caveinspiredmusic.com FILM MUSIC HORROR _____________________________________ FM-HR1 United States 2004 ANACONDAS: THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID – THE CAVERN Soundtrack – Orchestral – Instrumental Comp: Nerida TYSON-CHEW Scr. (Film): John Claflin, Daniel Zelman, Michael Miner, & Edward Neumeier (from story by Hans Bauer, Jim Cash, & Jack Epps Jr.) Perf: STUDIO ORCHESTRA OF SYDNEY Cond: Dir. (Film): Dwight H. Little, 2004 Prod. Co. (Film): Screen Gems & Middle Fork Productions Prod. Co. (Disc): Time: 6:29 A. American CD: ANACONDAS – THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID Varèse Sarabande VSD 302 066 607-2 (Tk 18) B. German CD: ANACONDAS – THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID N. TYSON-CHEW Colosseum VSD 6607 (Tk 18) Notes: A horror-thriller movie set in the Borneo jungle. “With no more material to make another raft, they [Cole, Bill & others] bushwack through the jungle to beat Jack to the orchids and retrieve their raft. On the way they fall into a cave trying to escape an anaconda. Cole gets lost and panics after finding a skeleton. He runs into Bill's partner, Tran, and as they return to the others, Tran gets pulled under and Cole tries to find him but all he sees is Tran's lost flashlight floating. Tran is eaten by an anaconda underwater. Bill tries to find Cole and Tran but also notices Tran's lost flashlight floating but with his blood surrounded by it. The terrified Cole escapes the caves behind the group seconds ahead of the snake.” (Anon. 2016) The score is centered around ethnic elements of Borneo with flute and percussion. One critc commented on some cues in the score, including this one – “There are some ear-shattering moments of dissonance in “It’s Mating Season”, “The Cavern” and others, and the rhythmic string work and bleating brasses all sound great in context, but in the bigger scheme of things it’s really nothing we haven’t heard a million times before.” (Broxton 2004) Another critic continued in the same vein – “’The Cavern’ is full of a sense of brooding foreboding, coupled with the occasional flash of action, and is a step up from the ‘suspense scoring 101’ we hear a lot these days.” (Southall n.d.) The 30-second sample starts with a warping electronic horn surge then tapers off to rat-a-tat rhythms and heavy beating ensemble. Most of the filming was done in the Fiji Islands. Ref: Anon. 2016, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Plot, Wikipedia Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Film Credits, imdb Broxton, Jonathan 2004, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid CD, Review, moviemusicuk.us Nerida Tyson-Chew, Bio, Australian Music Centre, australianmusiccentre Nerida Tyson-Chew, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid CD, deezer (◄AUDIO SAMPLE)
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FILM MUSIC
HORROR
_____________________________________ FM-HR1 United States 2004
ANACONDAS: THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID –
THE CAVERN Soundtrack – Orchestral – Instrumental
Comp: Nerida TYSON-CHEW Scr. (Film): John Claflin, Daniel Zelman, Michael Miner, & Edward Neumeier (from story by Hans Bauer, Jim Cash, & Jack Epps Jr.)
Perf: STUDIO ORCHESTRA OF SYDNEY Cond: Dir. (Film): Dwight H. Little, 2004 Prod. Co. (Film): Screen Gems & Middle Fork Productions Prod. Co. (Disc): Time: 6:29 A. American CD: ANACONDAS – THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID Varèse Sarabande VSD 302 066 607-2 (Tk 18) B. German CD: ANACONDAS – THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID N. TYSON-CHEW Colosseum VSD 6607 (Tk 18)
Notes: A horror-thriller movie set in the Borneo jungle. “With no more material to make another raft, they [Cole, Bill & others] bushwack through the jungle to beat Jack to the orchids and retrieve their raft. On the way they fall into a cave trying to escape an anaconda. Cole gets lost and panics after finding a skeleton. He runs into Bill's partner, Tran, and as they return to the others, Tran gets pulled under and Cole tries to find him but all he sees is Tran's lost flashlight floating. Tran is eaten by an anaconda underwater. Bill tries to find Cole and Tran but also notices Tran's lost flashlight floating but with his blood surrounded by it. The terrified Cole escapes the caves behind the group seconds ahead of the snake.” (Anon. 2016) The score is centered around ethnic elements of Borneo with flute and percussion. One critc commented on some cues in the score, including this one – “There are some ear-shattering moments of dissonance in “It’s Mating Season”, “The Cavern” and others, and the rhythmic string work and bleating brasses all sound great in
context, but in the bigger scheme of things it’s really nothing we haven’t heard a million times before.” (Broxton 2004) Another critic continued in the same vein – “’The Cavern’ is full of a sense of brooding foreboding, coupled with the occasional flash of action, and is a step up from the ‘suspense scoring 101’ we hear a lot these days.” (Southall n.d.) The 30-second sample starts with a warping electronic horn surge then tapers off to rat-a-tat rhythms and heavy beating ensemble. Most of the filming was done in the Fiji Islands. Ref: Anon. 2016, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Plot, Wikipedia Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Film Credits, imdb Broxton, Jonathan 2004, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid CD, Review, moviemusicuk.us Nerida Tyson-Chew, Bio, Australian Music Centre, australianmusiccentre Nerida Tyson-Chew, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid CD, deezer (◄AUDIO SAMPLE)
Nerida Tyson-Chew, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid CD, Allmusic (◄AUDIO SAMPLE) Nerida Tyson-Chew, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid CD, Discogs Southall, James n.d., Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid CD, Review, movie-wave
_____________________________________ FM-HR2 United States 1979
DRACULA –
MEETING IN THE CAVE THE BAT ATTACK Soundtrack – Orchestral – Instrumental Comp: John WILLIAMS Rts: (US) Duchess Music Corp. (BMI) Scr. (Film): W.D. Richter (Based on stage play by Hamilton Deane & John Balderston – From novel by Bram Stoker)
Perf: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Cond: John WILLIAMS
Dir. (Film): John Badham, 1979 Prod. Co. (Film): Universal Pictures & The Mirisch Corp. Prod. (Disc): John Williams Prod. Co: Walter Mirisch-John Badham Production Liner Notes: John Badham Time: (Bd 2) 3:29 & (Bd 3) 2:46 J. WILLIAMS A. American Releases: 1. LP: DRACULA MCA MCA-3166 2. Reissue CD: DRACULA (1990)
Verèse Sarabande VSD-5250 B. Canadian LP: DRACULA MCA MCA-3166 C. British LP: DRACULA MCA MCF 3018 D. French LP: DRACULA Arabella Eurodisc MCA 201 275 E. West German LP: DRACULA (1979) MCA 0062.135 & MCA 225 087-1 F. Italian LP: DRACULA MCA 4058 G. Japanese LP: DRACULA MCA VIM 7257 Spec: (All LPs) 12" 33rpm (Sd 2 – Bd 2 & 3) Notes: An analysis by Kenneth Sundberg goes into nice detail about the various scenes in this movie and the music that corresponds. However, there is considerable confusion, perhaps due in part to translating from a Finnish text, wherein there seems to be two different cave scenes and two different bat attack scenes. MEEETING IN THE CAVE (Scene) – “A vampire woman, escaping from a murder scene, throws herself through a window. And when Professor Van Helsing (played excellently by Laurence Olivier) confronts the same creature in a dark, water-dripping cave, the result is one of the most shocking scenes in Dracula movies… At “night Van Helsing takes Arthur Holmwood, Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris with him to the graveyard where Lucy is buried - and thus begins ‘Meeting in the Cave.’ In the misty, quiet graveyard the men gather outside the Westenra tomb and witness the un-dead Lucy emerge from the misty darkness with the grotesque underscore. They force Lucy to retreat into the tomb, where she is staked through the heart and given eternal peace… “At Dr. Seward’s sanitarium on the shore, Mina sees the schooner through her room’s window (the moment is beautifully captured by Williams in the beginning of ‘Meeting in the Cave’). The wolf, with his
appropriately savage cue, leaps from the shipwrecked schooner and runs inside a cave. Mina finds her way into the cave, meets Count Dracula (who was the wolf), and falls under his spell.” (Sundberg 2010) MEEETING IN THE CAVE (Music) – begins very quietly with harp and violins then starts to build to a strident theme on violins. It keeps building in intensity until the brass and pounding drums bring in a new theme. Then the mood quiets down with horn and bassoon at slow tempo.
THE BAT ATTACK (Scene) – “The entire team spends the night in the house adjoining Dr. Seward's asylum. Mina and Jonathan are already sleeping in the master bedroom, while a horrible scream from the asylum alerts everyone else at the first stroke of ‘The Bat Attack.’ Renfield, the very eccentric fly-eater, is found nearly dead in his cell… “As Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker try to hunt down Dracula at Carfax Abbey, the Count uses his bat form again. With this specific scene John Williams uses some of his most frightening music material, as the MCA album's ‘Bat Attack’ demonstrates. For [one] reason or another, the final movie scene uses very little of Williams' obvious underscore. The second part of the "Bat Attack" album version, however, has very little to do with bats. In an underground lair Dr. Van Helsing confronts his undead daughter, in the movie’s most impressive and shocking scene. During a struggle Mina is impaled on a stake held by Van Helsing - and she dies into the arms of her shocked father. The second part of MCA album's "Bat Attack" presents the underscore to this memorable scene. (Sundberg 2010) THE BAT ATTACK (Music) – starts with fast, fussy rhythms behind trombone, then the theme is carried by violins and brass which build to crescendo followed by sweeping ensemble passages that dart back and forth. Switch to low calm passage then high-pitched squeaks over erratic violins. Mellow woodwinds return to a quiet theme and a menacing fade out. One anonymous critic had this to say about both cues – “’Meeting in the Cave’ is of somewhat lesser interest, though it features a brief, small-scale brass march at 1:36 that is faintly echoed at the beginning of the following cue yet never reappears after that. ‘The Bat Attack,’ though it features a minor crescendo of trembling, high-pitched strings near its start, is largely dissonant and is easily the most traditional horror piece on the album. Possibly because of the main theme’s absence, these two cues are the score’s weakest.” (Anon. n.d.) Exterior locations were primarily in Cornwall, England and some scenes were done at Tintagel where there is a large sea cave. John Williams also did the score for Lost in Space, 1999 and Star Wars – The Emperor Strikes Back, 1980 (for both films see under Science Fiction). Ref: Anon. n.d., Dracula – John Williams, moviemusicmania De Moor, John; Mangodt, Daniël; Pecqueriaux, Jean-Pierre; & Yoshijima, Naoki, Filmography/ Discography: John Williams, Soundtrack, v. 4, n. 15, Sept. 1985, p. 20 Dracula (1979), Film Credits, imdb Dracula (1979 film), Plot, Wikipedia John Williams, Bio, Wikipedia John Williams, The Bat Attack, (2:42), YouTube (◄INCOMPLETE AUDIO SAMPLE) John Williams, Meeting in the Cave, (3:23), YouTube (◄INCOMPLETE AUDIO SAMPLE) John Williams, Dracula LP & CDs, Discogs Sundberg, Kenneth 2010, Dracula 1979, Plot & Music, kennetti.fi
_____________________________________ FM-HR3 United States 1981
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP –
THE GROTTO * Soundtrack – Orchestral – Instrumental
Comp: James HORNER Scr. (Film): Frederick James (From story by Frank Arnold & Martin B. Cohen)
Perf: (Studio Orchestra)
Cond: (?) Dir. (Film): Barbara Peeters [aka. Barbara Peters]
& Jimmy T. Murakami, 1980 Prod. Co. (Film): New World Pictures Prod. Co.(Disc): New World Productions J. HORNER
2. Reissue on Compilation Bootleg CD: BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS/ HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (2000) Star SCD-98427 (Tk 27) 3. Reissue on Compilation CD: BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS/ HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (2001) GNP Crescendo 8075 (Tk 27) Notes: California sea monster ichthyoids attack various people. Jim, Dr. Drake, and Johnny, go on a fishing trip and land on a beach where they
are attacked by the humanoids near a sea cave. Johnny gets dragged out to sea by one of the humanoids, but Jim shoots and saves him. Dr. Drake notices a human leg sticking out from a pile of seaweed. Another monster rushes out of the seaweed and Johnny shoots it with his spear gun. The body under the seaweed is a girl whom they take back to Dr. Drake’s lab. There she tells her theory that the local fish cannery was experimenting with a new growth hormone on groups of trout. Some trout escaped, were maybe eaten by ancient coelacanths, and then evolved into the bloodthirsty ichthyoids. (Anon. n.d.)
McClure, Drake, & Morrow in front of caves The action of this film takes place at Noyo Bay near Fort Bragg, California and there are a few sea caves on the beach there. The 30-second sample had a repeated whooshing synth with tink-tink sounds transform into a low roar then come back fortissimo. James Horner also wrote the score for “Krull” (1983) (see under Science Fiction films). Ref: Anon. n.d., Humanoids from the Deep, (No longer online), geocities.com Beaches at Fort Bragg, California Beaches, californiabeaches Humanoids from the Deep, Plot, Wikipedia Humanoids from the Deep, LP & CDs, soundtrackcollector Humanoids from the Deep, Internet Movie Database, imdb James Horner, Bio, Wikipedia James Horner, Battle beyind the Stars/ Humanoids from the Deep CD, Allmusic (◄AUDIO SAMPLE) James Horner, Humanoids from the Deep LP, Allmusic James Horner, Humanoids from the Deep LP, Discogs
LP: L’ISOLA DEGLI UOMINI PESCE (PC-IM) Cometa Edizione Musicali CMT 1009-21
12” 33rpm (Sd 2 – Bd 5) Notes: This was a limited pressing of only 500 numbered copies and the other LP and later CD releases of this film music do not include this cue. The US title of this horror film was “Screamers.” A recluse doctor uses the protection of an uncharted island to perform biological experiments, creating the perfect hybrid of human and fish that will be able to survive any world disaster. The underground laboratory of the mad doctor was in a natural cave and the cave used for the scenes was the Grotte di Nettuno, at Capo Caccia near Alghero, Sardinia. In a compilation edit a man swims and climbs on a sail boat in the cave and is captured by Edmond Rackham & natives. Rackham and his guest, Claude de Ross, walk through the decorated cave to a dock where they climb down into a diving bell that takes them to another cave where the fish monsters work in the water. They both go to the boat near the cave entrance and Rackham shows him the gold treasure in the hold. Switch to – the fishmen monsters who attack. Rackham shoots at them to protect the girl, Amanda. A
stalactite falls and kills one monster; then a bunch of them grab a native in the water. Rackham & Amanda escape. Go to – Amanda & Claude at the top of a pit. He throws down a rope and shinnies down to the sail boat. Fishman tries to grab him. He boards the boat and Amanda climbs down. They start to unmoor the boat. Rackham jumps on board, grabs the girl and holds a knife. She gets away. There’s a fight. Rackham falls overboard and is
attacked by a fishmen. Boulders start to fall from a ceiling hole, smashing the mast. Then the clip fades to partial end credits. A 30-second music sample had continuous vibrating, scintillating synth passages. Ref: Brown, K.H. 2008, Island of the Fishmen, Synopsis & Comments, giallo-fever.blogspot.fr Grotte di Nettuno, Official Site, grottedinettuno.it Grotte di Nettuno, Data, Show Caves of the World, showcaves Island of the Fishmen, Plot, Wikipedia L’Isola degli uomini pesce, Sound Track Collector, soundtrackcollector L’Isola degli uomini pesce, 2007 CD Reissue, Allmusic (◄AUDIO SAMPLE) L’Isola degli uomini pesce, Internet Movie Database, imdb L’Isola degli uomini pesce, Scenes in Grotte di Nettuno, Film Alghero, (10:13), YouTube (◄VIDEO SAMPLE) Luciano Michelini, Bio (in German), Wikipedia Luciano Michelini, L’Isola degli uomini pesce LP, Discogs Luciano Michelini, L’Isola degli uomini pesce, Plot & Music Critic (in English & Italian), cometaedizionimusicali.it Van de Ven, Luc 1982, Screamers, A Second Opinion, Soundtrack, n. 1, Mar. 1982, p. 29
_____________________________________________________ FM-HR5 United States 1975
KING KONG –
THE CAVE AND THE SNAKE Film Music – Orchestral – Instrumental
Comp: Max STEINER Arr: Paul Swain Scr. (Film): James Creelman & Ruth Rose (From story by M.C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace & Leon Gordon)
Cond: LeRoy HOLMES Dir. (Film): Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933 Prod. Co. (Film): Radio Keith Orpheum Co. Prod. Co. (Disc): United Artists Records Liner Notes: Ray Bradbury Time: 2:52 LP: KING KONG (1976) United Artists EA-373 H (mono) United Artists UA-LA 373-G (stereo) 12" 33rpm (Sd 2 – Bd 2) Notes: Without a doubt the most famous cave horror scene in the history of cinema. King Kong takes Ann to his huge mountain cave and sets her down on a ledge. She is menaced by a snake-like Elasmosaurus. Kong wrestles with it and it strangles him, but he succeeds in smashing it on the floor. During the fight, Driscoll arrives (on right, stage left) from another entrance. Kong takes Ann up a sloping ledge to the upper cave entrance. There on the entrance ledge, “while Kong is distracted killing a Pteranodon that tried to fly away with Ann, Driscoll reaches her and they climb down a vine dangling from a cliff ledge.” (Anon. 2016)
Kong fights snake as Anne watches Kong’s victory – Two cave entrances Upper cave entrance
This was the first of three recorded versions of the score for King Kong (see just below).
Ref: Anon. 2016, King Kong (1933 film), Plot, Wikipedia King Kong, Film Credits, imdb King Kong, The Cave Scene with Snake, (2:24), criticalcommons (◄AUDIO-VIDEO SAMPLE) King Kong (Soundtrack), Different versions, soundtrackcollector LeRoy Holmes, Bio, Wikipedia Max Steiner, Bio, Wikipedia Max Steiner, King Kong LP, Discogs
_____________________________________ FM-HR6 United Kingdom 1976
KING KONG –
THE CAVE Film Music – Orchestral – Instrumental
Comp: Max STEINER Arr: Bernard Kaun & Christopher Palmer Rts: J. Albert & Sons (ASCAP) Scr. (Film): James Creelman & Ruth Rose (From story by M.C. Cooper & Edgar Wallace)
Perf: THE NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Cond: Fred STEINER
Dir. (Film): Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933 Prod. Co. (Film): Prod. (Disc): John S. Lasher F. STEINER Prod. Co: Entr'acte Recording Society Inc.; Chicago, IL
Rec. Loc: St. Giles Church; London Liner Notes: (LP) John W. Morgan (CD) Fred Steiner & Fay Wray Time: (Nos. A1 & 2) Total – 9:30 & (No. B3) Total – 9:10 A. American Releases: 1. Original LP: KING KONG Southern Cross SCAR 5006 12" 33rpm (Sd 2 – Bd 2) 2. LP: KING KONG (1976) Entr'acte ERS-6504 (stereo) 12" 33rpm (Sd 2 – Bd 2) 3. Reissue on CD: KING KONG (1984) Southern Cross SCCD 901 (Tk 8) 4. Reissue on CD: KING KONG (1993) Label X LAXCD 10 (Tk 9) B. British Releases: 1. LP: KING KONG (1976) Entr'acte ERS-6504 (stereo) 12" 33rpm (Sd 2 – Bd 2) 2. Reissue LP: Scar 5006 12" 33rpm (Sd 2 – Bd 2) 3. Reissue LP: KING KONG (1988) Silva Screen FILM 013 12" 33rpm (Sd 2 – Bd 2) C. Australian Releases: 1. LP: KING KONG (1976) Southern Cross SCAR 5006 12" 33rpm (Sd 2 – Bd 2) 2. Reissue on CD: KING KONG (1984) Southern Cross SCCD 901 (Tk 8) 3. Compilation CD: MAX STEINER AT THE MOVIES (1996) Fifth Continent Music Classics Label “X” ATM CD 2005 (Tk 8) 4. Compilation CD: KING KONG/THIS IS CINERAMA/DEATH OF A SCOUNDREL (1999) Delta 21354 (Tk 8) Notes: This was the second version of the Max Steiner score. This cue accompanies the scene where Kong carries Ann Darrow to his cave that has an entrance in the side of the cliff. This particular cue is coupled on the track with another cue, “Kong ! / The Cave.” The conductor, Fred Steiner, was not related to the composer, Max Steiner. Ref: Borie, Bertrand, L'Ecran Fantastique, n. 1, Juin-Juil.-Août 1977, p. 126 Fred Steiner, Bio, Wikipedia Fred Steiner, King Kong 1976 LP, Discogs Fred Steiner, King Kong 1984 LP, Discogs & 1984 CD, Discogs King Kong, The Cave Scene with Snake, (2:24), criticalcommons King Kong (Soundtrack), Different versions, soundtrackcollector Max Steiner, Bio, chelsearialtostudios Romer, Jean-Claude, Midi-Minuit Fantastique, n. 6, Juin 1963, Paris, p. 61
_____________________________________ FM-HR7 United States 1997
KING KONG –
THE CAVE Film Music – Orchestral – Instrumental
Comp: Max STEINER Scr. (Film): James Creelman & Ruth Rose (From story by M.C. Cooper & Edgar Wallace)
Dir. (Film): Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933 Prod. Co. (Film): Radio Keith Orpheum Co. Prod. Co. (Disc): Marco Polo Records Liner Notes: Time: Total – 4:39 1. CD: KING KONG Marco Polo 8.223763 (Tk 13) 2. Reissue CD: KING KONG (2005) Naxos 8.557700 (Tk 13) Notes: This was the third version of the Max Steiner score. This particular cue is coupled on the track with another cue, “Stolen Love/ The Cave.” The 30-second audio sample had Ref: King Kong (Soundtrack), Different versions, soundtrackcollector Max Steiner, King Kong, Naxos CD, Marco Polo, Amazon (◄AUDIO SAMPLE) Max Steiner, King Kong CD, Marco Polo, free.fr Max Steiner, King Kong CD, Naxos, (Tk 13), CDUniverse (◄AUDIO SAMPLE) Max Steiner, King Kong CD, Naxos, naxos William Stromberg, Bio, tributefilmclassics
_____________________________________________________ FM-HR8 United States 1959
THE MOLE PEOPLE –
TREACHEROUS TREK Film Music – Orchestral – Instrumental
Comp: Hans J. SALTER Scr. (Film): László Görög (as Laszlo Gorog) H. SALTER
Scr. (Narr.): Mort Goode Photo by Bob Burns
Perf: Dick JACOBS & his orchestra Nar: Bob McFadden Dir. (Film): Virgil Vogel, 1956 Prod. Co (Film): Universal International Pictures Co. Inc. Liner Notes: (US) Mort Goode (FR) Alain Schlockoff & Bernard Borie Time: 3:12 A. American LP: THEMES FROM HORROR MOVIES Coral CRL 57240 (mono) Coral CRL 757240 (stereo) B. British LP: THEMES FROM HORROR MOVIES Coral LVA 9102 (mono) C. Reissue on French LP: LES GRANDES THEMES DU CINÉMA FANTASTIQUE ET DE SCIENCE FICTION
(1977) MCA 410.064 Spec: (All) 12” 33rpm (Sd 1 – Bd 4) Notes: A selection of the music from the 1956 Universal-International cave film about a lost civilization that lives beneath the Himalayas in a huge cave system and holds the hunchbacked mole men in slavery. In a the morbid tone, the narrator introduces the piece – Before you plan other trips see the earth first inside and out. There is beauty and dark adventure deep within it. See the mole people. You'll be pleasantly shocked. Feel their claws run up and down your spine. You'll dig it the most. They'll dig you too. Even the music of the mole people will get you. Melancholic violins and woodwinds create a strange atmosphere. Then the brass builds to a dramatic peak.
The movie ad poster for "The Mole People" is reproduced on the jacket cover along with seven other posters of the films whose music is also included on this album. Comments on the score – “One of the finest assets of The Mole People is its musical score, composed by Heinz Roemheld, Hans J. Salter, and Herman Stein, and orchestrated by Universal’s main man, David Tamkin… Heinz Roemheld wrote about 30 minutes of the 46-minute score, with Hans Salter adding about 12 minutes, and the remaining 4 minutes being contributed by Herman Stein.” (Anon. 2016b) Ref: Anon. 2016a, The Mole People, The Film, Monstrous Movie Music,
mmmrecordings Anon. 2016b, The Mole People, The Music, Monstrous Movie Music, mmmrecordings
Dick Jacobs & His Orchestra, Themes from Horror Movies LP, Discogs Hans J. Salter, Bio, Wikipedia Hans J. Salter, The Mole People: Treacherous Trek, (3:12), remixm (◄COMPLETE AUDIO SAMPLE) The Mole People, Film Credits, imdb The Mole People, Plot, Wikipedia
_____________________________________ FM-HR9 United States 1990
NIGHTWING –
MAIN TITLE Film Music – Orchestral – Instrumental
Comp. & Arr: Henry MANCINI Rts: BMG Music Scr. (Film): Steve Shagan, Bud Shrake, & Martin Cruz Smith
(Based on book by Martin Cruz Smith)
Perf: MANCINI POPS ORCHESTRA Cond: Henry MANCINI Dir. (Film): Arthur Hiller, 1979 Prod. Co. (Film): Polyc International BV Prod. (Disc): John McClure Prod. Co: BMG Classics; New York, NY Rec. Co: CTS Studios; Wembley Rec. Date: April 17-19, 1990 Liner Notes: Tony Thomas Time: 3:18 A. American Releases: 1. CD: MANCINI IN SURROUND RCA Victor 60471-2 RC (Tk 13) 2. Single CD: MANCINI’S MONSTER HITS (1990) RCA Victor 60577-2-RV (Tk 3) B. British CD: MANCINI IN SURROUND (1990)
RCA Victor RD 60471 (Tk 13) C. German CD: MANCINI IN SURROUND (1990)
RCA Victor RD 60471 (Tk 13) Notes: A ridiculous horror movie about vicious hordes of vampire bats in southern New Mexico that attack livestock and humans. An incongruous plot shot through with pseudo-science and false, detrimental fantasies about bats. Mancini composed an effective main title where harp runs ripple out, the piccolo soars around overhead, then the strings lower the tone to a somber level. The harp returns to back the flute as it works out a lonesome melody. The single CD, Mancini’s Monster Hits, is limited-edition collector's item (with glow-in-the-dark cover), whici only contains approximately 15 minutes worth of music. In 2009 the Varèse Sarabande label released a limited edition CD, “Nightwing,” with 23 selections from the original score.
Ref: Elhaïk, Serge & Mangodt, Daniël, A Filmography /Discography of Henry Mancini, Soundtrack, v. 9, n. 35, Sept. 1990, p. 42 Henry Mancini, Bio, Wikipedia Henry Mancini, Mancini in Surround CD, Discogs Henry Mancini, Mancini’s Monster Hits CD, Allmusic Nightwing, Various Releases, soundtrackcollector Nightwing, Film Credits, imdb Nightwing (film), Plot, Wikipedia Nightwing, Wretched Monster Movies #13, chudbeagleblog.wordpress
IN DER HÖHLE DES ALTEN O. Soundtrack – Free Jazz – Experimental – Vocal & Instrumental Comp: Colin DUNWOODIE, Silvia SAUER, Ernst SEITZ, & Christoph WÜSTENHAGEN Scr. (Film): Ludwig Nertz (From book by Maurice Renard)
Perf: SOME OTHER TRIO Colin Dunwoodie (tenor sax)
Silvia Sauer (voice) Ernst Seitz (piano) Dir. (Film): Robert Weine, 1924 Prod. Co. (Film): Pan Film; Vienna &
Berolina Film GmbH Prod. Co. (Disc): Bellaphon International Liner Notes: Colin Dunwoodie SEITZ DUNWOODIE SAUER
(Translated to English by David Holland) Time: 4:40 CD: A TALE OF THREE DUCKS L+R Music CDLR 45109 (Tk 4)
Notes: As part of the Metropolis Projekts in 1994 this music cue was written specially for a silent film, “Orlacs Hände (The Hands of Orlac).” The original 1924 Austrian-German film, starring Conrad Veidt, is a horror classic that tells of a concert pianist who loses his hands in an accident and has other hands transplanted from a recently executed murderer. This cue, extracted from the soundtrack and entitled “In the Cave of the Old Os,” is rather ambiguous and it is not known if there are any scenes in this movie involving caves. The music starts with weird guttural frog-like croaks, vocalizing, bird chirps, and other strange sounds, then a few piano chords follow by tenor sax free meanderings, more squeals and cries, getting frantic. A pause and then a return to the frog croaks and
calls with more sax stuff to fade out. Ref: Colin Dunwoodie, Bio (in German), renateermel.de & Wikipedia Kliebhan, Bernd 1998, Speläo Musik, (Unpublished list of recorded cave music), p. 3 Orlacs Hände, Film Credits, imdb Orlacs Hände, (in German), Wikipedia & The Hands of Orlac (1924 film), Plot, (in English), Wikipedia Some Other Trio, A Tale of Three Ducks CD, Amazon (◄AUDIO SAMPLE) Some Other Trio, A Tale of Three Ducks CD, musik-sammler.de
Cond: (?) Dir. (Film): Sergio Stivaletti, 2004 Prod. Co. (Film): Apocalypse FX & Password Prod. Co. (Disc): Warner Electra Atlantic Corp. Time: 1:52 CD: I TRE VOLTI DEL TERRORE
Warner Chappell Music Italiana 5050467716827 (Tk 23) Notes: This Italian horror film (“Three Faces of Terror”) consisted of three sketches – 1. L’anello della luna; 2. Dr. Lifting; 3. Il guardino del lago (The Guardian of the Lake). This cue (“Cave Monster”) probably was used in the third sketch. Regarding this third chapter one Italian reviewer said – “L’ultimo capitolo (Il Guardiano del Lago) segna il ritorno, dopo decenni (credo di poter dire), al “monster movie” nostrano con una sorta di drago tentacolare che sembra uscito dai fantasy degli anni 60’.” (Mancini 2008) [The final chapter (The Guardian of the Lake) marks the return, after decades (think I can say), of the home-grown "monster movie" with a sort of sprawling dragon that looks like it came from the fantasy of the 60s'] Where there’s a dragon there might well be a cave; the title of this cue being, “The Cave of the Monster.” The 30-second sample had a few swathes of synth followed by a horn chord. Ref: I tre volti del terrore, Film Credits, imdb & imdb Mancini, Matteo 2008, I tre volti del terrore, Review (in Italian), latelanera Maurizio Abeni, I tre volti del terrore CD, filmmusicsite Maurizio Abeni, I tre volti del terrore, 2011 CD, amazon.it (◄AUDIO SAMPLE) Maurizio Abeni, I tre volti del terrore, prestoclassical.co.uk (◄AUDIO SAMPLE)
