Best Non-Obvious Horror Movie Scores / Soundtracks

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Tom Owen 12 posts
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What are some of your favorite non-obvious answer horror movie scores? By non-obvious I mean the usual suspects like Halloween or other major franchises, or anything by Carpenter, Goblin, Frizzi, etc. I just got Fire in the Sky on vinyl from Terror Vision and it's been playing on repeat. I love the contrast between the warm, atmospheric, more human moments and the aggressive synth work which makes the alien sequences feel that much more terrifying.
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Slash 'n Dash 1 post
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I know it's John Carpenter, but The Fog is imo his best and maybe most overlooked. The Annhilation soundtrack is also great background ambiance.
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Tom Owen OP 12 posts → Slash 'n Dash
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The score and overall sound design in Annihilation are both excellent.
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Tuzotonic 2 posts
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I was listening to the soundtrack from the 1982 film Next of Kin earlier. It is very atmosphere and goes so well with the movie. It gives you a sense of dread and isolation.
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w33dkiller 3 posts
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The soundtrack for Midsommar, no one ever talks about it. The entire soundtrack is scored by Bobby Krlic and blends bright orchestral strings into looming horror. I assume that Bobby Krlic also scored the ambient music not included on the soundtrack (diegetic choral vocals and wind instruments) which made the Harga feel like maybe they really did have divination from the gods to form this utopian system and weren't a terrifying death cult after all. And as it turns out, it was both.
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Biscuits 4 posts
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Bram Stoker's Dracula and Hellraiser are two of my favorites.
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SurroundedByDarkness 1 post
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I really enjoy the I Know What You Did Last Summer (97) score. I had the Soundtrack, but the score wasn't sold in stores as widely. Youtube has the score album. Ravenous (99) is a unique but eerie score, and Children of the Corn is also good.
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The Wolfman 4 posts
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I recently picked up The Place Beyond the Pines on vinyl -- movie itself doesn't do it for me, but loved Mike Patton's score.
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ouzhasoff 2 posts
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I gotta second Ravenous -- it's weird, off-kilter frontier gothic and it always gets under my skin. The soundtrack for Cabin Fever has the same qualities; so do a couple of tracks from the Blair Witch 2 soundtrack. In completely different directions, the theme and outro for Horror Express and "Mater Tenebrarum" from Inferno really capture the unique mood of two waves of horror filmmaking.
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Black_Phillip 7 posts
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Hellraiser would count as obvious but I really love Christopher Young and the mood he creates. Apart from Hellraiser I think his scores for Urban Legend and Drag Me to Hell are pretty great. Howard Shore's score for Silence of the Lambs is haunting but eerily beautiful. I would also mention the late Francois Eudes for High Tension and Inside and Simon Boswell with Dust Devil.
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Black_Phillip 7 posts → Tuzotonic
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Yes, that track "Death of an Analogue" by Klaus Schulze worked great there...it was taken from one of his albums. If you enjoyed that you should check out the Austrian movie Angst for which he did a whole original Score (one track of that was later used by Michael Mann in Manhunter). Also that movie is just intense.
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