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Topic: Fred Katz' good music for lousy horror films, Addison's Seven Percent Solution
John C Winfrey
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Fred Katz did some really good scores for some of the worst horror films ever done. For practically worthless, and somewhat funny horror films like Wasp Woman and Beast from Haunted Cave, he wrote some excellent music. The pursuit and action music in the Beast from Haunted Cave is quite good. Wasp Woman has some good "attack" music when the lady goes for a kill. Beautiful Susan Cabot was the wasp.Beast has the inane plot of bank robbers trying to ski cross-country to get away with their cash and they run into a monster hiding in a cave. Really dumb. The monster plasters them to the wall and sucks their brains out. The monster only kills the bad guys, of course. It seems to know which are good and which are bad. Same as in the Venom movie with Klaus Kinski and Sterling Hayden. Only the bad guys get bit. The mamba crawls around the room and only bites the crooks.
How many of you really like Addison's great score for Seven Percent Solution? An excellent score in my opinion with several different good themes in it. One of his best overall.
Best, John.
posted 08-28-2001 07:15 PM PT (US) Brad Wills
Oscar® Winner
The Seven - Per - Cent Solution is a wonderful score IMO with two of Addison's most lovely themes, the friendship motif for Holmes and Watson and the gorgeous long line melody for Fraulein Devereaux. I just watched this film last week and found it to be truly underrated, containing terrific performances, especially Alan Arkin's Freud. John, do you have the promo LP produced by Tony Thomas? It seems to be a re-recording done at the time of the original scoring sessions as the main title and a handful of cues are markedly different. However it includes an alternate Main Title. Nice stuff. John Addison is sorely missed.
posted 08-28-2001 07:54 PM PT (US) PeterK
FishChip
If there ever was to be a great 2-on-1 issue of Addison's music on CD, it would be Seven-Per-Cent Solution and Sleuth. Thanks for reminding me of these fine scores, John. My turntable's been going non-stop lately.
posted 08-28-2001 07:59 PM PT (US) John C Winfrey
Oscar® Winner
Yes, Brad, I do have that LP. I found a sealed copy of that around 1990 at a store in Kansas City that used to have tons of good, cheap score LPs. Most were 5 or 6 dollars each, but many were 3-4 also. I picked 'em clean from 1984-1992. Not much there now. I have never seen the film. Thanks, John.
posted 08-28-2001 10:26 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB