Thread: The Definitive Horror Music Collection (2009)

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For years, music companies have put out CD compilations of movie themes that promise to be the “ultimate” or “complete” set. And most of them are woefully disappointing. While they contain the themes to great movies, they’re usually performed on synthesizers or are knockoffs that don’t have near the power or beauty of the originals. But this collection is different, it contains the originals by all the top composers in Hollywood.

To begin with, the four CDs play like a lesson in movie history with the earliest tracks going back to 1922′s Nosferatu, continuing to 2009′s Drag Me to Hell. By taking some of the most powerful music (not just themes) from eighty-seven years worth of horror films, this collection gives the reader a real education in influences and advances in the art of scoring a movie. The composer list reads like a who’s who of music, with names like Danny Elfman, John Williams, Elmer Berstein, and Pino Donaggio.



CD1:

01. Drag Me To Hell (End Titles)
02. Twilight (Edward At Her Bed (Bella’s Lullaby)
03. Lat Den Ratte Komma In (Let The Right One In) (Eli’s Theme)
04. Cloverfield (Roar!)
05. Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)
06. Zodiac (Graysmith’s Theme)
07. Dexter (Main Title)
08. Pan’s Labyrinth (The Labyrinth)
09. King Kong
10. War of The Worlds (Suite)
11. Saw (Hello Zep)
12. 28 Days Later (In The House / In A Heartbeat)
13. Ring (This Is Going To Hurt)
14. Mummy Returns (Main Theme)
15. Vide Cor Meum (from Hannibal)

CD2:

01. Mummy (The Sand Volcano / Love Theme)
02. Sleepy Hollow (End Titles)
03. Haunting (The Carousel / End Titles)
04. Sixth Sense (Malcolm Is Dead)
05. Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Main Theme)
06. Village of The Damned (March of The Children)
07. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (The Storm)
08. Evil Dead 3 (Prologue / Building The Deathcoaster)
09. Witches of Eastwick (Dance of The Witches)
10. Predator (Main Theme)
11. Hellraiser (Main Title / Resurrection)
12. Hellraiser 2 (Main Title)
13. They Live (Main Theme)
14. Aliens (Prelude / Ripley’s Rescue)
15. Ghostbusters (Main Theme)

CD3:

01. A Nightmare On Elm Street (Main Theme)
02. Christine (Bad To The Bone)
03. Poltergeist (Main Theme)
04. The Thing (Main Theme)
05. Halloween 2 (Main Theme)
06. The Fog (Main Theme)
07. Dressed To Kill (The Gallery)
08. The Shining (Music For Strings)
09. Dracula (Main Titles / Storm)
10. Phantasm (Maine Theme)
11. Alien (The Nostromo / End Title)
12. Halloween (Main Theme)
13. The Fury (Main Theme)
14. Suspiria (Main Theme)
15. Exorcist 2 (Regan’s Theme)

CD4:

01. The Omen (Ave Satani)
02. Young Frankenstein (Transylvanian Lullaby)
03. The Exorcist (Tubular Bells)
04. Duel (The Cafe / Truck Attack)
05. Taste The Blood of Dracula (The Young Lovers / Ride To The Ruined Church)
06. Rosemary’s Baby (Lullaby)
07. Twisted Nerve (Suite)
08. Devil Rides Out (The Power of Evil)
09. Dracula, Prince of Darkness (Suite)
10. The Haunting (The History of Hill House)
11. Dracula (Main Title / Finale)
12. Horrors of The Black Museum (Main Theme)
13. Thing From Another World (Main Theme)
14. Bride of Frankenstein (Creation of The Female Monster)
15. Nosferatu (Overture)

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http://rapidshare.com/files/407173705/DefinitiveHorror.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/407178062/DefinitiveHorror.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/407182131/DefinitiveHorror.part3.rar

That is a good list! I thought this was some fan collection, but you can buy it on Amazon.

It's great to see the original performance of these songs. I always feel cheated with the knock offs...

This is a crazy collection. I downloaded it and scanned it for familiar tunes, but half of the material is unfamiliar to my ears. Props for posting.

If you were to realistically put out a "definitive" collection it would take dozens of CDs to hold it all. It is a "LARGE" collection yes, but hardly definitive.

Probably the best collection I've seen for movie theme music, though it would be impossible to collect ALL the great music onto one set of CDs (where are the 40's on this set?). At least they had the wisdom to use the original recordings. Thanks very much for sharing this.