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Which is your favourite scary cue? Which music from the movies gives you the shivers? Do you get frightened listening to anything by Hans Zimmer?

The cue which I love to dread most is Night of the Beast :o from Poltergeist, though Night Visitor/No Complaints is a close second. The latter in particular is some real spooky sh*t.

Jerry's ghostly strings orchestration is soooo effective at making the hairs on my neck stand up... :P

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The Mummy scene where the camera closes up to the freshly unearthed mummy and Goldsmith scores it with a rather terrifying orchestral blast.

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The film version of ALIEN's main title gives me the creeps. As does "Humanity (Part I)" from THE THING. Favourite is a hard one, but it'd probably go to a Goblin one. Either the main title from SUSPIRIA or "L'alba Dei Morti Viventi" from DAWN OF THE DEAD.

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- Aliens - Main Title, Bad Dream, FaceHuggers

- The Thing - Humanity (Pt. 1)

- Jaws - First Victim

- The Omen - 666

- Carrie - Bucket of Blood

- CE3K - Barry's Abduction

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Either the main title from SUSPIRIA or "L'alba Dei Morti Viventi" from DAWN OF THE DEAD.

I know both of them, with the first being particularly chilling. "WITCH!"

Good call.

I've made three 80-minute CDs of scary tracks for a Murder Mystery evening I'm attending tonight. Here's what I came up with:

Disc 1

1: G. Smart - The Haunted House (at Alton Towers)

2: Vangelis - 100 Metres

3: The Art of Noise - Momento

4: Modest Mussorgsky - Night on the Bare Mountain

5: Organisation - Silver Forest

6: Jeff & Michael Danna - I'm a Ghost

7: Vangelis - Soil Festivities: mvt. 2

8: Goblin - The Wind

9: James Leatherbarrow - Night Voices

10: Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (excerpts)

11: Kraftwerk - Mitternacht

12: Klaus Schulze - Velvet Voyage (excerpt)

13: John Williams - Call of the Crystal

14: Yoko Shimomura - Kingdom Hearts (excerpt)

15: Jerry Goldsmith - Ave Santani

16: Vangelis - Heaven and Hell (excerpts)

Disc 2:

1: Pink Floyd - Quicksilver

2: Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.3: I (excerpt)

3: Gary Numan - Asylum

4: David Bedford - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (excerpt)

5: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon part 2 (opening)

6: Murray Gold - The Doctor's Theme

7: Gustav Holst - Saturn: The Bringer of Old Age

8: Goblin - Suspiria

9: Yello - Magneto

10: Sergei Rachmaninov - Isle of the Dead (excerpt)

11: Mark Harvey - Lagoon (Leatherbarrow mix)

12: Yello - Stalakdrama

13: Jeff & Michael Danna - Underwater

14: Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.3 "Eroica": Funeral March (edit)

15: Yoko Shimomura - Kingdom Hearts clip 2

16: Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxynoxe (Oxygene part 3 mixed into Equinoxe part 4)

17: The Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Pigtail

Disc 3:

1: Wolfman Jack's Halloween Special (excerpt)

2: Goblin - L'Alba Dei Morti Viventi

3: Jeff & Michael Danna - Madrigal for a Mummy

4: CAN - Aumgn (excerpt)

5: Gyorgy Ligeti - Lux Aeterna

6: Jean-Michel Jarre - Wooloomooloo

7: Goblin - Sighs

8: George Crumb - A Haunted Landscape, for Orchestra

9: Camille Saint-Saens - Dance Macabre

10: Vangelis - Soil Festivities: mvt 4 (excerpt)

11: Billy Goldenberg - The Amazing Falsworth

12: Olivier Messiaen - Le Banquet Celeste

13: Alfred Schnittke - Piano Quintet: Moderato Pastorale

14: John Williams - Gillian's Vision

15: Kraftwerk - Kometenmelodie 1

16: Paul Giger - Death

17: Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No.9: IV

As you can see, both Goblin tracks you mentioned are present! :D

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Apart from the obvious "The Murder" cue, I find "The Stairs" cue strangely eerie - Psycho (Bernard Herrmann)

"Atmosphere Station" - Aliens (James Horner)

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Best Halloween cues:

This is Halloween

Remains of the Day

Main Title (Ed Wood)

Prelude (Psycho)

The Murder

Main Titles (Sleepy Hollow)

This is the One (Ed Wood)

Main Titles (Corpse Bride)

Secrets of the Castle

Jack's Lament

Main Titles (Signs)

Hand of Fate Part 1

End Credits (Sleepy Hollow)

Portrait Gallery

Moon Dance

Hagrid the Professor

Jack's Obsession

Making Christmas

Joker's Poem

Descent into Mystery

Batman Theme

Waltz to the Death

Birth of a Penguin

The Children's Hour

Main Titles (Beetlejuice)

According to Plan

Victor's Pinao Solo

Bride of the Monster

Wedding Song

Grim, Grinning Ghosts

The Spiders

Double Trouble

Chamber of Secrets

Oogie Boogie's Song

Kidnap the Sandy Claws

Dogs, Pnies and Old Ruins

Young Ichabod

Opening Title (Sweeney Todd)

Epiphany

Dance of the Witches

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Did you just take a bunch of random (so to speak) Danny Elfman cues and put them together? I cannot deem a quarter of those pieces scary. "Wedding Song"? I partially understand the beginning, but the songs becomes far too lyrical and lush for Halloween, if you get my meaning.

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"Barry's Abduction" from CE3K is a chilling cue.

Oh yes.

Another good one is "The Demetors Converge" from Prisoner of Azkaban.

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:P:o

Did you just take a bunch of random (so to speak) Danny Elfman cues and put them together? I cannot deem a quarter of those pieces scary. "Wedding Song"? I partially understand the beginning, but the songs becomes far too lyrical and lush for Halloween, if you get my meaning.

I said they were Halloweeny cues, not necessarily scary cues. "The Wedding Song," and a couple of others, are there more in association with the film than in actual stand alone Halloweeny-ness.

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10: Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (excerpts)

Surely nothing else than The Gnome?

I mixed together a creepy 7-minute suite including The Gnome (of course), Two Jews, Catacombes, and the middle section (andante mosso) from The Hut on Fowls' legs. It worked really well! The bizarre solo muted trumpet part in the middle of Two Jews is so perverse that it felt creepy!

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10: Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (excerpts)

Surely nothing else than The Gnome?

I mixed together a creepy 7-minute suite including The Gnome (of course), Two Jews, Catacombes, and the middle section (andante mosso) from The Hut on Fowls' legs. It worked really well! The bizarre solo muted trumpet part in the middle of Two Jews is so perverse that it felt creepy!

Ah, nice, that must be an interesting listen! :)

Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems to me that Horner's Aliens is the most mentioned score in this thread. :wave:;)

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