First up is the mighty PHANTASM. Yes, my copy is signed by star and all around awesome dude, Reggie Bannister. Yeah I know its not the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), but its still awesome. I met him at one of those Fangoria Horror Conventions a few years back. Anyways, Phantasm is one of my favorite movies, and probably one of the more weirder, surreal horror movies out there. It is perfectly complimented by its soundtrack by Fred Myrow & Malcom Seagrave. The haunting melody in my opinion rivals John Carpenter's Halloween theme, but is far less known. Bummer. Probably due to the previously mentioned weirdness.
Next, brought to us by the always strange, always classy, and always very very cheap, Dolor Del Estamago label. Aka Stomach Ache. The dudes over Dolor.... were cool enough to bootleg a bunch of dialog and fucked up sound effects from the classic among classics EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN. You know this one right? You fucking better. Whats even cooler is that instead of just going through the movie from beginning to end, they shuffle it up so the timeline is all screwy to keep us who pretty much have the flick memorized on our toes.
yay! more bootlegs!! I love 'em! Here we have 3 cassettes by the unfortunately short lived Dutch Oven Classic Horror Soundtracks label. I have a pretty good idea who was behind this label, but I'm not gonna spill the beans.
Starting on the left we have of course THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Sound by William Bell & Director Tobe Hooper. Another no brainer that shouldn't need explaining. Dutch Oven was cool enough to take the entire movie and dub it straight on to a 90 minute cassette! That's right, the ENTIRE MOVIE, word for word. Even the creepy John Laroquette intro. The only thing more fucked up than watching the movie is LISTENING TO IT.
In the middle we have EATEN ALIVE, another Bell/Hooper collab. It's not as notorious as TEXAS, but still rules. Pretty simple one here. CHEW CHEW CHEW CHEW. The end, ha! Well, there is more to it than that, but you get the idea.
And finally on the end we have CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, by Fabio Frizzi. Fabio's proggy synthesizer work makes up the soundtrack to Fulci's zombie classic. Frizzi's stuff was always awesome but will forever live in the shadow of the mighty Goblin.
And speak of the Devils! Was super stoked to nab this one on wax recently, here is Goblin's Soundtrack to George Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD. The label did a great job on this reissue. Big gatefold layout, Lots of great screenshots, the works. No list of Horror Soundtracks is complete without at least one entry from the legendary Goblin.
In last years Halloween post, I raved about this unknown classic. DUNWICH HORROR, staring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell. Another one I was lucky enough to find (for surprisingly cheap no less) on wax. Stoked they used that cover too! I love the painting of that monster. Lex Baxter's orchestrated score is great. A little "Big band"ish for my usual tastes but it fits with the movie quite well. I kind of want to do a cover of the main theme. We'll see.
The final bootleg we have today is brought to us by the mysterious Saxon-gregory label, and here is a sick slab of wax containing music and sound effects from one of the weirdest zombie movies ever, BURIAL GROUND. What makes it so weird? I'm not telling. Go watch it, its worth it I swear. The music is so great, lots of fantastic theremin action and spacey synthesizer work mixed with gross zombie sounds that are like... perfect. Yes, it even contains the audio from the infamous "Mommy...." Scene. Horray!!
I was debating on including this just because of how obvious it would be, but fuck it. Found this for extra cheap at this used record/book store out in Glendale when I was still living out there. THE OMEN is better than The Exorcist in my opinion, and the main theme, "Ave Satani" is one of the most iconic horror themes ever. Im super into the Fantomas cover of this as well of thier Director's Cut album. Good Shit.
And finally here we have it, same ending as last year. SUSPIRIA. The king of em all. Sorry for the lack of cover, but my copy of the soundtrack came with my 3-disc "badass" edition of the movie. Goblin's second entry in my list is of course my favorite. I listen to this pretty regularly around here. I'll let them speak for themselves....
There you have it, my favorite Horror Soundtracks. There were tons of others I could include, and I wanted to, but I dont feel like typing that much. So don't bitch to me about ones that I "missed". Thanks.
Happy Halloween fuckers!!!
2 comments:
Hey you forgot 'The Thing' soundtrack!!!!
ah man, I didnt include ANY carpenter stuff. sucks.
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