003 Isham also scored another road-based thriller called HIGHWAYMEN for the director of THE HITCHER. I think it ended up going straight to DVD and Isham's score went unreleased. I haven't seen the whole thing, so I don't really know how that score would rank against THE HITCHHER.
Interesting that Isham teamed up again with Robert Harmon in 2003.
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I just saw this 1986 film for the first time. Quite good, but maybe a bit overrated?
Mark Isham's electronic score is moody and ambient. The parts I liked the most were the chase themes which were more up-tempo.
Did Isham ever write anything else like this?
Anyone here who owns the CD?
Steve Jablonsky scored the 2007 re-make. How is that score compared to the original?
Also, there is a film called The Hitcher II from 2003, scored by Joe Kraemer. Any info on film or score?
I've not heard anything quite like it from Isham, except parts of Never Cry Wolf. The CD is a good, moody listen, but not as interesting as a Tangerine Dream score, although Isham seems to be reaching for that feel here. I'd hoped that at some point he might write another Hitcher-type score, but nothing I'd heard from him since comes close.
Have not seen the remake nor heard the score.
The Hitcher 2 got mixed reviews, but again, have never dared to check out the film or score.
I have a feeling this is a score Isham may not be thinking of every day. Maybe he felt the music got dated pretty quick. Interestingly, some of the filmmakers, Feldman/Meeker and Eric Red, went on to work with TD in 1987 on Near Dark.
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I love Isham's score to the original Hitcher. Especially that opening sequence that masterfully invokes such a profound lonliness as Howell's character drives across the vast desert wasteland. Beautiful. It was one of my holy grail scores for a while and when it finally came out (ten[?] years after the initial release of the film) I was LOVING it.
Didn't see the remake or the sequel. I like Jablonsky, so I would definitely be curious to hear the score for his film.
Joe
The score got a release in 1992 I guess.
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I think The Hitcher is Ishams best score and it evokes many emotions during its playtime...
The first track (Headlights)on the isolated road driving in the rain is very haunting. The second track (The Chosen) is very playful and then becomes very nasty in its tones when the Hitcher reveals himself for Halsey and Isham plays out well here.
The tracks "Dogs" and "Cars and Helicopters" are my favourites on the cd and especially the latter as the big chase theme. In the remake they changed this part with a Nine Inch Nails song "Closer" and it wasnt near as cool as in the original. This movie with its acting, directing, photography and especially the music makes it one of the best thriller/roadmovies ever.
The sequel to the original is plain awful and the music in it is forgetable (if there was any?=)
About Jablonskys score for the remake, its sorry to say "just there" and nothing you will remember (except maybe for the last cue in that movie)
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Nov 17, 2021 - 5:11 AM
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Julian K
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PR from Silva Screen:
SILVA SCREEN RECORDS PRESENTS
The Hitcher
On 3rd December Silva Screen Records will release the horror soundtrack The Hitcher, composer Mark Isham's genre redefining electronic score, commercially unavailable for close to 30 years.
Asked by the producers to compose a copycat score of John Williams' Jaws, Isham bravely produced the opposite. He steered clear from genre defining sharp orchestral motifs and stabbing dissonances, and instead immersed himself in 80s cutting edge electronics and samples. The result was an emotionally cold and beautiful score, an audio landscape depicting evil and impending doom, the dust and fog of a lonely desert road. With its industrial beats, ambient synth washes and spaced Jazzy motifs, the score was on the forefront of a new genre in horror music scoring and has since achieved cult status.
AllMusic.com comments: “Even this early in his Hollywood career, Isham exhibits an uncommonly acute grasp of mood and melancholy, and despite the artistry of cues like "Headlights" and "Dream," the new age-inspired synth washes also boast an alien foreboding well-matched to the demands of the onscreen narrative.”
Mark Isham gives insight into his scoring process: “Technically the music business was in a crossroads and new instruments and new instrument technologies were appearing every day. I availed myself of this “new” technology of “sampling” and brought in two drummers who played only originally sampled drums. I was still using my early system of a Prophet 5, an Oberheim 4 voice and my ARP 2600. To this I added this new keyboard, a Prophet 2000 (sampler). This was the “band”!
The Hitcher, the chilling road thriller, was released in 1986 and starred Rutger Hauer as a murderous hitchhiker in a relentless pursuit of a young motorist, C. Thomas Howell. Critically maligned at the time, over the years the film has built up a cult following and has spawned a sequel and a remake.
Release date: 3rd December 2021
CD: SILCD1651
Digital album: SILED1651
Tracklisting:
1. Headlights - Main Title
2. The Chosen
3. Keys
4. Dust and Gasoline
5. Dream
6. Dogs
7. Suicide
8. Gun
9. Cars and Helicopters
10. Motel
11. Transfer
12. Guards and Cards
13. Endgame
14. The Hitcher - End Credits
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