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 Posted:   Mar 26, 2007 - 1:48 PM   
 By:   David Sones (Allardyce)   (Member)

Just revisited this film for the first time in several years, and WOW what a wonderful and addictive score! I'd completely forgotten it. Highly effective and sticks in the brain instantly. I noticed amazon has what appears to be a fairly complete score release, but I wonder about the quality of the recording; the cover looks rather bootish.

 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2007 - 2:06 PM   
 By:   David Sones (Allardyce)   (Member)

Oh, and a question...was this the first horror film score to use a child's lullaby approach? Since so many horror films after it did, I wonder if this one started it?

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2007 - 2:33 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

This topic has come up on more than one occasion here.

Some CD releases are from the actual score, but omit much of the music heard in the final quarter or so of the film.

There is at least one CD out with the LP re-record. It contains a shorter sampling of music, but includes some of the music omitted in the actual film score CDs, notably the amazing track "Panic."

Which brings us to the next issue. The titles are all screwed up on most releases. Some will list the cue "Panic" but it's not on there. That's just one example.

So, yes, it's out there but problematic.

BTW, you're not Mrs. Allardyce up in the attic, are you? wink

 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2007 - 2:42 PM   
 By:   David Sones (Allardyce)   (Member)

BTW, you're not Mrs. Allardyce up in the attic, are you? wink


Mayyyyybe.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2007 - 3:10 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)



Mayyyyybe.


Then you may already know that there's a suite from Robert Cobert's "Burnt Offerings" score on CD.

 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2007 - 3:38 PM   
 By:   David Sones (Allardyce)   (Member)



Then you may already know that there's a suite from Robert Cobert's "Burnt Offerings" score on CD.


NO!! I didn't know that! Where can I get it?

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2007 - 3:42 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)



NO!! I didn't know that! Where can I get it?


Most online CD retailers. The collection is called "The Night Stalker and Other Classic Thrillers."

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Stalker-Other-Classic-Thrillers/dp/B00004WJ6K/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7614590-7954460?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1174931056&sr=1-1

 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2007 - 3:43 PM   
 By:   David Sones (Allardyce)   (Member)



Most online CD retailers. The collection is called "The Night Stalker and Other Classic Thrillers."

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Stalker-Other-Classic-Thrillers/dp/B00004WJ6K/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7614590-7954460?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1174931056&sr=1-1

You're a peach! Thanks much for the tip!

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2007 - 10:51 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)


You're a peach! Thanks much for the tip!


Don't mention it. I'll be upstairs with your dinner presently...

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 27, 2007 - 12:15 AM   
 By:   DS   (Member)

You can download an MP3 of the gorgeous Main Title here at the official Komeda webpage:

http://www.komeda.vernet.pl/filmogb.htm

 
 Posted:   Aug 1, 2024 - 7:09 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

You can download an MP3 of the gorgeous Main Title here at the official Komeda webpage:

http://www.komeda.vernet.pl/filmogb.htm


updated link: https://www.komeda.pl/index.html

Good luck finding the mp3, unless you read Polish.

 
 Posted:   Aug 1, 2024 - 7:11 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

This seems good a place as any to mention that the 2-disc dvd of RB has an extensive bio-documentary of Komeda.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 1, 2024 - 10:52 PM   
 By:   oregstevens   (Member)

Oh, and a question...was this the first horror film score to use a child's lullaby approach? Since so many horror films after it did, I wonder if this one started it?

Cat People 1942
The Bad Seed 1956
The Innocents 1961

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2024 - 4:04 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

At a bit of a tangent and not horror - Rachmaninoff's Vocalise was 1915.
Just thoroughly I'd throw it in the ring.

 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2024 - 4:13 AM   
 By:   Wedge   (Member)

Oh, and a question...was this the first horror film score to use a child's lullaby approach? Since so many horror films after it did, I wonder if this one started it?

Cat People 1942
The Bad Seed 1956
The Innocents 1961


You can perhaps add DRAGONWYCK (1946) to that list. Most would not classify it as a horror film per se, but it has a pronounced Gothic element, with a ghostly lullaby that accompanies Vincent Price's descent into madness.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2024 - 6:17 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

David is on a bumping rampage recently! smile

I love it when people respond to old posts as if it were yesterday (in this case a post from 17 years ago).

 
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