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August 17, 2010 at 8:21 AM #13623
DamienKarras
ParticipantMine is definitely The Exorcist because Tubular Bells is a brilliant song. I remember watching the Halloween movies when I was younger and being creeped out by the music, it’s very eerie and made me uneasy (which I’m sure it was intended to do). Other than that I don’t pay much attention to the score in movies, unless of course they’re musicals. 😛
September 8, 2010 at 7:03 AM #23063TheTunnel
ParticipantI 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
September 9, 2010 at 11:55 PM #23074jguthrie
ParticipantMorricone’s The Thing
February 9, 2011 at 12:15 AM #24436kokumo
ParticipantJohn Carpenter's unforgettable theme to “Halloween”, “Godzilla's March” from the legendary Toho series (performed especialy well in “Invasion of the Astros”), the beautiful score used in “The Omen” & I'm fond of the reworked musical score for Bela Lugosi's “Dracula” & The music from “Candyman to name a few
February 10, 2011 at 12:46 PM #24445Jagged
ParticipantJaws. An outstanding suite of music.
March 10, 2011 at 5:22 AM #24544fatherbowdern
ParticipantCarrie by Pino Donaggio or Psycho by Bernard Hermann. It's sort of toss up for me. (Yes, I agree that Pino copied a lot of Hermann's elements for strings, but Pino mapped out the film with music that keeps us involved from beginning to end.)
Father Bowdern
March 10, 2011 at 5:25 AM #24545fatherbowdern
ParticipantJagged said:
Jaws. An outstanding suite of music.
Jaws is also great … the music was the shark … the shark was the music! Brilliant to never see the “beast” yet being scared just hearing it through music.
Father Bowdern
September 13, 2011 at 11:40 PM #25630Steve Dunlap
ParticipantAlthough I don't consider this to be a “horror” movie (It's definitely more of a love movie with horror themes), Wojchiek Kilar's score for the Francis Ford Copolla version of Bram Stoker's Dracula is a beautiful piece of work.
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Jerry Goldsmith's score for ALIEN is also a winner. 🙂
November 4, 2011 at 1:35 PM #25808dreamdemon
Participanttheres been a few great ones,my favs are,the exorcist/halloween/jaws/phantasm/
November 4, 2011 at 3:24 PM #25811pazuzupossessed
Participantmy 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!
November 4, 2011 at 9:08 PM #25812epicwin123
ParticipantThe Exorcist has a wonderful soundtrack of course. Moments of complete silence and loud sound, really is a masterpiece! Christine has an interesting soundtrack too, it sounds very, chilling.
November 22, 2012 at 2:18 AM #26452ReganMacNeilfan
ParticipantI have yet to own The Exorcist soundtrack. 🙁 Hopefully soon I will. 🙂 But for now I will say Christine.
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