@@killertrip10 This. The metallica song is obviously great, but every time i would watch that intro i would think of metallica instead of the movie. This theme is part of the identity of the movie and it's important. I have seen the movie 20 or more times and to be honest i am glad that it's not Enter Sandman, since it is so stale nowadays and overused to death. If things would've been different we would have missed out on this banger of a theme.
The greatest horror within the film was the protagonist finding out he was trapped in a twisted work of fiction, within a work of fiction, with no way out and no will of his own, left to ride along till the screen cut to black.
Also Dario Argento tried to do this in late 80's and early 90's films, but without success. The songs I remember resulted so out of tune. Goblin all the way
Movies with similar ideas have never done well. "Wes Craven's New Nightmare." "I, Madman" "The Dark Half." "Final Girls." Jojo's Bizarre Adventure even has a character who has the stand, Bohemian Rhapsody, that does essentially what Sutter Cane does in this movie.
It's my favorite Carpenter movie for sure. Of course his other classics are great and rightfully so are legendary genre movies, but for me... it was always this movie. First and foremost because of the acting by Neill and Prochnow, the Plot, atmosphere and music.
True. I'm an old-school Team Silent-era Silent Hill fan (I don't care for anything after The Room), but I have to say I like this more then anything Yamaoka ever did. Maybe because it is fun. And most of ALL soundtracks Akira made for Silent Hill are not fun, they are appropriately moody, tragic and really, really depressing if you listen to them too long.
@@BernardoFernandinoDellaCosasti Hitler wasnt a good writer, i had to wrote,, mein Kampf" (my fight) in school. Horrible, there is 1 sentence about 3 or 4 lines and you still caught nothing...
"Don't distribute it. Even if what I say is totally Looney Tunes, I know this book will drive people crazy." "Let's hope so. The movie comes out next month."
Criminally underrated,this is one of the best horror films ever! (very influenced for the undisputed literature's king of horror H.P. Lovecraft).It's a shame that few people really appreciate this masterpiece.
John Carpenter is just very underrated. Starman, The Thing, Assault on the predict 13, The Fog, Christine, The village of the damned, Dark Star, Halloween, Escape from New York, Escape from Los Angeles, Vampires, Big trouble in little China, all and everyone of this movies are just cult movies, filled of philosophical messages and made with a high visual quality and great direction, elegant and with the best cinematic language. The most of them are unknown (except Halloween, of course), also in fact unknown for the "specific movie criticals". The life is just unjustly. I find, for an example, Tarantino is always on the top of the best critics like Del Toro, but for those that have seen every thing from Del Toro, Tarantino and Carpenter and also analyzed the movies, we know that Carpenter is simply a best director, without pretending, just a better director. It is just ignorance, the audience doesn't really know the works from Carpenter deeply. So is the life. Audiences like blowfish and colors. Cheers!
Can't believe I've been missing out on this film for such a long time... it's incredible. If you're fan of Stephen King or H.P. Lovecraft's fiction, this is the movie you're looking for.
This track is actually a co-write by John Carpenter, Jim Lang and Dave Davies, the guitarist of The Kinks. It is Dave playing the lead guitar. Dave collaborated with John Carpenter several times. If you go on just about any Kinks video on TH-cam, you will get bored with all the comments about how underrated the band were - which is pretty much rubbish given their current status (especially in the UK) and the knighthood awarded to Ray Davies a few years ago. That said, Dave IS a seriously underrated guitarist.
Wow, no way! I just watched this film for the first time and thought this music was epic, then I found this video, read your comment and now It’s even sweeter knowing that this was done by Dave Davies from The Kinks, one of my favourite bands. No wonder I liked it, a collaboration between two of my favourite legends: John Carpenter and Dave.
@Josh Allen Yeah yeah, I was trying for a Jay Bauman thing there. But now that's fucked so, I guess the only thing left is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIDS!!!
I'm convinced critics just had it out for John Carpenter. I mean, most if not all of his movies are considered classics now. Some are even considered the greatest of all time, but people seem to forget that his movies bombed almost every single time since Halloween.
I personally think that John was a master director and I love many of his films. Reason I say “was” is because he hasn’t really been active in terms of directing (I know he’s done some scoring for the Halloween franchise and some stuff for video games) since “The Ward” in about 2010. As @dedley01 said, John was ahead of his time. Nothing else like Halloween, ITMOM, Prince Of Darkness and others were coming out around their respective periods. His directing style was revolutionary, interesting, creative and unique, imho.
His movies were very much like the man himself. Not a lot of flash, flourish, pomp, pretension, or frills. John is always a pretty straight-forward guy, a blue collar kind of director, he does enough to get the job done, keeps it simple, and that's it. That kind of person isn't going to win awards or grab headlines, but he has a way of getting under your skin, of being the steady presence in the room, you learn to appreciate his no-bullshit candor. Unfortunately, the kind of reputation doesn't happen immediately, and I think that's why John's movies always initially suffered but then slowly but surely gained a loyal following.
You can just feel the Old Ones coming for you in the beat of the guitar riff and in the credits it works GREAT to the rhythm of the printing press for the book itself.
Never ever gets old :) One of Carpenters best with some bizarre, creepy twists. Love this movie...and the 90's was a kick ass decade for rock-oriented movie soundtracks (The Crow, In The Mouth of Madness, Vampires...and I know there are others I am forgetting. Pardon, I was very young, lol). Thanks for posting it! :D
I think this is with Starman, The Thing and Assault on precinct 13 the best Carpenter's movie. In the mouth of madness is a very underrated and unfortenately very unknown movie, thats a pity. But someday, Carpenter will be recognized as the great filmmaker that in fact he is. And hopefully he will give us soon another one great movie!!! As Starman said: Greetings!!!
@@countryboyblue21 Totally...I shock a lot of people when I tell them that, they always go, "No way! GTFO!" lol. Two of my favorites, Neil and Christensen: I gotta get this back into our library, I miss watching it!
This sounds like the music that the "bad kid" would listen to when he rolled up to school in an early 90s tv show. Like "uh oh, here comes Biff Donglus! I hear he ties cat's tails together!"
Love this theme song and movie. Saw it in ‘95 at the age of 15! One of the best cinema going experiences I’ve ever had! I’m from Toronto where this film was shot. I live near Unionville (aka Hobb’s End). I even have a few videos on my channel where I filmed in that town. Every time I go there I can’t help but to think of this incredible horror film. IMO, the best movie to evoke the Lovecraftian horror/weirdness atmosphere. It’s a masterpiece! Damn this theme song rocks out good! 🤟🏻
What an excellent movie! Superb acting, a haunting story, a classic, unsettling atmosphere. This is a true horror film. It's too bad not many movies today can live to these standards. Thanks for posting this theme song. :)
Yes I agree, the beginning shares similar tune to Dario Argento's Tenebrae, the track Lesbos. The reason for this I'm sure is even noted by John Carpenter that Argento's films have absolutely contributed to his work. I imagine he loved the tune and reworked it, i love this track!
To the people who haven't seen the movie and have only heard this song, don't give up on it yet. I love this track cause I thinks its implementation into the movie is fucking hilarious, but trust me the rest of the movie is nothing like the feel of this song. Its up there with Carpenter's best in my opinion, and I think anyone would enjoy it as a trippy lovecraftian kinda horror movie. And its become one of my favorites ever as a result.
Critical Drinker recommended me this film, then the epic guitar music instantly caught my attention and brought me here. Unbeknownst to me though, that this was done by both John Carpenter and Dave Davies from The Kinks (one of my favourite bands). No wonder I liked it, a collaboration between two legends.
Great theme. And with social media, our reality has essentially become In the Mouth of Madness. As Styles said, reality is just what we tell ourselves it is. The sane and the insane could just as easily swap places if the insane were to become a majority. Anymore it seems if you're one of the few humans alive today who hasn't been driven into cultlike madness by social media, you're like John Trent at the end of the movie, only looking on and laughing hysterically as you too lose your sanity as you watch the humans of your reality tear each other apart.
And we are seeing that. Mental illness (like dissociative identity disorder) has become the norm with people pretending to be something they aren’t. The insane are becoming the majority, it’s just not as violent as Sutter Cane thought it would be, yet.
An under-rated classic as well. Most people don't even understand that it serves as social commentary with the premise of people turning into monsters from reading books.
Such a beautifull song, so deeply emotional and powerfull. Always thinking about the crazy ending alone in the movie theater. This is brilliant. Impossible for me to get a proper ranking among Carpenter's films ... same issue with his movies' themes. Beside this one, Village of the Damned and Assault's themes are great ones too IMO. This should be the top three .Then maybe Fog, NY1997, Halloween ... What do you think ? I dont' know about Dark Star or Elvis (not seen yet). The latter's soundtrack could be a solid piece as well. JC never forgets about the script, JC never forgets about the spectator, JC never even forgets about social or politics, JC never forgets about the soundtrack and JC never forgets about the ending. Oh, I think I really do love JC :-P
Big Trouble in Little China. The Thing theme? It's so simple (like most of themes in Carpenter's movies), but it sets up the mood perfectly. and go and watch Dark Star, it's funny and good example how SF movies don't need huge FX if movie is witty and director has good eye.
Carpenter will always be THE king of horror and the offbeat genre picture. I mean fuck: Assault On Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Escape From New York, They Live, Big Trouble In Little China, Christine, Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness, Vampires......Either all are considered genuine classics or have a devout cult following. The man is a damn legend.
The guitar arpeggio at the beginning is eerily similar to the one in the song "Lesbo" by Goblin, from the soundtrack of the movie Tenebre by Dario Argento. ...but then again that song was also very similar to Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult, down to the cowbell in the background.
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Carpenter: "I want 'Enter Sandman.'"
Studio: "You can't have it."
Carpenter: "Yeah, well fuck you too."
I like Enter Sandman and all, but this song trumps it in my book.
@@killertrip10 This. The metallica song is obviously great, but every time i would watch that intro i would think of metallica instead of the movie. This theme is part of the identity of the movie and it's important. I have seen the movie 20 or more times and to be honest i am glad that it's not Enter Sandman, since it is so stale nowadays and overused to death. If things would've been different we would have missed out on this banger of a theme.
True dat!
John carpenter bro@@mrblonde609
The greatest horror within the film was the protagonist finding out he was trapped in a twisted work of fiction, within a work of fiction, with no way out and no will of his own, left to ride along till the screen cut to black.
Only John Carpenter can make a horror movie with a badass rock theme.
Also Dario Argento tried to do this in late 80's and early 90's films, but without success. The songs I remember resulted so out of tune. Goblin all the way
@@marianopace351 That scene in Phenomena when Iron Maiden starts playing is fucking hilarious.
The introduction is similar to Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
@@marianopace351 that's Why I loved Opera. Badass during murder scenes.
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I can’t understand how this movie is so underrated.
Its Lovecraftian
People. Lack. Omega. 3s. 🤫
it was literally everywhere at the time you millennial imbecile
Movies with similar ideas have never done well. "Wes Craven's New Nightmare." "I, Madman" "The Dark Half." "Final Girls." Jojo's Bizarre Adventure even has a character who has the stand, Bohemian Rhapsody, that does essentially what Sutter Cane does in this movie.
Ppl just rarely vibe to the concept of eldritch horror.
Underrated classic film
For damn sure it is! 'In The Mouth of Madness' & '28 Days Later' are favorite horrors of all time!
@@christallh24 28 days is very very hot too and very smart
Do you read Sutter Kane?
@@christallh24You have very good taste in horror👍
It's my favorite Carpenter movie for sure. Of course his other classics are great and rightfully so are legendary genre movies, but for me... it was always this movie. First and foremost because of the acting by Neill and Prochnow, the Plot, atmosphere and music.
I love the fact that this is a serious psychological horror movie and yet it has a badass rock music theme. Reminds me Silent Hill.
True. I'm an old-school Team Silent-era Silent Hill fan (I don't care for anything after The Room), but I have to say I like this more then anything Yamaoka ever did. Maybe because it is fun. And most of ALL soundtracks Akira made for Silent Hill are not fun, they are appropriately moody, tragic and really, really depressing if you listen to them too long.
A true one here@@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253
That is why John Carpenter is my favorite movie director. He is awesome musician.
well, that's a very bad reason to like a movie director. It's like saying "I love hitler because he is a good writer"
@@BernardoFernandinoDellaCosasti Hitler wasnt a good writer, i had to wrote,, mein Kampf" (my fight) in school. Horrible, there is 1 sentence about 3 or 4 lines and you still caught nothing...
Zaista!
@@BernardoFernandinoDellaCosasti he actually is a pretty good writer haha, ever heard of 'Mein Kampf' ?
@@TopGgamingclan No, but thanks for the recommendation, I just ordered it
Do you read Sutter Cane ?
Nah, I'll see the movie!
+tron012 WHoooooo haaaa .... KILLS! DEAD!!!!!!!!!1111!111!!!!!!
tron012 yes i read is me
Its my favorite book!!!
Not Cane, King. Classic King not New Wave King
"Enter Sandman In the Mouth of Madness" fucking ROCKS! Love John Carpenter's tracks.
+ terran ㅋㅋㅋ
It also seemed to me at first that carpenter outplayed enter sandman in his own way at the beginning of the film
Indeed. I've really come to dig what Carpenter's music adds to his movies.
"The world's ending. Let's rock out."
"You like the book?" - "Yes." - "Well, then this shouldn't come as a surprise-"
"Don't distribute it. Even if what I say is totally Looney Tunes, I know this book will drive people crazy."
"Let's hope so. The movie comes out next month."
Who else is here in 2024 just to hear this song???
Criminally underrated,this is one of the best horror films ever! (very influenced for the undisputed literature's king of horror H.P. Lovecraft).It's a shame that few people really appreciate this masterpiece.
John Carpenter is just very underrated. Starman, The Thing, Assault on the predict 13, The Fog, Christine, The village of the damned, Dark Star, Halloween, Escape from New York, Escape from Los Angeles, Vampires, Big trouble in little China, all and everyone of this movies are just cult movies, filled of philosophical messages and made with a high visual quality and great direction, elegant and with the best cinematic language. The most of them are unknown (except Halloween, of course), also in fact unknown for the "specific movie criticals". The life is just unjustly. I find, for an example, Tarantino is always on the top of the best critics like Del Toro, but for those that have seen every thing from Del Toro, Tarantino and Carpenter and also analyzed the movies, we know that Carpenter is simply a best director, without pretending, just a better director. It is just ignorance, the audience doesn't really know the works from Carpenter deeply. So is the life. Audiences like blowfish and colors. Cheers!
Can't believe I've been missing out on this film for such a long time... it's incredible. If you're fan of Stephen King or H.P. Lovecraft's fiction, this is the movie you're looking for.
"We have Enter Sandman at home"
But seriously this song rocks, the fact that it could pass for a track on the Black album is just awesome.
This track is actually a co-write by John Carpenter, Jim Lang and Dave Davies, the guitarist of The Kinks. It is Dave playing the lead guitar. Dave collaborated with John Carpenter several times.
If you go on just about any Kinks video on TH-cam, you will get bored with all the comments about how underrated the band were - which is pretty much rubbish given their current status (especially in the UK) and the knighthood awarded to Ray Davies a few years ago. That said, Dave IS a seriously underrated guitarist.
I agree that Dave is an underrated guitarist. I was unaware he's capable of shredding this way.
Wow, no way! I just watched this film for the first time and thought this music was epic, then I found this video, read your comment and now It’s even sweeter knowing that this was done by Dave Davies from The Kinks, one of my favourite bands. No wonder I liked it, a collaboration between two of my favourite legends: John Carpenter and Dave.
"John Carpenter going full Metallica"
-Jay Bauman
WHAAAAAT?!!
@Josh Allen Yeah yeah, I was trying for a Jay Bauman thing there. But now that's fucked so, I guess the only thing left is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIDS!!!
@Josh Allen Jesus Fucking Christ man, look up RedLetterMedia while you're on TH-cam. Did you even read the OP?
@Josh Allen th-cam.com/video/e6VNAcd1Dgs/w-d-xo.html 30:24 you fucking peasant
@Arsch Dee "trying to be Metallica"
Did I ever tell you my favorite color is blue?
VariusMayhem best scene
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
"Aw, look, I'm sorry about balls! IT WAS A LUCKY SHOT, THAT'S ALL!!!"
@@CopiousDoinksLLCYou hear me! I'M NOT INSANE!
This is not a Sutter Cane story this is not reality!
DAMN that guitar riff!
One of the greatest endings to a horror movie ever. This plays a part in that.
Sutter Cane he lives in all of us. He's everywhere watching you and making a story of your life till it drives you insane.
This may be oh so true. Chilling. :D
Well then let me say his writting la bullshit.
"You want to hear about my 'them'." John Carpenter, king of the horror one liners.
I'm convinced critics just had it out for John Carpenter.
I mean, most if not all of his movies are considered classics now. Some are even considered the greatest of all time, but people seem to forget that his movies bombed almost every single time since Halloween.
He was ahead of his time.
I personally think that John was a master director and I love many of his films. Reason I say “was” is because he hasn’t really been active in terms of directing (I know he’s done some scoring for the Halloween franchise and some stuff for video games) since “The Ward” in about 2010. As @dedley01 said, John was ahead of his time. Nothing else like Halloween, ITMOM, Prince Of Darkness and others were coming out around their respective periods. His directing style was revolutionary, interesting, creative and unique, imho.
His movies were very much like the man himself. Not a lot of flash, flourish, pomp, pretension, or frills. John is always a pretty straight-forward guy, a blue collar kind of director, he does enough to get the job done, keeps it simple, and that's it.
That kind of person isn't going to win awards or grab headlines, but he has a way of getting under your skin, of being the steady presence in the room, you learn to appreciate his no-bullshit candor. Unfortunately, the kind of reputation doesn't happen immediately, and I think that's why John's movies always initially suffered but then slowly but surely gained a loyal following.
“Do you want some too, buddy?”
THIS, Ladies and Gentleman, is the real reason why John Carpenter is one of my Biggest inspirations towards music!
"The past became a timeless wonder, and the future, an endless horror."-John Duran
I'm so glad that I was born in the middle of 80s and lived my childhood throughout 90s
1981 Florida female baby here, and I agree. The 80s and 90s were awesome.
Yeah, it would absolutely suck to be a kid today. It's sad.
Sounds so unlikely for a Lovecraftian horror film, and yet it works....
So true!
Well name is a direct reference to Giger's one of short stories
I don't know... A lot of metal songs have influence of Lovecraft books. Maybe it's a reference?
To this day, ITMofM remains the single greatest Lovecraft-inspired film ever made!!! No other movie comes close, not even remotely!!!!!!!
@@DragonHeart613 Dagon is a kinda interesting film
This song feels like your riding a motorcycle.
My favourite film of all time, and completely underrated by critics... Awesome
You can just feel the Old Ones coming for you in the beat of the guitar riff and in the credits it works GREAT to the rhythm of the printing press for the book itself.
THAT laugh at the END, GOLD!!
"Sorry about the balls!! It was a lucky shot!"
This soundtrack! Begins with Rock Hard and ends at the same, but also with despair and terror:) Like the movie😎
Never ever gets old :) One of Carpenters best with some bizarre, creepy twists. Love this movie...and the 90's was a kick ass decade for rock-oriented movie soundtracks (The Crow, In The Mouth of Madness, Vampires...and I know there are others I am forgetting. Pardon, I was very young, lol). Thanks for posting it! :D
I think this is with Starman, The Thing and Assault on precinct 13 the best Carpenter's movie. In the mouth of madness is a very underrated and unfortenately very unknown movie, thats a pity.
But someday, Carpenter will be recognized as the great filmmaker that in fact he is. And hopefully he will give us soon another one great movie!!!
As Starman said:
Greetings!!!
I Love you.
Also got to love the fact that a young Hayden Christensen has a very small part as the paper boy in this film
@@countryboyblue21 Totally...I shock a lot of people when I tell them that, they always go, "No way! GTFO!" lol. Two of my favorites, Neil and Christensen: I gotta get this back into our library, I miss watching it!
@@christinawolfe5332 you're sexy
Before dvds came out anytime I saw this in the TV guide it was a weekly highlight!
John Carpenter create some good bad ass music.
"Sorry about the balls, it was a lucky shot"
Watched this movie today, and I absolutly love it. Just went to the top of genre
Have you read Sutter Kane?
Then this shouldn't be a surprise to you...
This sounds like the music that the "bad kid" would listen to when he rolled up to school in an early 90s tv show. Like "uh oh, here comes Biff Donglus! I hear he ties cat's tails together!"
Einer WIRKLICH besten Horror Filme die ich je gesehen habe. Chapoooo
Love this theme song and movie. Saw it in ‘95 at the age of 15! One of the best cinema going experiences I’ve ever had! I’m from Toronto where this film was shot. I live near Unionville (aka Hobb’s End). I even have a few videos on my channel where I filmed in that town. Every time I go there I can’t help but to think of this incredible horror film. IMO, the best movie to evoke the Lovecraftian horror/weirdness atmosphere. It’s a masterpiece! Damn this theme song rocks out good! 🤟🏻
Just discovered this movie this week, what a masterpiece ! From this music to the end, a movie that scared and scars me for life
enter the sandman. John Carpenter edition
Tenebre (1982) ost "Lesbo (film version)" totaly inspired main theme.
Enter the Thing
I Don't care, its awesome 😎
I love this theme, it sounds so cool and the movie is great too. Deep respect to John Carpenter!
What an excellent movie! Superb acting, a haunting story, a classic, unsettling atmosphere. This is a true horror film.
It's too bad not many movies today can live to these standards.
Thanks for posting this theme song. :)
Sorry if this sound stupid but what anime is your profile picture?
Enter Carpenterman
It's the best theme song with a heavy metal vibe.
I wish it had lyrics though.
John Carpenter my idol!
"Reality ain't what it used to be"
This movie scared the hell out of me as a kid.
So this was new to me till yesterday.
🎸
it just never got as famous as excorcist, evil dead or Halloween.
but everyone who knows the film, loves it ;)
If you're gonna pull an insurance scam, don't make your wife a partner... and if you do, don't fuck around behind her back!
Yes I agree, the beginning shares similar tune to Dario Argento's Tenebrae, the track Lesbos. The reason for this I'm sure is even noted by John Carpenter that Argento's films have absolutely contributed to his work. I imagine he loved the tune and reworked it, i love this track!
This is pretty kickass. Thanks Jay and Colin!
RLM fan; my kind of guy. ^__^
Классный трек, помню в 90х посмотрел фильм , надолго запомнил. Супер!
One of the best themes I've ever heard.
What an amazing way to start an amazing movie!
Best Cthulhu movie ever :D
Great opening track. Remember when horror movies had memorable themes?
Dam this was 15 years ago
If you listen closely, you can pick up the theme for the Terrans in Starcraft 1 😊
Gran Músico,amén de Director.
Una película PERFECTA.
That part tripped me out (Cane's agent w/the axe). For some reason the boy on the bike just freaked the hell out of me. Love this movie.
Une des plus "belles allégorie" sur notre monde qui tombe dans la schizophrénie !...un film à voie et à revoir !
jean-françois de neck je découvre à peine carpenter, et ayant vu The Thing et Le prince des tenebres, je vais regarder celui ci d'ici peu !
Capisci che un film è un capolavoro dal tema musicale all’inizio!
To the people who haven't seen the movie and have only heard this song, don't give up on it yet. I love this track cause I thinks its implementation into the movie is fucking hilarious, but trust me the rest of the movie is nothing like the feel of this song. Its up there with Carpenter's best in my opinion, and I think anyone would enjoy it as a trippy lovecraftian kinda horror movie. And its become one of my favorites ever as a result.
Critical Drinker recommended me this film, then the epic guitar music instantly caught my attention and brought me here. Unbeknownst to me though, that this was done by both John Carpenter and Dave Davies from The Kinks (one of my favourite bands). No wonder I liked it, a collaboration between two legends.
I can always count on the Drinker’s recommendations.
Saw the two first minutes of the movie, got to TH-cam to put the theme in favorite.
john carpenter is a kick ass composer and song writer and soundtrack composer, etc.
This was crafted by the Elder Gods of Rock!
Great theme. And with social media, our reality has essentially become In the Mouth of Madness. As Styles said, reality is just what we tell ourselves it is. The sane and the insane could just as easily swap places if the insane were to become a majority.
Anymore it seems if you're one of the few humans alive today who hasn't been driven into cultlike madness by social media, you're like John Trent at the end of the movie, only looking on and laughing hysterically as you too lose your sanity as you watch the humans of your reality tear each other apart.
And we are seeing that. Mental illness (like dissociative identity disorder) has become the norm with people pretending to be something they aren’t. The insane are becoming the majority, it’s just not as violent as Sutter Cane thought it would be, yet.
An under-rated classic as well. Most people don't even understand that it serves as social commentary with the premise of people turning into monsters from reading books.
This is my new wrestling theme
"This wrestling moves will drive you insane!"/ "This moves are out of this world!"
:P
Sounds like Metallica wrote soundtrack for Starcraft
+Pallid85 so isn't just me thinking this :D it's just so terran style
+Pallid85 lmao spot on!
+Pallid85 Yeah man !!!
You wanna piece of me, boy?
Interestingly enough the temp score for the opening of the movie was a Metallica song!
great theme this movie creeped me out when i was young , carpenter with another quality tune and film
one of the best movies ever!
pure classic and many meanings.
Magistral. Puro Carpenter en una de sus mejores piezas musicales y películas.
I listen to this when I slowly cross the street looking to smash a cafe window open
A true homage to Lovecraft. Or the movie is at least. The song is just pure awesome.
The best movie theme ever....and what an amzing horror movie ..saw it as a child... still scares me....chamber of chills!!!!!
One of my favorite soundtracks ever :)
Saw it again last night, and of course left it on for the end credits music ! \m/
Such a beautifull song, so deeply emotional and powerfull. Always thinking about the crazy ending alone in the movie theater. This is brilliant. Impossible for me to get a proper ranking among Carpenter's films ... same issue with his movies' themes. Beside this one, Village of the Damned and Assault's themes are great ones too IMO. This should be the top three .Then maybe Fog, NY1997, Halloween ... What do you think ? I dont' know about Dark Star or Elvis (not seen yet). The latter's soundtrack could be a solid piece as well.
JC never forgets about the script, JC never forgets about the spectator, JC never even forgets about social or politics, JC never forgets about the soundtrack and JC never forgets about the ending. Oh, I think I really do love JC :-P
Big Trouble in Little China. The Thing theme? It's so simple (like most of themes in Carpenter's movies), but it sets up the mood perfectly.
and go and watch Dark Star, it's funny and good example how SF movies don't need huge FX if movie is witty and director has good eye.
The Thing theme is actually by Ennio Morricone. Great theme, of course.
Morricone styled it after Carpenter, though.
I do as well. Brilliant man.
This is a great tune. It kind of reminds me of the StarCraft soundtrack.
Carpenter will always be THE king of horror and the offbeat genre picture. I mean fuck: Assault On Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Escape From New York, They Live, Big Trouble In Little China, Christine, Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness, Vampires......Either all are considered genuine classics or have a devout cult following. The man is a damn legend.
Yessssss my friend
Dam
I’m not insane. You hear me? I am NOT INSAAAANE!
One of my favorites of all time along with They Live and Vampires. John Carpenter is a true film-making genius. I pay homage to him in Cobalt.
Outrageously bloody brilliant theme song, crank it to the max and enjoy people.
this is the best soundtrack,ever!!!!!!!!!!! and the best film......and the best actor (sam neill)
This sounds sooo gooood high
We are Not Living in a Sutter Cane story this is not Reality!
-Not Reality!
-Not Reality!
-This is... Reality.
(Insane Laughter)
Everyone is saying Metallica, but I get a very “Megadeth” feel from this.
The intro part, especially the drums, is similar to Enter Sandman. But yeah, musically it does have more of a Megadeth vibe.
Angry again by Megadeth
I can't listen to this without doing a James Hetfield "Yeaheah!"
one of carpenters best movies.
Agreed. The best masterpiece of Science fiction horror's tribute to Sir Lovecraft.
(The thing, Prince of darkness and In the mouth of madness
The guitar arpeggio at the beginning is eerily similar to the one in the song "Lesbo" by Goblin, from the soundtrack of the movie Tenebre by Dario Argento.
...but then again that song was also very similar to Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult, down to the cowbell in the background.
"More cowbell!"
What a great tune for a great film love it
Am I the only one who hears "StarCraft" Terran soundtrack?
Nope.
I heard it too.
Everytime.
+Šárka Novotná The best game music of the late 90's ! Epic soundtrack.