I don\'t Damien…The first minute or two of \"Tubular Bells\" is used in The Exorcist only during the scene where Chris is walking home from the movie set on Halloween, then again during the final credits…At that length, the piece sounds great…But to actually sit through the ENTIRE piece that takes up an entire album side on Mike Oldfield\'s original vinyl LP, which I own, I think it gets rather monotonous…Oldfield isn\'t a film composer, and although I do agree with Friedkin that Lalo Shifrin\'s score originally presented to him \"didn\'t fit\" The Exorcist (although it was perfect for \"The Amityville Horror\"), I\'m glad that they didn\'t use the entire \"Tubular\" piece in Exorcist…It would have just bogged things down.

I majored in Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and although I\'ve only scored some minor independent stuff, I still think I have a pretty good idea of how to optimally use (or not use) music to manipulate the emotional girth of a film.

As far as horror films go, I could probably ramble off half a million excellent scores…But most recently, I think my buddy Christopher Young\'s score for \"The Exorcism of Emily Rose\" is one of the best I\'ve ever heard…I hated the movie (basically a PG-13 court drama), and Chris knows that I\'m rather jealous of his success (he went straight away to Los Angeles right after he got his credentials while I decided to move to the East Coast and live in the mountains, driving an hour to work everyday as a college music professor)…But, I would say his score for Emily Rose is the first thing to come off the top of my head as, at least, ONE of the best horror movie music scores of all time…

Again, Mike Oldfirld\'s \"Bells\" is great for the first few minutes, but IMHO, begins to ware thin after a while…

Barry

Post edited 3:24 PM – November 4, 2011 by pazuzupossessed

my favorite soundtrack, and The Exorcist to have a melodythatinspires fear you! well john carpenter halloween but I prefergreat soundtrack of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells!