Themes From Scary Movies

Posted by Johnny Cat in Movies & SciFi, Music, Video Clips on October 20, 2009 at 10:23 pm

poltergeist-(2)Quick, think of a piece of music from a scary movie.

If you could think of seven different themes, chances are a few of them are on Cinematical’s list.

One of the seven is one of my favorite movies of the genre, Poltergeist, music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Jerry Goldsmith previously contributed a classic horror theme with his score for Richard Donner’s Omen, but this one, not unlike Komeda’s work on Rosemary’s Baby, runs counter to expectations that horror movie music needs to be naturally dark or heavy to be menacing. That said, the children’s chorus that sweetly and innocently provides a theme for the film’s young protagonist – ironically, sort of the conduit for both its “monster” and heroine – is at once wholesome and terrifying, creating a similar sense of unease and eventually terror as the kids embody the film’s themes of childhood swallowed by a mysterious and terrifying world.

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Orchestral Doogie Howser

Posted by Stacy in Video Clips on January 12, 2009 at 10:17 pm

I don’t remember to watch Saturday Night Live very often, but I’m glad I remembered to last weekend because I was completely delighted by this Digital Short of Neil Patrick Harris and the cast jamming out to the Doogie Howser, M.D. theme song. However, I woke up with that song stuck in my head both yesterday morning and this morning. Consider yourself warned.

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