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[Video] Watch ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’ Composer Play Score With Live Orchestra

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An iconic synth score is given new life.

The scores of our favorite horror movies are often as important as anything else on display in them, and thanks to companies like Death Waltz and Waxwork Records, many of the best have been hitting vinyl in the last few years. The vinyl releases have spawned a resurgence of interest in classic movie scores, giving them the respect and appreciation that they’ve always deserved.

One of my personal favorite scores was composer John Massari’s for Killer Klowns From Outer Space, which nabbed him a nomination for a Saturn Award. The fun, synth-heavy score was the perfect companion to the 1988 film’s wacky visuals, and now nearly 30 years later, Massari has taken it upon himself to revisit the tunes and present them in a brand new way.

As Massari just announced over on his Facebook page, he’s performing the iconic Killer Klowns score with a live orchestra as part of a new scoring session series, and though we’re not yet sure if he’s planning to release the revamped score at some point, he has begun uploading videos of the live performances. The first one just went up, and we think you’re going to dig it.

Massari explains:

This video captures the RAW energy direct for the scoring stage itself. What a wonderful scoring stage at Warner Brothers! Great work by the excellent Scoring Engineer, Noah Scot Snyder & producer, Noah Gladstone! Special thanks to Alan Derian for being my ears in the booth!

Here is the result of taking a late 1980s synth score and performing it with a LIVE Orchestra!

A very inspired performance by the awesome musicians of the Local 47! Some sweetening, mixing and mastering still ahead.

Stay tuned for more music from Killer Klowns from Outer Space!” he added.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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