Theme from The Beyond (1981)

I have the soundtrack to Susperia by Goblin on vinyl.

While we're on the subject of late 70s/early 80s Italo horror, it's hard to beat this one.

I can;' link to it but check out the superb soundtrack for Tobe Hooper's "Lifeforce".

I liked Lifeforce. The critics trashed it. At least Roger Ebert did.

That one's so interesting R2, start off sounding romantic, but that electronic whistle is really unusual and unsettling.

I've not seen the movie, nor will I due to the real animal cruelty, but thank you for the opening titles, enjoyed listening to the track!

Hey, it's Henry Mancini, R3! Thanks for sharing too. Another movie I've never seen, but not even heard of this one.

The theme from 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 (1985):

Fuck yes - awesome thread!

Ah, I didn't notice this before posting R7, but that performance isn't the original - it's The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The original was by the London Symphony Orchestra, and it's a bit harder to find online. Instances of it are just clips from the film.

Zombi. Awesome theme, awesome movie.

R9, the full vinyl version is available on YouTube - apologies for being unable to link, but if you search using that term it should come up. It's an absolute masterpiece, one of the composer's best.

The film is very weird, incoherent, ugly and yet one of my favorites - nearly unclassifiable, like an X-rated episode of Dr. Who. It pretty much ended the career of Tobe Hooper.

R11, the US released vinyl version is also a re-performance, by the Varèse Sarabande Symphony Orchestra in 1985. The score used in the film has evidently never been released here.

There's a few soundtrack releases that are like that, like the one for 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲𝐦𝐚𝐧 (1992) by Philip Glass. It's not the performance used in the film.

It's possible that this French vinyl release is the original; I've been comparing it to captures of the film's opening and closing credits, and they sound the same to me. But it's possible I have a tin ear.

[quote]It pretty much ended the career of Tobe Hooper.

Elaborate, please.

R12, the film went severely over budget - was judged a drab, violent, off-putting clunky mess by the studio and was torn to bits in the editing room. It flopped even with an all-nude performance by Mathilda May, one of the loveliest femme fatales of film history. Hooper was already damaged by accusations that he had not finished directing Poltergeist. Between this film and his subsequent flop Invaders From Mars he failed to follow Sam Rami from the grindhouse to the multiplex.

I remember being so angry that the female vampire ran around buck naked and the two hunky male vampires didn't show anything.

But I actually thought there were some pretty cool visuals, like the alien spacecraft hovering over London, and the chaos in the city with all the drained energy from each attack going into the sky.

Technically they were nude too but talk about Attack of the Strategically Placed Shadows.

Yeah, that's what I meant, r16. All three were naked when awakened, but of course only the chick shows anything. Boo!! Now they'd be naked but wearing prosthetic dongs, so I don't know if that counts as progress or not.

Fuck yes, R10, I [italic]love[/italic] the theme for Zombi 2! (and yes, I think it's definitely one of Fulci's better movies) He does some good tunes, Fabio Frizzi. His theme for City of the Living Dead is very similar:

I adore this one from Inferno, it's so dramatic, perhaps melodramatic even. In such a delightful way!

What about this one?!

I just saw this movie the other weekend, the theme gets stuck in my head.

I believe Tarantino was hoping to remake it at one point, and he did use this track in Kill Bill:

Wouldn't say it's a good one, more cheese-tastic! but:

"Par-A-Noia is coming your way!"

Makes me laugh.

Speaking of The Beyond, I love this version of the music from the (utterly ridiculous) spider scene.

And just in case anybody wants a serious laugh, here is the spider scene.

So is the spider scene really bad? I know it's above, and I've watched The Beyond, but I averted my eyes when it was happening. A lot of scenes in Fulci don't really look realistic, but they're still kinda gooey and goopy and gross. The noises are usually bad enough. I've never seen then tarantula scene in this film, the vomiting scene in City of the Living Dead, or the eye scene in Zombi 2 for example. On the other hand, I think I saw most of, if not all of The New York Ripper.

Eye trauma seems to really stress me out. Probably I just need to watch the tarantula scene and get it over with, and will find it's not so bad, but I sorta can't bring myself to yet.

To answer you r25 (come on, no other horror fans here?), it's a great idea for a scene but with really poor execution. I won't give too much away, but the decision to mix live spiders with obviously fake spiders completely breaks the suspension of disbelief. The scene is definitely "gooey and goopy and gross," so if that's a huge issue then I would avoid it. It just looks really stupid too.

Thanks R26. I'm sure when I do watch it, I will wonder what the fuss was about. Probably the idea of it is more horrifying to me at the moment. I did listen to them talking about it on Werewolf Ambulance, and they were having a good giggle at the noises the spiders were making, which did make me laugh. They also said the girl vomiting in City of the Living Dead was clearly a wooden head at some points, hehe.

[quote]come on, no other horror fans here?

Not to worry, I think there are quite a few, other threads seem to be pretty popular - perhaps we're just posting at off-peak times?

One of the dude vampires in Lifeforce is Mick Jagger's brother.

I'm listening to the whole soundtrack of The Beyond currently, and it's very enjoyable.

Here's the soundtrack to the film The House by the Cemetery:

I watched Manhattan Baby last night. That was a... weird one. And not that enjoyable, if I'm honest.

The last time I hosted a Halloween party, I just played this for music:

more Carpenter:

That's a great idea for a party R32!

Oh, as this is a soundtrack thread, I should've added at R31 that it seemed like Manhattan Baby recycled its soundtrack in part from The Beyond. I kept thinking: "I've heard this track before!"

This is the song that's playing on the cop's radio when he's guarding the yacht in Zombi 2 in the middle of the night. The ungrammatical lyrics make me giggle and please me too - very appropriate for this type of movie.

This is the track mention at R22, another Keith Emerson one from the movie Murderock (one I quite enjoyed, to be honest).

The words to this crack me up only because it seems like sometimes the lyrics are very clear and then she's going: "There's a chorsh az gorse like der a bor reh roh yeah!" in between. I swear one line is "Each and every night, inside a vol-au-vent..."