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After far too long a time to wait, James Horner's magnificent score for Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" has finally been officially released. It's limited to 3000 editions, and can be found at the Screen Archives site, here --
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (3000 EDITION) -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT
One of Horner's very best scores, IMHO, delightfully creepy in good measure, with almost achingly nostalgic underpinnings... I've used certain passages from it (recorded off the old LD's mono B track) for my home haunts, really helping to set an eerie and ominous mood (The creepy cuts, obviously; the nostalgic passages I enjoy listening to while carving pumpkins or just watching the turning leaves fall...).
The SAE site also offers a wealth of soundtrack gems from composers like Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Howard Shore, and many others whose work has really put the chill in the greatest horror films of all time. A really wonderful site to prowl.
And speaking of Ron Grainer, or speaking of him just now, his cool score from "The Omega Man" has been re-released ("2.0"), so if you like your macabre organ solos with an angsty-touch of '70's brass and percussion, you might want to check it out as well. (Grainer scored, among other things the title theme and much incidental music for "The Prisoner" series.)
Most Sanguine Cheers,
SOT
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (3000 EDITION) -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT
One of Horner's very best scores, IMHO, delightfully creepy in good measure, with almost achingly nostalgic underpinnings... I've used certain passages from it (recorded off the old LD's mono B track) for my home haunts, really helping to set an eerie and ominous mood (The creepy cuts, obviously; the nostalgic passages I enjoy listening to while carving pumpkins or just watching the turning leaves fall...).
The SAE site also offers a wealth of soundtrack gems from composers like Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Howard Shore, and many others whose work has really put the chill in the greatest horror films of all time. A really wonderful site to prowl.
And speaking of Ron Grainer, or speaking of him just now, his cool score from "The Omega Man" has been re-released ("2.0"), so if you like your macabre organ solos with an angsty-touch of '70's brass and percussion, you might want to check it out as well. (Grainer scored, among other things the title theme and much incidental music for "The Prisoner" series.)
Most Sanguine Cheers,
SOT