Music

[Exclusive] Greeley Estates’ Ryan Zimmerman Picks His Top 10 Slasher Flicks

Published

11 years ago

December 16, 2012

Greeley Estates lead vocalist Ryan Zimmerman is a big horror fan, especially when it comes to slashers. He decided to share some of his favorites with Bloody-Disgusting, so he put together a list of his Top 10 Slasher Flicks. Check it out below!

Greeley Estates has just released a new EP entitled The Narrow Road (iTunes). Another EP entitled Devil Son will be released next year.

1. HALLOWEEN – Classic slasher movie. Set the standards for slasher movies to come. Michael Meyers has the best horror mask of them all
2. SCREAM – This movie was just fun. I loved the masks and I remember seeing it when I was in junior high
3. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE – Such a gnarly movie. Grisly and gruesome. Freaky family. This movie will be remade over and over for years to come
4. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET – Classic. Freddy freaked me out as a kid. Didn’t want to fall asleep
5. BLACK CHRISTMAS – A good holiday slasher classic
6. PROM NIGHT – Classic. Revenge slasher flick. Some great kills on the dance floor
7. PSYCHO – Super creepy. Eerie music and a classic film that has freaked people out for years
8. THE LOVED ONES – This film was one of the only horror movies I thought was legit this last year
9. SESSION 9 – Freaky slasher flick that takes place in an old abandoned mental hospital. Kept me on the edge of my seat
10. COLD PREY – I didn’t expect much from this movie, but I loved it and I think its one of the best slasher flicks in the last few years

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Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

1 week ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…