Let's be the soundtrack to The Shining!

I am the hellish screams of an opera singer over the arrangement of Dies Irae by the great American composer Wendy Carlos as the opening credits roll.

I am the fact that Wendy Carlos was originally William Carlos.

Brace yourself for the inevitable reaction.

I am the sound of a Big Wheel running over carpeted and non-carpeted floors.

You wouldn't think I'd be so memorable.

You would be wrong.

I am Penderecki's Ewangelia. I am played as Wendy races up the sinister staircase and appears to hear a mass of people chanting.

Ironically, I am about the resurrection of Christ.

I am frightening.

I am the throaty big bands music that echoes through the corridors of the Gold Room.

I am the music as Jack finds out what's lurking in room 237.

It is difficult to believe that I was not written for this specific scene.

I wasn't.

I am an completely overlooked contributor to the soundtrack - Carl Stalling, who wrote the music for the 1940s Warner Brothers' cartoons. My sly improvisational techniques can be heard throughout whenever Wendy and Danny are watching TV. I offer a bleak commentary on the chase scenes soon to follow.

I'm Al Bowlly's enchanting, romantic song "Midnight, the Stars and You" now tinged with creepiness and commonly compiled in YouTube "spooky Halloween songs" offerings.

I am Bela Bartok's extraordinary Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. I chill you right to the fucking bone.

I am the tinkling of the latter movement of [R10] as Jack peers into the model of the maze and sees Wendy and Danny walking around far below....

I am the fact that Wendy Carlos wrote an entire score for The Shining and Kubrick discarded most of it in favor of selected passages from other composers, whom he evidently never reimbursed.

Am I a sore point in the field of modern classical music?

I'm a hip new pop act's latest song, played over a montage of the Torrences doing kooky things together! I'm a guaranteed soundtrack hit!

I don't exist. I wonder why?

I am the occasional absence of a musical soundtrack.

I am, like nothing, even more frightening.

I am Al Bowlly's tragic death, yet another reason to hate Hitler.

I am the magnificent Steinway concert grand in the Colorado Lounge.

No one plays me.

Thank Christ.

I am Rachel Eklund. I provide a co-writing credit to the opening theme and the voice of the hellish screams and groans that echo throughout the sequence.

I am [R14] during the bartender sequence.

I am indeed unnerving.

I’m cheesy blue font. I hang out with the soundtrack, like the fat annoying best friend of a beautiful girl.

I’m whatever the song is playing on the radio when Dick is driving in the snow storm back to the hotel.

I am Wendy Carlos' magnificent Rocky Mountains theme. I can be heard as Jack, Wendy and Danny drive to the Overlook. I and the opening credits are all that remain of the full Carols soundtrack.

I'd call it a fair trade, but I'm still bitter.

I'm [R20]! I crop again in John Carpenter's "The Fog" as a shout out. I am actually a generic radio call number interlude, used by several stations during the time period.

[quote] . I and the opening credits are all that remain of the full Carols soundtrack.

What do you mean?

Carlos, not Carols - Wendy Carlos wrote a score for the whole film but only the opening sequence and the Rocky Mountains theme made it into the finished film.

It's actually the same soundtrack for 2001: A Space Odyssey- minus the Strauss.

[quote] minus the Strauss.

Strausses. Both Johann and Richard are prominently featured in 2001