I don't like being scared. It was difficult to finish this. Those high discordant violins sounded like mosquitoes. Some say the shrillness sounds like screams. I prefer the 'pretty' horror music--where its a perfectly nice song until its played in minor or just reminds you of something horrific. Like Exorcist's Tubular Bells-Beautiful, pretty, driving creepy. The entirety of the 1979 Frank Langella's Dracula (so hard to find, very romantic Prokofiev, one of John William's best). Deliverance' Dueling Banjos-Honest to goodness great song! But irreversibly tainted. All those children's music box songs. One of my favorites is the End Title of little known 1999 movie Ravenous: th-cam.com/video/ThNgSjogMHU/w-d-xo.html At :45 seconds it becomes a boppy tune more appropriate to a video game--but this was a gorey cannibal movie. The soundtrack is full of subtly humorous American folk music. But you want actual scary music. For me, its usually its a relentless beat. Jaws theme is the most basic of it. The director said the theme is the shark's mind, primitive, relentless, hunting. John Carpenter's Halloween theme is a mix of that pretty Tubular Bell plus the relentless repetition of an inescapable predator. Its apex is John Carpenter's The Thing--the beating has been described as the human heartbeat as an alien tries to imitate it. The main title of The Black Phone does it, adding the discordance: th-cam.com/video/rUUvAwptUXo/w-d-xo.html Unpleasant to listen to. Highest creep factor goes to two songs. One is the opening to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A TH-cam legend is that it was made to sound like what an animal would hear in a slaughterhouse, complete with mindless whining screams. It makes me want to vomit, sort of. th-cam.com/video/3odOfyPz8L8/w-d-xo.html The end title isn't as bad but its the sound in your head after you've lost your mind: th-cam.com/video/NnqTXwIO_Co/w-d-xo.html Last and greatest is Krzysztof Penderecki's Polymorphia. Not written for a movie, it was used in The Shining and The Exorcist. Supposedly, the composer was recreating his feelings during WW2. You have to turn the sound up, it starts so quiet the music sounds like tiny fingers touching your back, spiders crawling on the walls..You definitely feel like something is in your house. th-cam.com/video/Wtq5iCxCIdU/w-d-xo.html
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I don't like being scared. It was difficult to finish this. Those high discordant violins sounded like mosquitoes. Some say the shrillness sounds like screams. I prefer the 'pretty' horror music--where its a perfectly nice song until its played in minor or just reminds you of something horrific. Like Exorcist's Tubular Bells-Beautiful, pretty, driving creepy. The entirety of the 1979 Frank Langella's Dracula (so hard to find, very romantic Prokofiev, one of John William's best). Deliverance' Dueling Banjos-Honest to goodness great song! But irreversibly tainted. All those children's music box songs. One of my favorites is the End Title of little known 1999 movie Ravenous: th-cam.com/video/ThNgSjogMHU/w-d-xo.html At :45 seconds it becomes a boppy tune more appropriate to a video game--but this was a gorey cannibal movie. The soundtrack is full of subtly humorous American folk music.
But you want actual scary music. For me, its usually its a relentless beat. Jaws theme is the most basic of it. The director said the theme is the shark's mind, primitive, relentless, hunting. John Carpenter's Halloween theme is a mix of that pretty Tubular Bell plus the relentless repetition of an inescapable predator. Its apex is John Carpenter's The Thing--the beating has been described as the human heartbeat as an alien tries to imitate it. The main title of The Black Phone does it, adding the discordance: th-cam.com/video/rUUvAwptUXo/w-d-xo.html Unpleasant to listen to.
Highest creep factor goes to two songs. One is the opening to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A TH-cam legend is that it was made to sound like what an animal would hear in a slaughterhouse, complete with mindless whining screams. It makes me want to vomit, sort of. th-cam.com/video/3odOfyPz8L8/w-d-xo.html The end title isn't as bad but its the sound in your head after you've lost your mind: th-cam.com/video/NnqTXwIO_Co/w-d-xo.html
Last and greatest is Krzysztof Penderecki's Polymorphia. Not written for a movie, it was used in The Shining and The Exorcist. Supposedly, the composer was recreating his feelings during WW2. You have to turn the sound up, it starts so quiet the music sounds like tiny fingers touching your back, spiders crawling on the walls..You definitely feel like something is in your house. th-cam.com/video/Wtq5iCxCIdU/w-d-xo.html