Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 As a kid, I used to freak out at the main title music when the opening crawl was disappearing into the oblivion of space. That frantic, almost hysterical music made me go "Where's the writing going? Will it ever be seen again?!"Any other choices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 The last time music scared me was when I was listening to Peter And The Wolf at the age of 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 darth mauls theme song is pretty scary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 What a man! With balls as big as a watermelon!For you information, it has little to do with balls but more that I find it beautiful, like for instance Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra in 2001: ASO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 'The Emperor's Throne Room', without any doubt. Quite possibly some of the eeriest music to have ever been written for the silver screen. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,306 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I'm scared that John Williams was capable of writing Lapti Nek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Parts of Horner's Aliens and one particular cue in Goldsmith's Poltergeist put me on edge. The Shining also has some brilliantly unsettling music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Parts of Horner's Aliens and one particular cue in Goldsmith's Poltergeist put me on edge. The Shining also has some brilliantly unsettling music.Not Star Wars The Tractor Beam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 'The Emperor's Throne Room', without any doubt. Quite possibly some of the eeriest music to have ever been written for the silver screen.Along those lines, I think one of Williams' most effective moments in the scores and the closest thing to a scary Star Wars moment I can think of: 1:12-1:25'ishSo fucking awesome. I remember being kinda creeped out by this moment in the film as the Emperor is about to kill Luke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,912 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 As a kid, I always got freaked out by the Dagobah hallucination music where Luke encounters vader under the tree. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 26, 2015 Author Share Posted September 26, 2015 Ben's disembodied voice when he says "Run Luke, run!" had me hiding behind the lounge too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,041 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Some of the Emperor's music in Jedi still gets to me. Really bonechilling stuff. Also, it's not scary so much as eerily tense, but I love the distant tinkles of dissonant piano just after Leia wraps up her speech before the Battle of Hoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Sounds like A.I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 0:00 - 1:15 of this. Though not played in the context of the film as meaning to be scary, I still find it quite chilling. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Some of the Emperor's music in Jedi still gets to me. Really bonechilling stuff.Also, it's not scary so much as eerily tense, but I love the distant tinkles of dissonant piano just after Leia wraps up her speech before the Battle of Hoth.Yes - definitely. Two pianos in unison, I think, by the way?As a side note, the passage that follows is probably one of my favourite fanfare-esque moments in ESB. Pure bliss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,041 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I believe so, yep. And then you get the high violins and the softly militaristic percussion in there...so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 'The Emperor's Throne Room', without any doubt. Quite possibly some of the eeriest music to have ever been written for the silver screen.Funny thing, I think its so "loud", "busy" and over the top, that its not really scary just really enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I was referring to this particular cue, Fal . Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 627 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 'The Emperor's Throne Room', without any doubt. Quite possibly some of the eeriest music to have ever been written for the silver screen.Along those lines, I think one of Williams' most effective moments in the scores and the closest thing to a scary Star Wars moment I can think of: 1:12-1:25'ishSo fucking awesome. I remember being kinda creeped out by this moment in the film as the Emperor is about to kill Luke.1:25 to 1:45 is what really creeped me out, especially with the visuals. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I believe so, yep. And then you get the high violins and the softly militaristic percussion in there...so good.Oh, the two piano parts are not written in unison, by the way. One of the two doubles the other an octave higher, with some slight vertical omissions here and there to make the melody more apparent (harmony that high isn't all too perceivable, anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I was referring to this particular cue, Fal .I know.Its one of those cues that seems so loud on album, but in film is almost barely noticable (in a good way). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 From 3:22 to 3:43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted September 27, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2015 My two favourite SW scores are by no sheer coincidence the darkest. 2:48-3:45https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIHI5aouffE1:05-2:18 5:43-6:35 and 8:06-42 Cerebral Cortex, Dixon Hill and Jilal 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Clown Dream from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Nothing else comes close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 As a kid, I always got freaked out by the Dagobah hallucination music where Luke encounters vader under the tree.I was thinking of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Already mentioned, but definitely 8:47. Has Williams ever gotten more harshly unsettling? Joni Wiljami and Sharkissimo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 627 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Already mentioned, but definitely 8:47. Has Williams ever gotten more harshly unsettling? Gives me goosebumps every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 That moment in The Tide Turns after the rendition of the force theme and the battle is over, this alarming bloody stinger happens. It scares me because of how abrupt amd out of nowhere it comes. I haven't seen TPM in a while so I can't tell what exactly is incidental about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Some of the action underscore in TPM is scary in the sense that it's constructed in an intimidatingly ingenious way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyy38 21 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Song?Instrumental, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 No, that's also stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,492 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 There's not that much STAR WARS music that is particularly scary, IMO. The Sand People music has some wild dissonance; and then there's that cue where Luke walks into the evil tree thingie (ha, ha....can you tell I don't obsess over these things?). Not much else. All the music for the Empire, Vader and the emperor is dark, of course, but not particularly scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Agreed. Close Encounters would be better for this conversation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,492 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Agreed. Close Encounters would be better for this conversation.Most definitely. Or IMAGES. Or a number of individual cues in scores, like the Vietnam sequence in BOT4OJ, or the cue for the freaky attic lady in JANE EYRE, or the cue for those ghostly thingies in HARRY POTTER, or the ritual cue in TEMPLE OF DOOM, or the raptor in the kitchen cue in JP etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Aye, I was just in 1977 time zones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 I listened to the Temple of Doom track on the bus the other day, Thor. Let's just say it was an intense bus ride that resulted in my ears being obliterated by the chanting KORA, KORA, KORA SATA JA! (or whatever they were singing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 The second half of "Padme's Ruminations" is pretty spooky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 I'll just drop this here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 This section at 2:43 and the brass crescendo at 5:04 too, to a slightly lesser extent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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