House By The Video Store has created a very cool mashup by taking several scenes, including the infamous shower murder, from Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho and replacing Bernard Herrmann’s phenomenal score with the music of Disasterpeace from the film It Follows, pulling off a movie they call the “Soundtrack Swap”.
HBTVS write, “Two films 54 years apart each take on a slightly new life when their soundtracks are exchanged.”
What’s really cool is that not only did Disasterpeace’s music get put on Psycho but Bernard Herrmann’s score was placed on It Follows and it works surprisingly well! I’m sure there are films where swapping out soundtracks wouldn’t work in the slightest but this isn’t one of those times. In fact, this is a very clever and exciting way to explore how music can have a tremendous impact on a scene.
