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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 04/08/2008 : 7:38:02 PM
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Is there a particular movie soundtrack or theme music that always gives you the willies?
I could name some obvious choices, but I'd rather start this thread off by tossing one out from left field:
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Something about Jerry Goldsmith's opening titles music has always given me the creeps. Even now when I listen to the .mp3 it unsettles me. Oddly, when I listen to his tracks for Alien, although I admire them greatly, they don't get the same rise out of me that his Apes music does.
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Edited by - zombiewhacker on 04/08/2008 7:39:28 PM
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2008 : 7:42:58 PM
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All the Ligeti pieces from 2001 a space odyssey weird me out to this day. For an original score... and not an obvious horror or suspense score... dunno, got to think on it!
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2008 : 8:31:25 PM
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| Let's see.... if you're counting soundtracks that use existing tracks, it's hard to go wrong with The Shining. Although I didn't like Alien Cubed, the score, by Elliott Goldenthal, can scare the bejeezus outta me. |
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
630 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2008 : 9:50:56 PM
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The soundtrack that has always given me the heebie jeebies is the "Armstrong Kidnapping" soundtrack at the begining of Murder on the Orient Express. Just after the opening credits.
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFq_55rmb94"]Click Here to See(and hear) it. It starts at the 2:51 mark.[/url]
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Pip
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
333 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2008 : 10:15:40 PM
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Soundtrack for Requiem for a Dream, particularly "Lux Ęterna" and "Ghosts of Things to Come" and "The Beginning of the End". Familiar strings weirded out by effects.
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
904 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2008 : 11:21:48 PM
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THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE is probably tops in giving me the chills with the music. THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and THE NIGHT STALKER have very effective music too.
From TV series: THE OUTER LIMITS, ONE STEP BEYOND, DARK SHADOWS and NIGHT GALLERY
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2008 : 11:36:07 PM
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Speaking of Night Stalker-y things,the theme to the TV show Kolchak: The Night Stalker would be a definite pick for me. Great piece, really dark, driving and eerie. Actually, I would tend to say that taken as a whole music for TV in the 60's and early 70's was a lot more daring and atonal (which generally translates to creepy) than music for film; also more experimental in the use of electronic instruments (such as they were at the time) although you did have things like Planet Of The Apes and forays into really avant garde electronic non-musical scores even in the 50's like Forbidden Planet. Which is probably one of the only decent ones. Themes like Twilight Zone and Outer Limits were really... well, out there! Especially by standards of the day.
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2008 : 03:53:12 AM
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Originally posted by BradH812
Let's see.... if you're counting soundtracks that use existing tracks, it's hard to go wrong with The Shining.
That would be my pick too, although Jerry Goldsmith's score for The Omen is also extremely creepy. Bought it on tape and couldn't listen to it more than twice. |
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Cannon Fodder
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
176 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2008 : 05:31:57 AM
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The music that United Artists used with their logo back in, I think, the eighties. I associate it with watching James Bond movies but it scared the crap out of me as a kid and judging by the comments on youtube I might not be the only one.
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=e5tqnBXd89I[/url] |
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
1455 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2008 : 07:06:26 AM
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For me, it's always been the original Halloween. That soundtrack really set the tone of the whole movie.
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
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Gristle McThornbody
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Germany
186 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2008 : 08:55:10 AM
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Suspiria...but only if I'm in the right mood. In the wrong mood, it seems out of place at times.
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2008 : 09:26:19 AM
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Actually, now that I think about it the opening music to The Shining wasn't an existing work; it was written (or at least, adapted) for the film by Wendy Carlos.
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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ginbot
Archdeacon of Jabootu
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Posted - 04/09/2008 : 09:31:29 AM
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Since others mentioned TV as well, the old Dr. Who intro music use to scare me as a kid. On PBS (at least where I was), Dr. Who would come on after This Old House which my dad and I watched religiously. But, the Dr. Who intro frightened me so much that I started getting up to go to bed once Bob started wrapping things up.
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2008 : 7:03:56 PM
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Originally posted by Sardu
Actually, now that I think about it the opening music to The Shining wasn't an existing work; it was written (or at least, adapted) for the film by Wendy Carlos.
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
--Tampopo
It was the fourth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (actually, the opening of it), adapted by Wendy Carlos. There's no soundtrack for the movie per se, but I do know that Carlos's unused score (including the bits that were used) is available as part of a compilation CD, and I wouldn't be surprised if you could download the other tracks off Amazon.
Hmmmmmm, may need to spend a coupla bucks. |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2008 : 7:35:21 PM
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Well, it was a setting of the Dies Irae which (in a musical sense) dates back to Gregorian chant and the earliest days of written music... Wikipedia has a list of over 100 classical pieces that quote it and that's certainly incomplete. Actually, Berlioz modified the meter slightly and Carlos mimicked that somewhat but I wouldn't really call hers an adaptation of his; more just two ideas flowing from the same original concept...
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
203 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2008 : 1:52:24 PM
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Most of the ones I'd have picked (Halloween, Shining, Omen) are chosen, but I'll add in The Exorcist. That damn Tubular Bells piece raises my hackles to this day thanks to the association.
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