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MarkA Oscar® Winner	Any good ideas?
posted 10-30-2001 05:30 PM PT (US)

SEBULBA Oscar® Winner	I compiled a pretty cool cd. I had a halloween fx track that runs 17 min., I looped it to 78 min., and mixed in 78 min. worth of cues from all different horror scores. It turned out pretty cool. So at quiet spots and between cues, there's still sound from the fx. Howling, wind, lightning, cats, etc. It turned out cool. 78 min. of nonstop. Then just put the cd on replay, and there ya go.
posted 10-30-2001 05:32 PM PT (US)

Tim_P Oscar® Winner	"Wreckage and Rape" from Alien3. That ought to make that 5-year-old in the cute pumpkin costume freak out. Tim
posted 10-30-2001 05:51 PM PT (US)

wistiti Oscar® Winner	Anything by Max Steiner or Alfred Newman. That should scare younger kids. Or you could try Beetlejuice.
posted 10-30-2001 07:38 PM PT (US)

jonathan_little Oscar® Winner	Omega Man's weirdo organ stuff! I think Jerry Goldsmith's Coma would be a good soundtrack for a haunted house. Warning: Chris Gordon's When Good Ghouls go Bad is a pile of crap, so don't go near that.
posted 10-30-2001 07:46 PM PT (US)

dgoldwas Oscar® Winner	Play CANDYMAN. or if you REALLY want to scare them, play GOLDENEYE. <shudder> Dan
posted 10-30-2001 07:50 PM PT (US)

James Oscar® Winner	My family has fun with this every year. We rig some hidden speakers out on the porch and play "The Murder" from Psycho just as people are about to ring the doorbell. We use the version on the Erich Kunzel CD "Chiller," because the added screams seem to freak them out even more. Now that we've been doing this for a few years, it's not uncommon for some neighborhood kid trick-or-treating with a friend to turn to his/her companion and say, "Be careful. This house is haunted." Lots of fun, as long as we're careful not to freak out the really, really little kids. We've had some crying in the past. The best was the little girl who ran halfway down the block before her mother caught up with her. James
posted 10-30-2001 09:37 PM PT (US)

Swashbuckler Oscar® Winner	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Dan scared the living @#$% out of me!!! Goldeneye indeed... I have to go change my pants now... [Message edited by Swashbuckler on 10-30-2001] [Necessary truncation of the yell...] [Message edited by PeterK on 10-31-2001]
posted 10-30-2001 09:58 PM PT (US)

Pete M Oscar® Winner	What you really need is a copy of Suspiria. That'd learn them. NP Candyman
posted 10-31-2001 01:12 AM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	anything by a Media Ventures-style "composer"
posted 10-31-2001 01:28 AM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	Hahah Jonathan, you really dislike When Good Ghouls Go Bad don't you? I figured that with the large amount of *** reviews it receieved it would be good, however I, like you, don't find it very interesting and pretty uneventful. Again I must give it more time (which will be tough with all the other scores out right now), but so far I'm unimpressed.
posted 10-31-2001 01:31 AM PT (US)

Ken S Oscar® Winner	James, because of Halloween alone I would like to live in the U.S. - it's wonderful to see how you people use your own creativity to get THE best out of a celebration like this (- Finnish people seem to lack that kind of imagination and creativity). I happen to know the Kunzel & Cincinnati Pops recording of PSYCHO you mentioned - and even I have to admit that I don't want to listen to that CD because of these sound effects that are recorded at TOO realistic levels; even though the screams on "The Murder" aren't so "dramatic", the recording level itself makes the trick - just too damn REAL... I WANT TO COME RINGING YOUR DOORBELL !!! KEN
posted 10-31-2001 04:50 AM PT (US)

John F Oscar® Winner	HANNIBAL- need I say more? John F
posted 10-31-2001 05:24 AM PT (US)

Pumpkinhead Oscar® Winner	Pieces from Nightmare Before Christmas, HalloweeN, The Haunting, The Omen, Troll, Shrunken Heads, etc.
posted 10-31-2001 05:31 AM PT (US)

SBD Oscar® Winner	A few suggestions: "Main Title" - THE ALCHEMIST any of the choral tracks from THE SECRET OF N.I.M.H. "Into the Hole" and "Main Title" - THE BLACK HOLE "Main Title" - MIMIC Also, "The Murder" is pretty obvious; anything from PSYCHO will do.
posted 10-31-2001 05:32 AM PT (US)

John Zimmer Oscar® Winner	Oh yeah Hannibal track one mwha ha ha ha haaa!!! Jz
posted 10-31-2001 07:17 AM PT (US)

JEC Oscar® Winner	THE BLACK CAULDRON, if you've got it.
posted 10-31-2001 09:26 AM PT (US)

SFT Oscar® Winner	Great suggestions here. I want to add Elfman´s NightBreed to the list - a great dark score, with lots of spooky music. SFT NP: Halloween, John Carpenter ***/***
posted 10-31-2001 09:29 AM PT (US)

BobaMike Oscar® Winner	If you guys buy a box of Count Chocula cereal, there is a soundtrack cd to the Fox Family Channel's "13 Days of Halloween" shows. The songs are so amazingly awful, they'll scare anyone! The Digimon Halloween theme song sung by the Baha Men! ahhhhhhhhhhhh! BobaMike
posted 10-31-2001 10:29 AM PT (US)

Jared Cowing Oscar® Winner	Well, for next year, you could play the one I'm working on now- It's about 11 minutes in length, and I've convinced myself that it will be the start of a beautiful film scoring career- If I sound a little ambitious, well, I'm a teenager. That's what we're here for.
posted 10-31-2001 06:51 PM PT (US)

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