Carter Burwell's score (his first for a motion picture) is frequently fascinating -- it seemed at the time to be slightly influenced by John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, but Burwell also brought some other weird stuff to the table, such as the deranged male choral wailing over one cue -- this bizarre sound was, in fact, actual live Library of Congress tapes of a genuine chain gang, which Burwell took (it was public domain) and played in reverse. This was the score that got Burwell the PSYCHO III assignment (director Anthony Perkins had wanted Jerry Goldsmith to score it -- Perkins had actually wept when he first heard Goldsmith's gentle PSYCHO II theme for Norman Bates -- but Goldsmith either wasn't available or didn't want the job.)

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