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     Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.153.164.70 |
For fun I thought this new 'Themes' thread would compliment the 'Ultimate Movies' thread nicely. There are so many first rate horror/Sci-Fi theme tunes out there to choose from but I hope RCMB members can furnish me with a few more I haven't heard yet. For starters in no particular order: The Fog: (John Carpenter) just pips the, also great, Halloween theme for me. Pure electronic simplicity. Phantasm: (Don Coscarelli) Another Electro/Synth great. Perfectly suits the surreal narrative of the film. Zombie Flesh Eaters/City of the Living Dead/The Beyond: 3 Lucio Fulci masterpieces for the price of one. Each one has a theme positively dripping with atmosphere. The Omen: Arguably the scariest of them all? The room suddenly becomes a satanic pit of all consuming despair when this is played. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Bernard Herrmann's PSYCHO score is my all-time fave. As for more modern fare, I quite like the soundtrack to MARTYRS, by something called Seppuku Paradigm, which you can download for free here: http://seppukuparadigm.com/martyrs/index.html | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Thanks for that link, Chris... As for horror film soundtracks, I've always been partial to Morricone's work on Carpenter's The Thing. My absolute favourite movie soundtrack, however, is either Tomandandy's for Killing Zoe or Wang Chung's To Live and Die in L.A. | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.153.164.70 |
Thanks Chris! I'll have a wee listen to that now. Yes Zed! I love Morricone's theme for 'The Thing'. It conveys icy desolation and utter isolation with nothing but your own thoughts for company. | ||
| Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 188.28.236.5 |
Hermann's Vertigo is my favourite movie soundtrack by miles. I've wept watching the title sequence alone! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.62.126 |
Yes, Patrick. Very erotic music. Brilliant. The score of Ridley Scott's 1492 is remarkable. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.62.126 |
I rather like the bastardised Beethoven in Clockwork Orange, too. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.174.38.16 |
That'll be Walter Carlos (or Wendy as of a certain date in the 'seventies)... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Virtually anything by Morricone or Herrmann, but if I had to pick one by each: the themes to 'Once Upon A Time In America' & 'Taxi Driver'. Breathtakingly beautiful music that compliments the emotional impact of both films perfectly. As for horror soundtracks... probably 'Rosemary's Baby' or 'Twisted Nerve' (by that man again). | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.116.210 |
Elliot Goldenthal's ALIEN 3 score is hugely overlooked. It almost rivals Goldsmith's for ALIEN. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
I love Christopher Young's Hellraiser score. Sweeping, haunting and erotic. **swoon** And I've always loved Pino Donaggio's work. Especially The Howling and Dressed to Kill - dramatic and fantastic! Oh - and A Tale of Two Sisters. Sublime. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Yep, the Hellraiser score is superb. I also like the one for Dust Devil. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.132.139.40 |
Agree totally with ALIEN 3 and HELLRAISER mentioned above. John Carpenter has to be in there, although my personal favourite is PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Philip Glass's theme for CANDYMAN manages to bottle that creepy fairy tale atmosphere excellently. Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind's work on THE SHINING is hugely unsettling. In terms of sci-fi, I really liked the soundtrack for SUNSHINE, and I've always had a soft spot for the music from THE BLACK HOLE. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.180.153 |
This clip (which might make you jump if you don't know the film) from GHOST STORY gives a little taste of Philippe Sarde's score, which is one of my favourites from a horror movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ili-uW5evt8 Here's the opening few minutes of the film; the score starts with the opening credits around 1.50: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6hs7XAZ4hs&feature=related | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.153.164.70 |
Some really great choices here. For the record my own favourite theme is 'The Ecstasy of Gold' sequence from 'The Good the Bad and the Ugly'. As perfect a marriage of music and film i'm ever likely to see. It makes the hairs on my neck stand on end every time. I finally got to see and hear this on the big screen last year! | ||
| Nathaniel Tapley (Natt) Username: Natt Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 78.144.206.207 |
The score to 'There Will Be Blood' is one I love... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
Ah, the best movie theme tune for me has to be The Magnificent Seven. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Grand choice, mate - that's certainly my favourite single theme from a movie (and my favourite western). | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
My favourite of all time is another Morricone score. The Thing. For those of you who are unaware of this movie or the director, ask ZED.  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.48.128 |
Oh yes, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is wonderful. Despite the plaudits, it remains an under-appreciated film, I think. Good choices with CANDYMAN and HELLRAISER too. Danny Elfman's NIGHTBREED score has some wonderful tracks. Clive Barker says it's the least corrupted element of the film. THE OMEN III is one of Goldsmith's best. Howard Shore's THE FLY is good, but Christopher Young's THE FLY II score is magical in places. | ||
| Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 79.79.226.128 |
The Omen III is a really underrated film too, in my opinion. Better than its predecessors. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.120.240 |
"The Omen III is a really underrated film too, in my opinion. Better than its predecessors." It's got a stinker of an ending, though, hasn't it? Spoiler: A 30' tall Jesus. And surely the best plot should have been that Damien has a son who's the messiah? That would make his choice much more stark. A historian told me recently that the one thing King Herod was a very progressive leader who added a huge amount to the development of architecture and the one thing he didn't do was to have children killed. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.120.240 |
Ack. Redux: A historian told me recently that King Herod was a very progressive leader who added a huge amount to the development of architecture and the one thing he didn't do was to have children killed. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.120.240 |
James Newton Howard's score for THE SIXTH SENSE is good. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.120 |
Some wonderful choices, folks. It's not a horror film, but I love Thomas Newman's score for The Shawshank Redemption. | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 139.168.48.84 |
"Some really great choices here. For the record my own favourite theme is 'The Ecstasy of Gold' sequence from 'The Good the Bad and the Ugly'. As perfect a marriage of music and film i'm ever likely to see. It makes the hairs on my neck stand on end every time. I finally got to see and hear this on the big screen last year" I'm with you on this one, Sean. Haven't seen it on the big screen, but watched it on BluRay this afternoon. Watched the cemetery sequence three times, with the volume UP! I have 'Once Upon a Time in The West' at the top of the to be viewed pile - I believe this also has a Morricone score? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.63 |
Not specifically written for the film, obviously, but I love the use of Gorecki's third in Peter Weir's FEARLESS. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
I've always loved Clifton Parker's score for Night of the Demon. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
And have I overlooked it, or have we missed out the great Suspiria score? Ted Klein said it had him virtually hiding under the seat before the credits were over. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.50.36 |
I was just going to say, where the heck is Suspiria?! Many of my favourites have been mentioned: Candyman, Phantasm, The Thing, A Tale of Two Sisters. I would also nominate Kenji Kawai's eerie scores for Dark Water and Ring. The quirky Uzumaki score is another good one (and also the song 'Raven' by Do as Infinity, which plays over the end credits). | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.160.64.136 |
Suspiria! That demented Goblin classic. It's in my top 10 horror themes list on youtube along with their 'Profondo Rosso' theme. Both classics imo. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.63 |
Just listening to the soundtrack to THE KEEP for the first time in years - not sure how I feel about it now... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
I have 'Once Upon a Time in The West' at the top of the to be viewed pile - I believe this also has a Morricone score? Boy, do I envy you . . . "Ecstasy of Gold" is soon going to be replaced, I think. My favourite Morricoen piece is in Once Upon a Time in the West: Come una Sentenza, Henry Fonda's theme. |