Showing posts with label Soundtrack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soundtrack. Show all posts

Saturday, 31 October 2026

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.

Thursday, 15 October 2026

Tobe Hooper & Wayne Bell – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)


Composers: Tobe Hooper & Wayne Bell
 
Tracklist
 1. Main Title 04:03
2. Warnings Medley: Joe Bill's Cemetery Warning - Gas Station Sun 01:04
3. Cuts Medley: Feedlot - Hitchhiker's Razor 00:54
4. Outside Grandpa's - The Mark 01:46
5. Inside Grandpa's - Bones 00:45
6. Menace Medley: What Kirk And Pam Don't Know - Pam's Foreboding - Leatherface Slams the Door 01:10
7. Jerry X, Leatherface Worries 03:37
8. Trouble Moon 04:55
9. Distant Disturbance (Sketch 1) 01:48
10. Closer Problem (Sketch 2) 01:50
11. Franklin X, But Then... 06:12
12. Sally Awakens For Dinner, To The End 09:27
13. End Titles 01:30
14. Descent (Sketch 3) 01:16
 
 "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" is a 1974 American slasher film
produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel.
The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead.
The independent film was marketed as being based on true events
to attract a wider audience and to act as a subtle commentary on the era's political climate.
Although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by Ed Gein, its plot is largely fictional.
Hooper produced the film for less than $140,000
and used a cast of relatively unknown actors drawn mainly from central Texas, where the film was shot. 
Hooper struggled to find a distributor, but it was eventually acquired by the Bryanston Distributing Company.
He also limited the quantity of onscreen gore in hopes of securing a PG rating,
but the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rated it R.
The film faced similar difficulties internationally, being banned in several countries
and numerous theaters stopped showing the film in response to complaints about its violence.
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" was released in the United States on October 11, 1974
and it has since become widely regarded as one of the best and most influential horror films.
It is credited with originating several elements common in the slasher genre:
the use of power tools as murder weapons, the characterization of the killer as a large, masked figure and the final girl.
It led to a franchise that continued the story of Leatherface and his family
through sequels, prequels, a remake, comic books, and video games.
In 2024, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry
by the Library Of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The film's original score was composed by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell.
It is an experimental exercise in music composing and performance that utilizes non-traditional instruments
such as suspended cymbals, aluminum saucepans, a children's toy percussion set,
various wildlife calls, whistles, shakers, and more.
The result is one of the earliest examples of industrial music
and has since become known as the "holy grail" of film scores due to its status of being either lost or destroyed.
As such, Hooper and Bell's innovative score has become highly sought after,
spawning countless bootlegs and attempts to re-create it for commercial gain.
In 2023, the original film score master tapes were discovered
and then privately held at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX for preservation.
Co-composer Wayne Bell worked to have these original source material master tapes safely transferred.
Bell then personally worked to construct and mix the newly score for a cohesive listening experience.
The score was then mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Mastering.
Finally in 2024 Waxwork Records released the soundtrack on CD and Vinyl,
making the official score available anywhere for the first time ever.

Monday, 31 August 2026

Michael Dress – The House That Dripped Blood (1971)


Composer: Michael Dress
 
Tracklist
 1. Main Title / Prologue 01:59
First Story: "Method For Murder"
2. Charles And Alice 01:46
3. Writing Horror / Seeing And Hearing Things 02:44
4. Dominick's Sketch / Seeing Dominick 01:30
5. Dominick At The Window / Dominick With The Psychiatrist / I Don't Know Anyone Named Richard 01:48
Second Story: "Waxworks"
6. Philip Grayson / Remembering 02:26
7. Museum Of Horror / Back Home / Nightmare 02:47
8. Museum Of Horror Revisited / Neville's End / Philip's End 04:39
Third Story: "Sweets To The Sweet"
9. John Reid And Daughter Jane / Frightened Of Fire 00:37
10. The Book / Witchcraft 02:31
11. Missing Candles / Wax Doll And Pin 01:40
12. Evil Jane 01:48
Fourth Story: "The Cloak"
13. Paul Henderson, Horror Star / Costume Shop / The Cloak 01:46
14. The Vampire 02:18
15. Welcome To The Club 02:05
16. The House That Dripped Blood - Epilogue / End Titles 04:25
 
 "The House That Dripped Blood" is a 1971 British anthology horror film
directed by Peter Duffell and made by Amicus Productions.
It stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn Porter, Denholm Elliott and Jon Pertwee.
The film is a collection of four short stories concerning a series of inhabitants of the eponymous building.
All of the stories were originally written, and subsequently scripted, by Robert Bloch (Psycho).
The soundtrack of the film was written by English composer Michael Dress (July 9, 1935 - April 11, 1975).
Not a lot is known about Dress, growing up in Berlin, Germany, he taught expressionist dance, relocated to London,
worked as a composer at BBC and musical director, wrote an opera and composed music for the theater and films. 
His short filmography include "Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx", which starred a very young Gene Wilder,
the sci-fi film, "The Mind Of Mr. Soames", as well as "A Touch Of Love", starring Sandy Dennis.
For "The House That Dripped Blood", Dress used a lot of percussion and weird effects, organ, harpsichord,
a solo female voice floating in the air, vibes and strings, all creating a very hallucinogenic and haunting atmosphere,
that gives the stories in the film an interesting texture and feel.

Thursday, 30 July 2026

Isao Tomita – Demon Pond (1979)


Composer: Isao Tomita
 
Tracklist
1. La Cathedrale Engloutie 06:39
2. Des Pas Sur La Neige 04:41
3. Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'un Faune 10:14
4. Claire De Lune 05:53
5. The Hut Of Baba Yaga 03:42
6. The Great Gate At Kiev 06:18
7. Promenade - The Old Castle 06:18
8. A Night On Bald Mountain 12:44
 
Demon Pond (Japanese: 夜叉ヶ池) is a 1979 Japanese romantic fantasy film directed by Masahiro Shinoda.
It is an adaptation of the 1913 play of the same name by Izumi Kyōka,
with an adapted screenplay written by Haruhiko Mimura and Tsutomu Tamura.
The film stars Tsutomu Yamazaki, Go Kato and Kabuki actor Tamasaburo Bando.
The story is set in Japan in the 1930s where a scholar visits a drought-stricken village
and finds his missing friend guarding a mystical mountain pond.
The friend must ring a sacred bell daily to prevent an imprisoned dragon god from unleashing an apocalyptic flood.
The film's score, composed by Isao Tomita, heavily utilizes Moog synthesizers, mixing classical and electronic music genres.
Scenes taking place on dry land are often accompanied by Tomita's arrangement of pieces by composer Claude Debussy,
whereas underwater scenes are scored by Tomita's arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures At An Exhibition".
Isao Tomita (冨田 勲 22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016) was a Japanese composer regarded as one of the pioneers
of electronic and space music as well as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements.
In addition to creating note-by-note realizations, Tomita made extensive use of the sound-design capabilities
of his instrument, using synthesizers to create new sounds to accompany and enhance
his electronic realizations of acoustic instruments.
He also made effective use of analog music sequencers and the Mellotron, and featured futuristic science-fiction themes,
while laying the foundations for synth-pop music and trance-like rhythms.
Many of his albums are electronic versions and adaptations of familiar classical music pieces.
He received four Grammy nominations for his 1974 album based on music by Claude Debussy, "Snowflakes Are Dancing".

Thursday, 30 April 2026

Professor Richmann – Succulent Blue Sway (Soundtrack) (1994)

 
Country: Australia
 
Tracklist
1. Fax 04:21
2. Arc 02:52
3. Spiral Path Of A Blindfolded Man 03:13
4. Ambient Fear 07:48
5. Salt 03:13
6. Dog Beneath The Skin 03:38
7. Eis 02:01
8. At The Emperor's Mercy 04:01
9. DNA Loop 04:52
10. Stroboscopic Photograph 05:23
11. Obsidious 07:11
12. Spiral Path #3 01:36
13. Virus 03:34
14. Pandæmonium 02:59
 
Shinjuku Thief leader Darrin Verhagen created this album in 1994
in between the release of the albums "Witch Hammer" and "Witch Hunter".
It was commissioned by the Vis a Vis company production as a soundtrack for a contemporary dance work
examining man's relationship with technology and was first performed in Canberra, Australia in October 1994.
Whilst its is still a lush evocative world, Verhagen's trademark moody landscapes are augmented here 
with ambient techno and minimal IDM grooves, creating a rich dynamic blend of drama and intrigue.
Released on his own label Dorobo.

Sunday, 25 January 2026

Bruno Nicolai – Tutti I Colori Del Buio (1972)


Composer: Bruno Nicolai
 
Tracklist
 1. Magico Incontro 02:12
2. Bambole 01:46
3. Medium 02:03
4. Magico Incontro 03:25
5. Insidia 01:52
6. Suggestione 02:28
7. Magico Incontro 02:58
8. Evocazione 03:12
9. Bambole 01:45
10. Esorcismo 03:03
11. Oppressione 02:22
12. Magico Incontro 02:53
13. Ipnosi 02:31
14. Invasamento 02:15
15. Sabba 03:44
16. Incantesimo 03:28
17. Propiziazione 02:38
18. Insidia 01:45
19. Sabba 05:45
20. Immateriale 02:57
21. Espiazione 01:45
22. Medium 03:43
23. Insidia 02:30
24. Magico Incontro 01:29
25. Insidia 02:28
26. Magico Incontro 01:11
27. Invasamento 03:37
28. Sabba 03:46
29. Magico Incontro 02:23
 
 Bruno Nicolai (20 May 1926 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director,
conductor, pianist and musical editor, most active in the 1960s through the 1980s.
While studying piano and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome,
he befriended Ennio Morricone and formed a long working relationship,
with Nicolai eventually conducting for and co-scoring films with Morricone.
Morricone noted in an interview discussing the Dollars Trilogy:
"I chose a great musician and friend to be my conductor, Bruno Nicolai,
who conducted almost every score of mine from that point on until 1974.".
Nicolai also scored a number of giallo exploitation films and wrote many scores for director Jesús Franco.
Nicolai's compositions are characterized by their rich orchestration and innovative use of instruments, 
including bells, anvils, and whips, elements that became synonymous with the spaghetti western sound. 
He also explored various musical styles, from classical to avant-garde,
and was known for his work in library music, founding the labels Gemelli and Edi-Pan.
His work was also featured in Tarantino's films "Kill Bill: Volume 2" and "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood".
"All The Colors Of The Dark" (Italian: Tutti I Colori Del Buio) is a 1972 giallo film directed by Sergio Martino
and starring George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, Julián Ugarte, George Rigaud, Susan Scott and Marina Malfatti.
The film was also released under the alternate titles "Day Of The Maniac" and "They're Coming To Get You!".

Friday, 30 May 2025

Michael Convertino – The Hidden - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987)


Composer: Michael Convertino
 
Tracklist
1. Main Title 01:51
2. Political Rally 01:51
3. Back At Home 01:02
4. Transference 02:19
5. Miller In Apartment 01:55
6. Lloyd And The Little Girl 01:13
7. Lloyd Alone 01:14
8. Final Transference 03:16
9. The Dog 01:26
10. Rampage 07:33
11. Shoot-Out 05:57
12. Stripper 01:50
13. Road Block 01:55
14. Mannequin 05:01
 
"The Hidden" is a 1987 American sci fi-horror action film directed by Jack Sholder,
written by Jim Kouf (under the pseudonym Bob Hunt), and released by New Line Cinema.
It stars Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri, along with Clu Gulager,
Chris Mulkey, Ed O'Ross, Clarence Felder, Claudia Christian and Larry Cedar.
Director Jack Sholder was drawn to the film because of the script.
Writer Jim Kouf had originally expressed interest in directing, but when the studios refused, he lost interest in the script. Sholder, who saw the potential to turn it into more than an action film,
did a rewrite to heighten the themes of what it means to be human.
The score was composed by American musician Michael Convertino (born 1952 in New York City) 
best known for his collaborations with director Randa Haines on films like "Children Of A Lesser God", "The Doctor",
"Wrestling Ernest Hemingway", and "Dance With Me", as well as "Bull Durham",
"Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead" and the Tim Allen comedies "The Santa Clause" and "Jungle 2 Jungle".

Thursday, 20 April 2023

Charles Bernstein – The Entity (1981)


Composer: Charles Bernstein

Tracklist
1. Intro And Main Title 01:49
2. Bath/Attack 01:31
3. Beach Scene 01:05
4. Iceberg 01:29
5. Carla & Jerry 01:30
6. Carla's Room Wrecked 01:55
7. It Appears/The Entity 02:45
8. Carla 02:40
9. The Power 02:34
10. Relentless Attack 01:27
11. The Entity Lurks 01:29
12. Helium Attack 01:25
13. Mozart Source 02:23
14. Glimmer Of Hope 02:36
15. Finale: Carla Leaves House 01:25
16. End Credits 02:28
17. Attack Music Deconstructed 01:09
18. Attack Music Reject 00:56
19. Main Title Synth Version 01:39

The Entity is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie,
and written by Frank De Felitta, who adapted his 1978 novel of the same name.
The film stars Barbara Hershey as a single mother in Los Angeles who is tormented by an invisible assailant.
Like the novel, the film is based on the 1974 real paranormal phenomena case of Doris Bither,
a woman who claimed to have been repeatedly sexually assaulted by an invisible entity,
and who was observed by doctoral students at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Despite being filmed and planned for a release in 1981,
the movie was not released in worldwide theaters until September 1982 and February 1983 in the United States.
The film is interpreted as a parable for female sexual victimhood
and the lead character as a woman who "goes head-to-head with a gaggle of men (including the "entity" itself).
American composer of film and television scores Charles Harold Bernstein (born February 28, 1943)
composed the soundtrack of the movie.
Bernstein is a Daytime Emmy Award winner, and a two-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee.
During the 1980s, Bernstein scored the music for the horror films Cujo (1983),
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984), April Fool's Day (1986) and Deadly Friend (1986).
Quentin Tarantino has included Bernstein's music from White Lightning and The Entity
in the soundtracks of his films Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
The complete collected orchestral/synth soundtrack of the movie was released for the first time in 2009 by Intrada
as a limited Edition CD of 1200 copies while in 2019 Wyrd War released on 666 copies the limited edition vinyl.
Recorded at Village Recorders studios in West Los Angeles and Bernstein’s Santa Monica studio in 1981,
sourced from Bernstein’s archives and featuring three bonus outtakes that provide a glimpse into his compositional process.

Sunday, 11 December 2022

Eraserhead Original Soundtrack (1982)


Composers: David Lynch, Alan R. Splet, Peter Scott Ivers

Tracklist
1. Side A (Digah's Stomp, Lenox Avenue Blues, Stompin' The Bug, Messin' Around With The Blues) 20:08
2. Side B (In Heaven - Lady In The Radiator Song) 18:22
3. In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song) 01:38
4. Pete's Boogie (Previously Unreleased) 03:58
5. Eraserhead Dance Mix 10:16
 
 "Eraserhead" is a 1977 American surrealist horror film written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch.
Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians.
Shot in black and white, it was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films.
Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, 
it tells the story of a man who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape.
The soundtrack of the film was composed by David Lynch and Alan R. Splet
and was originally released via I.R.S. Records on LP in the United States on June 15, 1982 with 5 tracks.
Alan R. Splet (December 31, 1939 – December 2, 1994) was an American sound designer and sound editor
known for his collaborations with director David Lynch on "The Elephant Man", "Dune" and "Blue Velvet".
Due to being legally blind, Splet rarely traveled and mainly worked from Berkeley, California.
In 1980, he won an Oscar for his work on the film "The Black Stallion"
and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for "Never Cry Wolf".
The mood and tone of "Eraserhead" and its soundtrack were influenced by Philadelphia's post-industrial history.
Lynch lived in the city while studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts
and was fascinated by its feeling of constant danger, describing it both as a:
"sick, twisted, violent, fear ridden, decaying place" and "beautiful, if you see it the right way.".
Lynch and Splet used avant-garde approaches to recording on the soundtrack,
including crafting almost every sound in the soundtrack from scratch using bizarre methods.
The ambiance of the love scene in the movie, for example,
was produced by recording air blown through a microphone as it sat inside a bottle floating in a bathtub.
Lynch and Splet worked "9 hours a day for 63 days" to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film.
Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for "Eraserhead" as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack.
Also during the production of the soundtrack, Lynch drew two telephone wires for Splet,
each line indicating between four and five pitches he wanted to be represented in the movie's music and sound effects.
When Splet played Lynch pipe organ parts from American jazz pianist, organist, Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
(May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) as soundtrack material, Lynch was immediately confident in the pipe-organ style,
stating that he had "never listened to any other kind of music for ("Eraserhead"). I knew that was it."
Except the excerpts of organ music by Fats Waller the soundtrack also included piano parts by Phil Worde
and the song "In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)",
written for the film and sang by Peter Scott Ivers (September 20, 1946 – March 3, 1983).

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Les Baxter – The Pit And The Pendulum (1961)


Composer: Les Baxter

Tracklist
1. Main Titles 04:46
2. Francis Inquires 01:32
3. Elizabeth's Tomb 02:46
4. Nicholas' Trauma 06:22
5. Music In The Night 03:09
6. Incipient Madness 02:41
7. Castle Medina 00:58
8. Nightmare 00:40
9. Dark Corridors 01:26
10. Dead End 02:09
11. Nicholas' Guilt 01:45
12. Late Wife 00:24
13. Suspicions 03:03
14. True, True! 05:19
15. Voices And Spiderwebs 05:10
16. Don Medina's Return 02:18
17. The Pit And The Pendulum 06:29
18. End Titles 02:12


The Pit And The Pendulum is a 1961 horror film directed by Roger Corman,
starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders.
The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name.
The film was the second title in the popular series of Poe adaptations released by American International Pictures,
the first having been Corman's House Of Usher released the previous year.
Like House, the film features widescreen cinematography by Floyd Crosby,
sets designed by art director Daniel Haller, and a film score composed by Les Baxter.
A critical and box-office hit, Pit's success convinced AIP and Corman to continue adapting Poe stories 
for another six films, five of them starring Vincent Price.
The series ended in 1965 with the release of The Tomb Of Ligeia.
Film critics have noted the film's strong influence on numerous subsequent Italian thrillers,
from Mario Bava's The Whip And The Body (1963) to Dario Argento's Deep Red (1975).
Stephen King has described one of Pit's major shock sequences
as being among the most important moments in post-1960 horror film.
Leslie Thompson "Les" Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was a best-selling American musician and composer.
After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands,
he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as Exotica and scored over 100 motion pictures.
Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory before moving to Los Angeles at Pepperdine College.
From 1943 on he played tenor and baritone saxophone for the Freddie Slack big band.
Abandoning a concert career as a pianist, he turned to popular music as a singer.
In 1950 Baxter started arranging and conducting for Capitol Records 
 and conducted the orchestra in two early Nat King Cole hits, "Mona Lisa" and "Too Young".
He also recorded Yma Sumac's first album: "Voice Of The Xtabay",
which can be considered one of the first recordings of Exotica.
In 1951 he made the original recording of "Quiet Village" which years later became a hit for Martin Denny.
In 1953 he scored his first movie, the sailing travelogue Tanga Tika.
With his own orchestra, he released a number of hits including "Ruby" (1953), "Unchained Melody" (1955),
"The Poor People Of Paris" (1956) and "Sinner Man" (1956).
"Unchained Melody" was the first million seller for Baxter and was awarded a gold disc.
"The Poor People Of Paris" also sold over one million copies.
He also achieved success with concept albums of his own orchestral suites: Le Sacre Du Sauvage, Festival Of The Gnomes,
Ports Of Pleasure, and Brazil Now, the first three for Capitol and the fourth on Gene Norman's Crescendo label.
The list of musicians on these recordings includes Plas Johnson and Clare Fischer.
Baxter also wrote the "Whistle" theme from the TV show Lassie.
In the 1960s, he formed the Balladeers, a conservative folk group in suits that at one time featured a young David Crosby.
Later he used some of the same singers from that group for a studio project called The Forum.
He worked in radio as musical director of The Halls Of Ivy and the Bob Hope and Abbott And Costello shows.
Like his counterparts Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin, Baxter worked in films in the 1960s and 1970s. 
He worked on movie scores for B-movie studio American International Pictures 
where he composed scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror and beach party films
including House Of Usher, The Pit And The Pendulum, The Raven, Muscle Beach Party and Beach Blanket Bingo.
He also composed a new score for the theatrical release of the 1970 horror film Cry Of The Banshee 
after AIP rejected Wilfred Josephs's original one.
Howard W. Koch recalled that Baxter composed, orchestrated and recorded
the entire score of The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) in a total of three hours for $5,000.
When soundtrack work fell off in the 1980s, he scored music for theme parks such as SeaWorld.

Saturday, 24 September 2022

Alejandro Jodorowsky / Don Cherry / Ronald Frangipane – The Holy Mountain (1973)


Composers: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Don Cherry, Ronald Frangipane

Tracklist
1. Trance Mutation 03:31
2. Pissed And Passed Out 01:48
3. Violence Of The Lambs 02:02
4. Drink It 01:37
5. Christs 4 Sale 00:43
6. Cast Out And Pissed 01:47
7. Eye Of The Beholder 02:17
8. Communion 01:23
9. Rainbow Room 04:40
10. Alchemical Room 04:14
11. Tarot Will Teach You / Burn Your Money 08:44
12. Mattresses, Masks & Pearls 05:53
13. Isla (The Sapphic Sleep) 02:21
14. Psychedelic Weapons 01:11
15. Rich Man In A Fishbowl 04:09
16. Miniature Plastic Bomb Shop 03:14
17. Fuck Machine 03:12
18. Baby Snakes 01:20
19. A Walk In The Park 01:31
20. Mice And Massacre 03:27
21. City Of Freedom 03:21
22. Starfish 02:21
23. The Climb / Reality (Zoom Back Camera) 04:14
24. Pantheon Bar (Bees Make Honey...) 03:45

The Holy Mountain (Spanish: La Montaña Sagrada) is a 1973 Mexican surreal-fantasy film
directed, written, produced, co-scored, co-edited by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky,
who also participated as a set designer and costume designer on the film.
Following Jodorowsky's underground hit El Topo, acclaimed by both John Lennon and George Harrison,
the film was produced by The Beatles manager Allen Klein of ABKCO Music And Records.
Lennon and Yoko Ono put up production money and the film was shown at various international film festivals in 1973,
including Cannes and limited screenings in New York and San Francisco.
The film is based on Ascent Of Mount Carmel by John Of The Cross 
and Mount Analogue by René Daumal, who was a student of George Gurdjieff.
In this film, much of Jodorowsky's visually psychedelic story follows the metaphysical thrust of Mount Analogue.
This is revealed in such events as the climb to the alchemist, the assembly of individuals with specific skills,
the discovery of the mountain that unites Heaven and Earth "that cannot not exist"
and symbolic challenges along the mountain ascent.
Daumal died before finishing his allegorical novel, and Jodorowsky's improvised ending
provides a way of completing the work (both symbolically and otherwise).
Before the principal photography would commence,
Jodorowsky and his wife spent a week without sleep under the direction of a Japanese Zen master.
Members of the cast spent three months doing various spiritual exercises guided by Oscar Ichazo of the Arica Institute.
The Arica training features Zen, Sufi and yoga exercises along with eclectic concepts drawn from the Kabbalah,
the I Ching and the teachings of George Gurdjieff.
After the training, the group lived for one month communally in Jodorowsky's home before production. 
Thereafter, the filming started in early 1972 and was shot sequentially, entirely in Mexico, at a budget of $750,000.
Jodorowsky was also instructed by Ichazo to take LSD for the purpose of spiritual exploration.
He also administered psilocybin mushrooms to the actors during the shooting of the death-rebirth scene.
The film was completed just in time for the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, where it was much awaited.
Jodorowsky edited out twenty minutes of dialogue, with the intention of removing as much dialogue as he could.
The film had its premiere at Waverly Theatre, an art house movie theater in New York City on 29 November 1973,
where it had restricted run at midnights on Friday and Saturday for sixteen months.
It was also shown at Filmex on 30 March 1974, which was described as the "American premiere".
At a few places it was released as a double bill with Jodorowsky's 1970 film El Topo
 and eventually became a cult film with its influence on popular culture.

Sunday, 31 October 2021

John Carpenter & Jim Lang – In The Mouth Of Madness (1995)


Composers: John Carpenter & Jim Lang

Tracklist
1. In The Mouth Of Madness 05:28
2. Robby's Office 02:30
3. Axe Man 02:04
4. Bookstore Creep 00:52
5. The Alley Nightmare 00:59
6. Trent Makes The Map 02:14
7. A Boy And His Bike 03:06
8. Don't Look Down 01:16
9. Hobb's End 02:18
10. Pickman Hotel 01:11
11. The Picture Changes 02:20
12. The Black Church 04:50
13. You're Wrong, Trent 01:42
14. Mommy's Day 03:04
15. Do You Like My Ending? 02:05
16. I'm Losing Me 03:09
17. Main Street 04:37
18. Hobb's End Escape 02:23
19. The Portal Opens 03:06
20. The Old Ones Return 02:30
21. The Book Comes Back 04:03
22. Madness Outside 00:34
23. Just A Bedtime Story 03:44

"In The Mouth Of Madness" is a 1994 horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca.
It stars Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston.
Neill stars as John Trent, an insurance investigator who visits a small town
while looking into the disappearance of a successful author of horror novels,
and begins to question his sanity as the lines between reality and fiction seem to blur.
The film is the third installment in what Carpenter refers to as his "Apocalypse Trilogy",
preceded by "The Thing" (1982) and "Prince of Darkness" (1987).
"In The Mouth Of Madness" pays tribute to the works of author H. P. Lovecraft in its exploration of insanity and its title,
the latter being derived from the Lovecraft novella "At The Mountains Of Madness".
The opening scene depicts Trent's confinement to an asylum,
with the bulk of the story told in flashback, a common technique of Lovecraft.
Reference is made to Lovecraftian settings and details (like a character that shares the name of Lovecraft's Pickman family).
Sutter Cane's novels have similar titles to H.P. Lovecraft stories:
"The Whisperer Of The Dark" (The Whisperer In Darkness), "The Thing In The Basement" (The Thing On The Doorstep), "Haunter Out Of Time" (The Haunter Of The Dark/The Shadow Out Of Time),
and "The Hobbs End Horror" (The Dunwich Horror), the latter also referencing Hobbs End underground station
from Nigel Kneale's "Quatermass And The Pit".
The film also referencing Stephen King, who, like Lovecraft, writes horror fiction set in New England hamlets.
In fact, the characters even directly compare King (unfavorably) to Sutter Kane within the film itself.
The soundtrack of the movie was co-written by John Carpenter and Jim Lang.
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor and composer. 
Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action,
and science fiction films of the 70s and 80s while he is recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre.
Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures,
with the notable exceptions of "Halloween" (1978), "The Fog" (1980), "Escape From New York" (1981), and "Starman" (1984).
However, many of Carpenter's films have come to be considered as cult classics,
and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker, movies like "Dark Star" (1974),
"Assault On Precinct 13" (1976), "The Thing" (1982), "Christine" (1983), "Big Trouble In Little China" (1986),
"Prince Of Darkness" (1987), "They Live" (1988), and "In The Mouth Of Madness" (1994).
Carpenter composed or co-composed most of his films and has released four studio albums, titled "Lost Themes" (2015),
"Lost Themes II" (2016), "Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998" (2017) and "Lost Themes III: Alive After Death" (2021).
In an interview he stated that it was his father's work as a music teacher, that first sparked an interest in him to make music.
Carpenter was an early adopter of synthesizers, since his film debut "Dark Star", when he used an EMS VCS3 synth.
His soundtracks went on to influence electronic artists who followed, but Carpenter himself admitted 
he had no particular interest in synthesizers other than that they provided a means to "sound big with just a keyboard".
For many years he worked in partnership with musician Alan Howarth, who would realize his vision
by working on the more technical aspects of recording, allowing Carpenter to focus on writing the music.
Carpenter is also narrator on the 2019 documentary film "The Rise Of The Synths" which explores the origins and growth
of the synthwave genre, and features numerous interviews with synthwave artists who cite Carpenter 
(alongside other early pioneers such as Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Tangerine Dream) as a significant influence.
James Volker Langknecht (born November 22, 1950), better known as Jim Lang, is an American composer
that worked with John Carpenter on the soundtracks of the films "Body Bags" (1993) and "In The Mouth Of Madness" (1994).
He is mostly known for scoring the Nickelodeon series "Hey Arnold!" (1996–2004),
its feature film, "Hey Arnold!: The Movie" (2002), and the television film, "Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie" (2017).

Friday, 17 September 2021

Bo Harwood & Lance Rubin – Happy Birthday To Me (1981)


Composers: Bo Harwood & Lance Rubin

Tracklist
1 - 19 Untitled 52:41
 
 Happy Birthday To Me is a 1981 slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson,
(famous for the 1962 classic movie Cape Fear), and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford.
Its plot revolves around six brutal murders occurring around a popular high school senior's birthday.
The movie was released theatrically in North America on May 15, 1981
and while reception was generally negative, it has since achieved a cult following.
Actress Melissa Sue Anderson, who had garnered childhood fame for her portrayal of Mary Ingalls
 on the television series Little House On The Prairie, was cast in the film's lead, marking her major feature debut.
Hollywood actor Glenn Ford, who played Jonathan Kent in Richard Donner’s Superman (1978),
was less-than-thrilled to be in a slasher film and apparently he was unpleasant on the set.
The make-up effects were done by special effects guru Tom Burman.
The film's ending was changed to hide the fact that the script was being rewritten so late in production.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released Happy Birthday To Me on DVD in 2004 with an entirely different,
uncredited musical score that diverged from the one used in the original cut.
On October 13, 2009, Anchor Bay Entertainment re-released the film on DVD with original musical score reintroduced.
Bo Harwood (known for his work on films directed by John Cassavetes) and Lance Rubin provided the film's score.
Syreeta Wright, one-time wife of Stevie Wonder, provided the eerie closing track,
composed by Lance Rubin that plays over the credits.

Saturday, 29 May 2021

Gil Mellé – The Andromeda Strain (1971)


Composer: Gil Mellé

Tracklist
1. Wildfire 02:46
2. Hex 04:00
3. Andromeda 02:24
4. Desert Trip 04:14
5. The Piedmont Elegy 02:23
6. OP 02:45
7. Xenogenesis 02:40
8. Strobe Crystal Green 04:55

The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction thriller film produced and directed by Robert Wise.
It is based on Michael Crichton's 1969 novel of the same name and adapted by Nelson Gidding.
The film stars Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne
as a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin.
With a few exceptions, the film follows the book closely and it is notable for its use of split screen in certain scenes.
The Andromeda Strain was one of the first films to use advanced computerized photographic visual effects,
with work by Douglas Trumbull, who had pioneered effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey,
along with James Shourt and Albert Whitlock who worked on The Birds.
Reportedly $250,000 of the film's budget of $6.5 million was used to create the special effects, 
including Trumbull's simulation of an electron microscope.
The film contained a faux computer rendering, created with conventional film-making processes,
of a mapped 3-D view of the rotating structure of the five-story cylindrical underground laboratory
in the Nevada desert named Project Wildfire.
A 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is:
"the most significant, scientifically accurate, and prototypic of all films of this (killer virus) genre,
as it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it,
and, finally, the work-up on its identification and clarification on why certain persons are immune to it."
The soundtrack of the fim was composed by Gilbert John Mellé (31 December 1931 – 28 October 2004),
an American artist, jazz musician and film composer.
Melle was born in New York City, where he was raised by a family friend after his parents abandoned him at the age of two.
As a child, he began painting and playing saxophone as a teen.
Before he was 16 years old, he was playing several jazz clubs in Greenwich Village.
At the age of 19, he signed to Blue Note, becoming the first white musician on the label’s roster.
At Blue Note, he released five 10'' EP records before recording his first full-length "Patterns In Jazz", in 1956.
In addition to recording and performing jazz, Melle continued with his artwork
and his paintings and sculptures were displayed at several New York galleries,
while his art was featured on his own albums, as well as records by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Thelonius Monk.
He left Blue Note shortly after the "Patterns In Jazz" sessions, signing with Prestige.
Between 1956 and 1957, he recorded three albums for Prestige ("Primitive Modern", "Gil’s Guests", and "Quadrama"),
before deciding to halt his career as a traditional jazz bandleader.
Melle moved to Los Angeles in the ’60s, where he began to compose scores for film and television.
Over the next 30 years, he wrote scores for over 125 films.
He also began working with electronic music, building his own synthesizers, including (arguably) the first drum machine
and performing with the first all-electronic jazz band, the Electronauts, at the tenth Monterey Jazz Festival.
In 1967, he returned to recording with "Tome VI", an all-electronic jazz album released on Verve.
He continued to pioneer electronic music, writing scores for the tv series Night Gallery
and The Andromeda Strain entirely with synthesizers, which was unheard of at the time.
In addition to writing music for films, he composed several symphonies,
which he performed with symphony orchestras in Toronto, London, and New Zealand.
During the mid-’90s, Melle decided to concentrate on the visual arts,
in particular his computer-based digital painting, which drew great acclaim from art critics across America.
The Andromeda Strain was originally released by Kapp Records as a hexagon-shaped vinyl,
housed in an elaborate folded pod-shaped sleeve featuring an insert with folding instructions.

Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Mario Nascimbene – Barabbas Original Soundtrack (1962)


Composer: Mario Nascimbene

Tracklist
1. Main Theme 05:04
2. The Whipping Of Christ 02:23
3. Eclipse 03:18
4. The Tomb 02:47
5. Intermezzo 01:55
6. The Mines 04:11
7. Arrival In Rome 01:48
8. Rome Afire 03:31
9. The Death Of Barabbas 03:00
10. Musical Examples 06:16

Barabbas is a 1961 religious epic film expanding on the career of Barabbas,
from the Christian Passion narrative in the Gospel of Mark and other gospels.
The film stars Anthony Quinn as Barabbas, features Silvana Mangano, Katy Jurado, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews,
Ernest Borgnine, Vittorio Gassman, and Jack Palance, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
It was conceived as a grand Roman epic, was based on Nobel Prize-winning Pär Lagerkvist's 1950 novel of the same title.
The film was directed by Richard Fleischer 
and shot in Verona and Rome under the supervision of producer Dino De Laurentiis.
It included many spectacular scenes, including a battle of gladiators in a Cinecittà film studio mock-up of the arena,
and a crucifixion shot that was filmed on 15 February 1961 during an actual total eclipse of the sun.
The music score by Mario Nascimbene, which was conducted by Franco Ferrara,
the noted conductor and lecturer on conducting at several famous international academies,
was noted for its unusual, stark experimental component, which included the introduction of electronic sounds
achieved by the manipulation of tape speeds, as "new sounds".
Mario Nascimbene (28 November 1913 – 6 January 2002)
was one of the best known Italian film soundtrack composers of the 20th century.
His career spanned six decades, during which time he earned awards for the innovative contents of his composing style.
During his career he composed soundtracks for more than 150 films.
Nascimbene studied composition and orchestral conducting at the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of Music in Milan
under the guidance of Ildebrando Pizzetti, Following graduation he wrote several pieces for chamber music and ballet.
He was commissioned to write the soundtrack for the film "L'amore Canta" (Love Song), directed in 1941
by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and the success of this film opened the doors of an entirely new career for him.
He was one of the few composers in Italy whose career was based on his work in the cinema.
He was particularly appreciated for the revolutionary innovation of incorporating the sounds
of non-orchestral instruments like that of a jaw harp or a harmonica, everyday noises
(like the tick-tock of a clock, the ring of a bicycle bell or the ticking sound of typewriters in Rome 11:00) in a musical score,
with the purpose to underline some particular film scenes.

Thursday, 28 January 2021

John Corigliano – Altered States (1981)


Composer: John Corigliano

Tracklist
1. Main Title And First Hallucination (Ritual Sacrifice And Religious Memories) 04:43
2. Love Theme 03:39
3. Second Hallucination (Hinchi Mushroom Rite And Love Theme Trio) 05:15
4. First Transformation (Primordial Regression) 03:40
5. Primeval Landscape (In The Isolation Chamber) 02:18
6. Second Transformation (The Ape Man Sequence)
(Escape From The Laboratory, Stalking The Dogs And The Fight, The Zoo And FInal Hunt) 08:06
7. Religious Memories And Father's Death 02:07
8. The Laboratory Experiment: Jessup's Transformation,
Collapse Of The Laboratory, The Whirlpool And Journey To Another Dimension, Return To Reality 06:16
9. The Final Transformation 04:16

Altered States is a 1980 American science-fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell
based on the novel of the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky.
The film was adapted from Chayefsky's only novel, published in 1978, and is his final screenplay.
The film follows the experiments of a psycho-physiologist with drugs in a sensory-deprivation tank
and his visions that he believes are genetic memories.
Both the novel and the film are based in part on John C. Lilly's research conducted in isolation tanks 
under the influence of psychoactive drugs like mescaline, ketamine, and LSD.
Altered States marked the film debut of William Hurt and Drew Barrymore.
Chayefsky withdrew from the project after disputes with Russell and took his name off the credits, 
substituting "Sidney Aaron," his actual first and middle names.
The film score was composed by John Corigliano (with Christopher Keene conducting)
and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Sound Mixing.
John Paul Corigliano (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of classical music.
His scores, numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, 
Grawemeyer Award For Music Composition, and an Oscar for his score for the film The Red Violin (1998).
He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University Of New York
and on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School.

Saturday, 12 December 2020

Armando Trovajoli – Ercole Al Centro Della Terra (Hercules In The Haunted World) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1961)

 

Composer: Armando Trovajoli

Tracklist
1. Preludio 02:11
2. Titoli 03:11
3. Apparizione Di Ercole 01:49
4. Agguato & Battaglia 01:42
5. Nel Regno Di Lyco 01:55
6. Deianira Prigioniera Di Lyco 01:30
7. Pazzia Di Deianira 02:50
8. L'Oracolo 02:03
9. Lotta Di Ercole & Salpando Verso L'Ade 03:24
10. Risveglio Nell'Ade 01:46
11. La Mela D'Oro 02:58
12. Stratagemma Di Ercole & Il Mostro Di Pietra 02:49
13. Tortura & Distruzione Del Mostro 01:39
14. Ombre Dell'Ade 01:02
15. Precipizio Di Fiamme 01:35
16. Vento Infernale 02:15
17. Appesi Al Vuoto 03:45
18. Anima Perduta 02:38
19. In Mare & Tempesta 02:07
20. Arrivo Ad Ecalia 01:30
21. Ercole E Deianira (Tema D'Amore) 02:04
22. Oscuro Presagio & Uccisione Di Elettra 02:03
23. Il Potere Maligno Di Lyco 02:14
24. Deianira Contro Lyco & Amore Di Persefone 01:47
25. Risveglio Dei Morti Viventi 05:29
26. Ercole Contro Lyco 01:39
27. Ercole Contro I Morti Viventi & Il Ritorno 03:05
28. L'Amore Trionfa (Finale) 01:17
29. Ercole Al Centro Della Terra (Intervallo Film) 00:19

"Hercules In The Haunted World" (Italian: "Ercole Al Centro Della Terra", lit. "Hercules At The Center Of The Earth")
is a 1961 Italian sword and sandal (aka peplum) film and the second official directorial effort of Mario Bava.
British bodybuilder Reg Park plays Hercules while British actor Christopher Lee appears as Hercules' nemesis Lico.
Shooting at Cinecittà, director Mario Bava used some of the same sets
from the earlier "Hercules And The Conquest Of Atlantis" which had already starred Reg Park.
The film started a short-living subgenre of films trying to combine the peplum genre with horror/gothic elements.
Films considered belonging to this subgenre include Riccardo Freda's "The Witch's Curse"
and Sergio Corbucci's and Giacomo Gentilomo's "Maciste Contro Il Vampiro".
The soundtrack of the film was composed by Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013),
an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor,
many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre.
Trovajoli collaborated with Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola on a number of projects
and was also the author of several Italian musicals.
Digitmovies in 2006 released for the first time the complete original motion picture score that is characterized
by innovative sound experiments that almost anticipate the colors of later psychedelic era in the decade.

Saturday, 31 October 2020

Henry - Portrait Of A Serial Killer – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1986)


Composers:  Robert McNaughton, Ken Hale, Steven A. Jones

Tracklist
1. Henry Theme 02:14
2. Dead Body Drone #1-#4 04:11
3. Too Young For These Blues 04:22
4. The Stalk 01:31
5. La Lania 02:52
6. Football Boys / Housewife Body Drone #5 01:57
7. Fingers On It 04:12
8. Becky Downtown 01:04
9. Yeah, I Killed Mama 01:04
10. Callin' Colleen 03:17
11. She's Your Sister 00:20
12. Jukin 02:38
13. Kill Hookers 00:48
14. It's Always The Same - And It's Always Different 01:07
15. Let's Go Shopping 03:48
16. Drive Up / Home Invasion 01:30
17. Stop Frame #1 - Stop Frame #2 01:26
18. Beauty & The Beast 00:35
19. Adios, Motherfucker 01:04
20. My Mistake 02:38
21. Henry End Of Theme 01:35
22. Drone 01:08

Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer is a 1986 American psychological horror crime film
directed and co-written by John McNaughton and Richard Fire,
about the random crime spree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity.
It stars Michael Rooker as the nomadic killer Henry, Tom Towles as Otis,
a prison buddy with whom Henry is living, and Tracy Arnold as Becky, Otis's sister.
The characters of Henry and Otis are loosely based on convicted real life serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole.
However, as the opening statement makes clear, the film is based more on
Lucas' violent fantasies and confessions rather than the crimes for which he was convicted.
The original poster artwork was a painting by Joe Coleman,
that was considered too extreme and was replaced by the current official poster.
The soundtrack of the film was composed by Robert McNaughton, Ken Hale and Steven A. Jones
with the help of Paul Petraitis on guitar, and was originally released in 1991  by Q.D.K. Media.
The music is mostly ambient / electronic mixed with samples from the movie and also features songs 
from rock & roll / hard rock bands like Kid Tater And The Cheaters, Enuff Z'nuff and Lynne And The Lizards.