Thread: Best Horror Movie Soundtrack

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In your opinion, what is absolutely the best horror movie soundtrack? I think the original Dracula is one of the best. Not to mention the main theme from Trick r Treat.

That's a tough one, I have favorites but not just an all time #1 great.

There's the John Carpenter 'Halloween' music, the Phantasm soundtrack, Lot's of Goblin 's soundtracks are great (Suspiria, Dawn Of The Dead, Phenomena, Tenebrae, ect,) The Return Of The Living Dead is a good one, Christopher Young's 'Hellraiser' score is beautiful, Night Of The Living Dead library music, Creepshow, The Deadly Spawn has a terrific soundtrack, Lucio Fulci's Zombie, The Beyond, New York Ripper

There are so many!

The Exorcist
Nightmare on Elm Street

I second JC's Halloween and Exorcist ( Tubular Bells). I also like tracks from Candyman. The classic Night on Bald Mountain was done by Disney as an animation. Pretty cool use of classical music.

Tubular Bells from the Exorcist is great!!! Also, the Halloween soundtrack is iconic.

As a whole soundtrack from beginning to end, I would have to say the 28 days later soundtrack.
I really love the atmosphere that the soundtrack created for the movie! So desolate!

No full soundtrack comes to mind at the moment, but three separate songs I can think of are.

"Adagio E Cantabile"-Haydn (Interview With the Vampire)
"Estasi Dell Anima"-David Sardy (Zombieland)
"End Credits"-Bruno Coulais (Coraline)

Hmmm ... are you referring to Philip Glass's 1999 score for 1931's Dracula? The original 1931 Dracula didn't really have a musical score other than a little bit of Swan Lake during the opening (also used in the Mummy, 1932).

My favorite is probably Waxman's score for 1935's The Bride of Frankenstein. Creature from the Black Lagoon is awfully good too ... but my preferences lean towards the oldies.

I couldn't just pick one! Some of my childhood favorites were Halloween, Phantasm, The Shining, and Suspiria. (I still LOVE them.) But I've also enjoyed Charlie Clouser's Dead Silence, Carter Burwell's Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows, and Steve Jablonsky's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning...and lots of others....

Yeah, i was referring to Philip Glass and the Cronos Quartet. I would watch the movie just for that score.

This is an easy one for me, now talking just Movie soundtrack it is Halloween all the way. That theme just screams Halloween to me, and yes I also like trick r treat alot.