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Topic: Urgent Assist on City-Wide Haunted House PLEASE!
Maestro Sartori
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I have been commissioned to provide the music for a city-wide haunted house the radio station company I work for is putting on. The only catch? It must be no longer than SEVEN minutes (I can possibly push it to eight minutes), so that they can loop it over and over throughout an night's opening. It will be played throughout the entire venue on massive speakers that can be heard in all 15 rooms. I was asked to make it "the scariest music ever heard".I plan on making a montage of some of the best scary scores ever assembled, mixing in drops from horror movies and other assorted sound effects. What I need to know is this. I have a decent selection of scores to choose from, but I want to ask my moviemusic family--the experts, what you think are the best tracks from these films. And, if I don't have the film, what do you recommend I find?
Nightbreed
Sleepy Hollow
What Lies Beneath
Aliens - Dlx. Ed.
Hannibal
The Omen
Damien: Omen II
Poltergeist
Scream Trilogy Scores
Mimic
Joy Ride
Psycho
The Sixth Sense
Signs
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Fear Dot Com
Halloween 20th
Interview with the Vampire
The Best of Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Queen of the Damned score
The X-Files TV (Truth & Light)Any help would be most appreciated, as I must have this completed by the end of the weekend!
Thanks!
J.C.
posted 10-10-2002 05:04 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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It doesn't get much scarier than the main titles of Goldsmith's Mephisto Waltz.
posted 10-10-2002 05:21 PM PT (US) jonathan_little
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I find all James Horner scores to be scary.Hmm, I'm not being that helpful... am I?
From Damien II, I think the best track is the Main Title. As long as people don't know what "Ave Satani" means, you'll be all set.
Though would your employer be happy if they found out that "Hail Satan" was pumping through their haunted house? I can see the headlines now! What Lies Beneath has some great spots that still surprise the hell out of me.
Jeron's Halloween 2000 Party Music
[Message edited by jonathan_little on 10-10-2002]
posted 10-10-2002 07:43 PM PT (US) Wedge
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I think your selection will be more effective if it is relatively homogenous. A hodgepodge of diverse 30-second clips isn't going sustain any kind of coherent atmosphere. If this is a city-wide event, I also wouldn't go for anything too atonal, dissonant, weird or electronic. Likewise, nothing too complex or subtle. When the radio station asked for "the scariest music ever heard" they *probably* don't mean it exactly that way ... a nerve-shattering musical assault like "Alien 3", or a bona fide satanic rite like "Omen." Are you targeting families, people off the street, etc.? These people come to haunted houses because they want to have FUN being scared. I would go with something effective, but approaching conventional "spooky music." I'd probably edit together 7 minutes from Ronald Stein's "The Haunted Palace," classic horror with a strong and memorable thematic presence ... something that will maintain the appropriate atmosphere of ominous, oppresive dread, and will be very effective blasted over massive speakers continuously, but which won't give people unwanted headaches, distract them, or ruin their mood.Just my two-cents.
[Message edited by Wedge on 10-10-2002]
posted 10-10-2002 08:35 PM PT (US) Maestro Sartori
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Wow.... I can get a lot for two cents these days!Any other suggestions? I really do welcome all the help, advice and naysayers I can get.
J.C.
posted 10-10-2002 08:39 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
Goldmember
Hmm, I guess Wedge (who doesn't post here often enough
) has a point. But you could still at least put something REALLY scary at the end, as a nasty surprise.
posted 10-11-2002 05:24 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB