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Apr 3, 2017 - 5:34 PM
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FROM BEYOND
Composed and Conducted by RICHARD BAND
INTRADA Special Collection 378
The 1986 Empire Pictures film From Beyond features music that takes place in two worlds. One is the orchestral, organic sound of reality, where masochistic desire and monsters are made flesh by the film's catalyst of evil -- the resonator. The other is one of chilling, expressionistic electronics, coming through in bizarre, undulating waves to reflect a floating dimension of horrors. From Beyond’s score keeps the listener on a razor’s edge, creating a sense of nerve-twisting unease that transcends the simple act of listening. A complex, yet coherent meld of 40–45 string players with harp, piano, percussion and a multitude of electronic ideas woven throughout, Band showcases a horror score that rises above its peers.
For this reissue of one of Band's most prized works, Intrada has remixed the entire score from the 24-track session elements. In addition to startling clarity and never-before-heard detail, several previously unreleased tracks bring additional depth to the score, particularly the important “Kathy Dresses Up,” with its cascading harps, piano arpeggios and undulating figures combining to create a creepy, quasi-sensual feel for Kathy’s seductive behavior courtesy the resonator.
The production reunites Re-Animator's producer Brian Yuzna, director Stuart Gordon, actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton and of course composer Richard Band. Crampton plays Dr. Katherine McMichaels, a psychologist determined to cure schizophrenia by unlocking the secrets of the resonator, a device created by the depraved Dr. Edward Pretorious (Ted Sorel). Some unknown force has removed Pretorius’ entire head, leaving his distraught research assistant, Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs), as the prime suspect in Pretorious’ murder. Attempting to recreate the doctor’s experiment, McMichaels can’t help but turn on the resonator time and again, unleashing a horrifically mutating form of Pretorious, along with a sea of ghastly creatures now made murderously aware of human existence.
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01. Resonator Works (1:24)
02. No Control (4:03)
03. From Beyond – Main Title (Revised #2) (2:12)
04. We Saw Creatures (1:58)
05. He’s All Yours (1:16)
06. Benevolent Street (2:38)
07. More Axe (1:15)
08. Pretty, Isn’t She (1:02)
09. They All See (4:40)
10. First Kiss (2:25)
11. In The Cellar (Revised) (1:53)
12. Kathy Dresses Up (2:56)
13. Fuses Blow (0:40)
14. The Swarm (1:43)
15. Bubba Dies (3:00)
16. Resonator Starts Up (0:53)
17. Kathy’s Hospital Run (1:46)
18. French Eye Kiss (2:47)
19. Paramedics (1:51)
20. Back To The Resonator (1:40)
21. Gland Eater (0:44)
22. Kathy’s Freed (4:42)
23. Soliloquy Tag (1:30)
24. From Beyond – End Credits (3:32)
Total Score Time: 52:57
The Extras
25. From Beyond – Main Title (Revised) (2:36)
26. In The Cellar (Original) (1:49)
27. Psycho Wild Stingers (0:10)
Total Extras Time: 4:38
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Is it BOYS FROM BRAZIL bobb?
(I haven't heard it or played any clips, I'm going from memory of the Humanoids score).
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This one's admittedly growing on me. I always knew it was wonderful work, I just never really knew what to make of it outside the (amazing) film. I think I just never got into the proper mindset for this listening experience.
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This was the first movie I saw scored by Richard Band, and it is still one of the best B horror movies I know, and one of the few Lovecraft inspired films that captures something of his ineffable strangeness (though not exactly true to his style and sensibility).
I was delighted to find the cassette release in 1987 and listened to it to pieces. And of course I have the LLL release. But I can already tell that the additions in the new release will help fill out the score and make it a more effective listen.
Though I have heard the almost direct lifts and homages in others of Band's scores, which I attribute to temp track fever, I don't hear the direct Goldsmith reference mentioned here, but someone working in the same idiom. Anyway, doesn't matter, this is one of Band's most effective and best-made scores.
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Just listened to Intrada's new edition, and it is by far the best presentation (and best sounding version) of this exceptionally strong horror score. It just flew by, and oddly I had found the LLL version a bit turgid, so I don't know why that was but I love this 'un!
Even love the extras at the end - the stingers on the last track are a great send off to the dark (and darkly humorous) side.
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I thought I'd give you lot a heads up - a week or so ago, this title quietly snuck into the less than 100 Danger Zone at Intrada - checking today, it moved to the less than 50 club....
I hate having my hand forced on buying, but ordered this today since it sounds like it's worth the upgrade. One of my first soundtracks , that old Enigma cassette back in Christmas '86, I didn't know what to make of it. Grew to love it over time....that old tape still (barely) plays. Ah nostalgia.....
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Cool! I hope this means it did even better than they expected it would.
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I hope this wasn't a score I wanted—I still need to see the film!
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I almost missed getting this. Just kept putting off the purchase. Anyway, it is still up on the SAE website, so I grabbed my copy just a moment ago.
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