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     Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Does anybody know a good site for sound clips from horror films - either MP3s or .wav files? "Good evening, Clarice" is my usual message alert on my phone, but after sharing it with a fellow Dr Lecter groupie over Hogmanay and driving our hosts mad by texting each other from across the room just to hear his voice (again and again), I've decided I need new villain to alert me to incoming texts. I'm specifically searching for clips from CANDYMAN. I have a couple ("Be my victim." "It was always you, Helen." **swoon**), but not nearly enough. And that particular sexy-bloody-scary-romantic antihero has been on my mind lately. Last time I was near a piano I managed to pick out the theme, and it's also my wake-up alarm. But I need to hear him assure me that the pain will be exquisite. I just do. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.209.114 |
Do you know Donovan's version of the blues song 'Candyman'? Barker was playing on drug-related meanings of the term. This may be made clear in the film, I don't remember. Good film though. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.242.155 |
The story on which the movie is based, with the rather unimaginative title "The Forbidden," is one of the (if not the...?) very best of Clive Barker's work. Imho. The movie didn't leave much of an impression upon me, however... I barely remember it, and have not seen it since way back when it came out, nor the sequels... but maybe I should?... | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.186.25 |
I liked the story, loved the film, didn't care for the sequels. Philip Glass's score is a big part of what made it such a powerful movie, I think. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Yes, the score and Tony Todd's powerful presence. That voice... I liked the short story when I read it (years ago), and I thought the movie fleshed it out beautifully. Never saw any of the sequels. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Love the film, and as Huw says, the score is beautiful (and haunting). I saw the first sequel - it was poor, but Todd was great in it (as he always is). | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.210 |
It's a marvellous marvellous film, beautifully put together and somehow managing to feel restrained when it isn't really at all. The music regularly gets a run through at Probert Towers, both on the stereo and on the piano. I saw the first sequel in an empty Bristol cinema and I nearly fell asleep. I haven't seen the third movie. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.4.162 |
Lord P - put some scenes of your plinking on Youtube, will you, old man? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.210 |
I'll try Tony. I do have a clip of me doing my Richard Clayderman act in a Manchester restaurant so I'll see what I can do | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.4.162 |
Candyman! Candyman! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
Glass has written stacks of film soundtracks - I love (and have!) lots of his music; one favourite was an opera he wrote based on Poe's "...Usher", performed at the Union Chapel in London many years back, but which unfortunately has never seen the light of day on vinyl or CD as far as I'm aware. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
Clayderman! Clayderman! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
...although it's a tad annoying that the "Music of Candyman" CD doesn't contain the first film's title music. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.54 |
Yes. It kind of does but it misses out the bass line for some reason. I'm a bit suspicious of the whole album which sounds like a re-recording to me. And the liner notes are unbelievably pompous. And they spell Clive Barker's name wrong. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.248.30 |
Which isn't easy to do. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
It's spelled correctly in my version. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
Glass was in Denmark performing Quanasqtsi live with the film playing in the background- very bloody excellent. Afterwards I remember asking him when he was going to release the Candyman soundtrack. 'Soon' he said and years and years passed. It does a great deal for the film- like Chris Young's score for Hellraiser 2. I barely made it through Candyman 2 and have not seen the rest... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
I saw Glass and his ensemble performing that as well as the score for Powaqqatsi - about fifteen years back, I think... |