OK, so how many of you can recall the not-too-distant days when horror movies had entirely original scores? No, I don’t mean the modern soundtrack kind (that which amounts to little more than a mixtape of various recording artists whom record labels are keen to promote). I mean the Guy-Sits-Down-And-Writes-Music-Specifically-For-The-Movie kind that are usually performed by whole orchestras by conductors. Sometimes even with choirs. Other times, said scores are written and performed by progressive rock groups from Italy, or composed by the filmmaker himself with a synthesizer.
Archive for 29 October, 2009
*Music Review* The Definitive Horror Music Collection
Posted: 29 October, 2009 in Movies/TV, MusicTags: CD, compositions, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Danny Elfman, Elmer Bernstein, Ennio Morricone, Franz Waxman, Gareth Williams, Goblin, Halloween, Horror, incidental, James Bernard, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, John Carpenter, John Williams, Joseph LoDuca, London Music Works, Mark Ayres, Michigan Music Works, Music, Nick Watson, orchestrations, Pino Donaggio, score, Silva Screen Records, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, The Definitive Horror Music Collection, The Philharmonia Orchestra, The Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra, theme
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Harvey Keitel, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Miguel Ferrer team up for Wrong Turn At Tahoe
Posted: 29 October, 2009 in Movies/TVTags: Action, announcement, Cuba Gooding Jr, Drama, DVD, Harvey Keitel, Miguel Ferrer, Paramount, Wrong Turn At Tahoe
The road to revenge is filled with twists and turns in the action-packed thrill ride WRONG TURN AT TAHOE, arriving exclusively on DVD November 17, 2009 from Tapestry Films presented by Paramount Famous Productions. Starring Academy Award® winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Miguel Ferrer (“CSI”) and Academy Award® nominee Harvey Keitel (Bugsy), the original feature film tells the story of Joshua (Gooding Jr.), a tough-as-nails collector for mob boss and mentor, Vincent (Ferrer), who one fateful day gets caught in the middle of a double-cross involving the biggest drug lord in the business (Keitel). When revenge becomes Joshua’s sole purpose, his life takes a series of very wrong turns. The WRONG TURN AT TAHOE DVD includes a making-of featurette taking viewers behind-the-scenes of this gripping and suspenseful film.
October ’09 Releases from Alpha Video
Posted: 29 October, 2009 in Movies/TV, TVTags: adventure, Alpha Video, announcement, B-Movie, B-Western, Buster Crabbe, Comedy, Drama, DVD, Dwight Frye, Horror, jungle, Nazi, serial, TV
Well, here we are at the heels of another month, and so it’s time for a new batch of rarities from Alpha Video. October starts out with one of the generally “ignored” genres, the jungle adventure. Long before Americans discovered that Africa wasn’t an entire continent of jungles, cannibals, and tigers, Hollywood churned out one jungle gem after another.
