– Caren GibsonĢ7: Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)īritish electronic band Broadcast completed the music for the Berberian Sound Studio in the wake of their own horrific experience: the sudden death from pneumonia of 42-year-old lead singer Trish Keenan. Bernard Herrmann’s dizzying soundtrack to Vertigo captures both the psychological issues of the main protagonist, John “Scottie” Ferguson, and the twists and turns of the movie’s unwinding plot. It’s the composer’s job to translate what they see on screen into sounds that heighten an audience’s emotional response to a movie. – Martin Chiltonīest track: “De Natura Sonoris” (Penderecki) The discordant, modernist music informs the entire adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling novel. Kubrick and Gordon Stainforth, his music editor on this 1980 classic, created a chilling sonic landscape, using pieces from electronic music trailblazers Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, and also from a selection of pre-existing concert pieces by Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, and Béla Bartók. Stanley Kubrick draws on potent music to heighten the tension in the terrifying scenes that pepper his magnificent psychological horror thriller The Shining. – Martin ChiltonĪDVERTISEMENT 29: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) Tangerine Dream, especially co-founder and main composer Edgar Froese, found the perfect creepy, moody, otherworldly music to accompany the dramatic action. (Just ask the kids going out to trick or treat when they hear a bit of The Omen or Wicker Man soundtrack as they start to ring the doorbell.) These 30 picks, then, are the best horror movie soundtracks of all time.ĭirector Michael Mann described Tangerine Dream’s sound as “the cutting edge of electronic music,” and two years after working with Mann on the soundtrack for The Thief, the German electronic maestros composed the brooding, atmospheric music for Mann’s film The Keep, a chiller about Nazi soldiers awakening supernatural evil. Listen to a horror movie soundtrack in isolation, however, and its chilling power can be felt on its own. The composers who do it best can even invoke memories of a standout moment – like the screech of violins in Psycho’s shower scene, or the staccato orchestration of the imminent great white shark attack in Jaws. A symphony of sonic majesty can evoke emotions, and movie scores are essential to building tension, suspense, and anxiety. Music is intrinsic to horror films, more so than any genre other than perhaps musicals.
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