Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies

Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies

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gojimag84 I've adored the Expanded Version for quite some time but this shorter version just packs a punch. It is terse and enthralling, and just might be some of John's greatest work. Favorite track: Halloween Triumphant.

Biscuits Brown Another excellent soundtrack from a master craftsman. Favorite track: The Shape Hunts Allyson.

brantly I once read Stockhausen's 'Kontakte' described as, 'pianistic anxiety,' which I love, and when listening to this I thought, it's also well applied here, as both compositions are frightening, for very different reasons, but this is pure terror in its most diluted, windswept, icy, unhinging form...Carpenter is horror movie Stockhausen! Also comes with a fold out Michael Meyers shooting range target, but I hate guns, so I throw bananas at it, which lightens the ominous mood considerably

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1.	Intro 01:14	buy track
2.	Halloween Theme 03:02	buy track
3.	Laurie's Theme 00:44	buy track
4.	Prison Montage 02:46	buy track
5.	Michael Kills 00:33	buy track
6.	Michael Kills Again 03:45	buy track
7.	The Shape Returns 03:32	buy track
8.	The Bogeyman 01:06	buy track
9.	The Shape Kills 00:50	buy track
10.	Laurie Sees the Shape 01:13	buy track
11.	Wrought Iron Fence 00:47	buy track
12.	The Shape Hunts Allyson 00:58	buy track
13.	Allyson Discovered 01:26	buy track
14.	Say Something 03:02	buy track
15.	Ray's Goodbye 01:39	buy track
16.	The Shape Is Monumental 01:57	buy track
17.	The Shape and Laurie Fight 01:54	buy track
18.	The Grind 01:52	buy track
19.	Trap the Shape 02:10	buy track
20.	The Shape Burns 01:31	buy track
21.	Halloween Triumphant 07:28	buy track

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When the new Halloween movie hits theaters in October 2018, it will have the distinction of being the first film in the series with creator John Carpenter’s direct involvement since 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Carpenter serves on the new David Gordon Green-directed installment as an executive producer, a creative consultant, and, thrillingly, as a soundtrack composer, alongside his collaborators from his three recent solo albums, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.

The new soundtrack pays homage to the classic Halloween score that Carpenter composed and recorded in 1978, when he forever changed the course of horror cinema and synthesizer music with his low-budget masterpiece. Several new versions of the iconic main theme serve as the pulse of Green’s film, its familiar 5/4 refrain stabbing through the soundtrack like the Shape’s knife. The rest of the soundtrack is just as enthralling, incorporating everything from atmospheric synth whooshes to eerie piano-driven pieces to skittering electronic percussion. While the new score was made with a few more resources than Carpenter’s famously shoestring original, its musical spirit was preserved.

“We wanted to honor the original Halloween soundtrack in terms of the sounds we used,” Davies explained. “We used a lot of the Dave Smith OB-6, bowed guitar, Roland Juno, Korg, Roli, Moog, Roland System 1, Roland System 8, different guitar pedals, mellotron, and piano.”

Unlike the Lost Themes albums, where the composers wrote the soundtracks for imaginary movies, Halloween saw the Carpenters and Davies collaborating on music set to images for the first time. Though it marked a significant change from their previous creative process, the trio thrived under the constraints and tight deadlines that film scoring work demands.

“Being limited by the length of time in scoring the sequence, we focused on the director’s tempo, timing, and vision,” Davies said. “He would tell us what he had in mind, how long the cue should be, what emotion he wanted, and we would take it from there. It’s only the three of us, there is no elaborate system. We wrote, performed, and orchestrated everything.”

For John Carpenter, who reunited on the new film with original Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis, composing the score felt like a homecoming. Not only had he not worked on a Halloween movie in 35 years, he hadn’t composed a soundtrack since his 2001 sci-fi thriller Ghosts of Mars.

“It was great,” Carpenter said of the experience. “It was transforming. It was not a movie I directed, so I had a lot of freedom in creating the score and getting into the director's head. I was proud to serve David Gordon Green’s vision.”

For Cody Carpenter, John’s son, and Davies, his godson, it was surreal to work on something that means so much to generations of fans, and that they grew up around.

“It was an honor for us to be involved, and we are really happy to be a part of something that so many people are anticipating and excited about,” Davies said. “Working together with both the director of the new Halloween and the creator of the original Halloween was really a fantastic experience.”

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John Carpenter has been responsible for much of the horror genre’s most striking soundtrack work in the fifteen movies he’s both directed and scored. The themes that drive them can be stripped to a few coldly repeating notes, take on the electrifying thunder of a rock concert, or submerge themselves into exotic, unholy miasmas. It’s work that instantly floods his fans’ musical memory. ... more

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