Richard Einhorn – Don't Go In The House (1979)

Composer: Richard Einhorn

 

Tracklist

1. The Burning 01:35
2. Don't Go In The House 01:46
3. Go Home, Mother's Waiting 01:47
4. Flashback 01:42
5. Mother, Are You Alright? 00:46
6. Danny Finds His Suit 01:43
7. Kathy Comes Home 00:51
8. I'll Burn The Evil Out Of You 01:48
9. A Real Taste For Burning 00:52
10. Mother, This Is Linda 01:07
11. A Holy Place 01:00
12. Thoughts Of Evil 02:44
13. Mother, Please Forgive Me 02:05
14. The Star Of The Show 01:28
15. Suzanne 00:56
16. Danny's Gone Crazy 02:21
17. Room Of Steel 01:17
18. Lies 01:42
19. Closer To Madness 02:06
20. House Of The Living Corpses 01:17
21. Pyromaniac 02:20
22. I'll Punish You Again 03:29
23. Punishment Of Evil 01:14
24. Cover Of The Flame 01:48
25. Baptized In Flames 00:44
26. Instructed In Fear 01:40
27. Burning Death Of Horror 02:20
28. More Burning 03:18
29. Engulfed In Flames 02:05
30. Burning Drone 01:12
31. The Fury Of His Vengeance 01:39
32. Imprisoned By A Tormented Mind 01:45
33. Flamethrower Effects 00:36
34. Electronic Screams 01:25
35. Spacey 1 00:43
36. Spacey 2 00:55
37. Space Industry 00:38
38. Theme (Mix 1) 01:36
39. Thematic Link 1 00:25
40. Thematic Link 2 00:25
41. Spacey 1 (Alt Mix) 00:46
42. Theme (Layer) 00:49
43. Space Industry 2 00:35
44. Theme (Mix 2) 01:36

 

"Don't Go In The House" (originally titled "The Burning") is a 1979 American slasher film

written and directed by Joseph Ellison, written by Ellen Hammill and Joe Masefield and starring Dan Grimaldi.

Its plot follows a disturbed man who, after suffering an abusive childhood in which his mother punished him with burning,

becomes a pyromaniac and serial killer who kidnaps and burns alive any women who resemble her.
Filmed in the historic Strauss Mansion in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey from February–March 1979, 

"Don't Go In The House" was released one year later in the spring of 1980, and was met with sharp criticism from film critics

due to its violence, particularly a sequence in which the protagonist burns a nude woman alive with a flamethrower.
The film score was composed by American composer of contemporary classical music Richard Einhorn (born 1952).
Einhorn graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1975

and studied composition and electronic music with Jack Beeson, Vladimir Ussachevsky and Mario Davidovsky.
His best-known work, "Voices Of Light" (1994), is an oratorio scored for soloists, chorus, orchestra and a bell.

It was inspired by Dreyer's film "The Passion Of Joan Of Arc" (1928) and it has been performed while the film is screened.

He has also composed many horror and thriller film scores, including "Shock Waves" (1977), "Eyes Of A Stranger" (1981),

"The Prowler" (1981), "Dead Of Winter" (1987), "Blood Rage" (1987), "Sister, Sister" (1987) and "Dark Tower" (1989).
Einhorn for "Don't Go In The House" used his ARP 2600 and ARP Omni synthesizers and a Tascam 8-track recorder.
He recorded the score at his home studio without any ability to sync the music to the film.
The soundtrack was released for the first time ever by Waxwork Records in 2019 as a double LP

and later on CD by Howlin' Wolf Records in 2021.

 
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