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When the soundtrack was cut into the movie, Carpenter felt the tense moments could benefit from a different approach, so the director recorded some electronic instrumentation by himself to complement the film’s atmosphere. – Martin Chiltonīest track: “Our Darkest Sabbath” 26: The Thing (Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter, 1982)Īccording to John Carpenter, Morricone recorded all the orchestration for horror classic The Thing without having seen any clips. The evocative soundtrack is like a musical memento mori alongside the eccentric, unsettling images. The remaining band recorded 39 short tracks (the longest is under four minutes) for Peter Strickland’s horror film about a timid British engineer working in Italy in the 1970s. – Caren GibsonĬlick to load video 27: Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)īritish electronic band Broadcast completed the music for the Berberian Sound Studio in the wake of their own horrific experience: the sudden death from pneumonia of 42-year-old lead singer Trish Keenan.

Bernard Herrmann’s dizzying soundtrack to Vertigo captures both the psychological issues of the main protagonist, John “Scottie” Ferguson, and the twists and turns of the movie’s unwinding plot. It’s the composer’s job to translate what they see on screen into sounds that heighten an audience’s emotional response to a movie. – Martin Chiltonīest track: “De Natura Sonoris” (Penderecki) 28: Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann, 1958) The discordant, modernist music informs the entire adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling novel. Kubrick and Gordon Stainforth, his music editor on this 1980 classic, created a chilling sonic landscape, using pieces from electronic music trailblazers Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, and also from a selection of pre-existing concert pieces by Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, and Béla Bartók. Stanley Kubrick draws on potent music to heighten the tension in the terrifying scenes that pepper his magnificent psychological horror thriller The Shining. Tangerine Dream, especially co-founder and main composer Edgar Froese, found the perfect creepy, moody, otherworldly music to accompany the dramatic action. 30: The Keep (Michael Mann, 1983)ĭirector Michael Mann described Tangerine Dream’s sound as “the cutting edge of electronic music,” and two years after working with Mann on the soundtrack for The Thief, the German electronic maestros composed the brooding, atmospheric music for Mann’s film The Keep, a chiller about Nazi soldiers awakening supernatural evil.

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(Just ask the kids going out to trick or treat when they hear a bit of The Omen or Wicker Man soundtrack as they start to ring the doorbell.) These 30 picks, then, are the best horror movie soundtracks of all time. Listen to a horror movie soundtrack in isolation, however, and its chilling power can be felt on its own. The composers who do it best can even invoke memories of a standout moment – like the screech of violins in Psycho’s shower scene, or the staccato orchestration of the imminent great white shark attack in Jaws.

A symphony of sonic majesty can evoke emotions, and movie scores are essential to building tension, suspense, and anxiety. Music is intrinsic to horror films, more so than any genre other than perhaps musicals.

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