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‘Immaculate’ Soundtrack Pressed on Vinyl by Terror Vision
The Immaculate soundtrack is available on vinyl from Terror Vision Records in partnership with Lakeshore Records.
The score is pressed on Blood Red colored vinyl and housed in a gatefold jacket with liner notes by composer Will Bates (I Origins, “The Magicians”). Priced at $28.98, it’s expected to ship in June.
“Bates’ score is rooted with utilizing instruments traditionally associated with religious settings. These instruments, with their ancient tones, were then woven into the film’s score, creating an atmosphere that feels both timeless and eerily otherworldly,” Terror Vision writes.
“It’s difficult not to see the parallels of Bates’ work and the iconic scores of Italian horror maestros like Goblin, Fabio Frizzi, Riz Ortolani, Bruno Nicolai, and Stelvio Cipriani. However, Bates’ score stands out by blending traditional choral elements with avant-garde instrumentation, creating a unique auditory experience that is both familiar and unsettling.”
In the religious horror film, devout American nun Cecilia embarks on a new journey in a remote convent in the picturesque Italian countryside. Cecilia’s warm welcome quickly devolves into a nightmare as it becomes clear her new home harbors a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.
Michael Mohan directs from a script by Andrew Lobel. Sydney Sweeney stars with Álvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli, Dora Romano, Giorgio Colangeli, and Simona Tabasco.
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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