The Fly Soundtrack - Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4

[mrblondeno2]

they dont make them like this anymore!

[TheAltair4]

Brilliant score to a brilliant film!

[Johnlindsey289]

@TheAltair4

Indeed, Howard Shore is one of our fave composers ever. Did you see this in theaters? i did when i was a kid and creeped me out yet introduced me to David Cronenberg, one of the best remakes ever

[TheAltair4]

@Johnlindsey289 I did see it in theaters as a kid and it grossed me out big time. David Cronenberg is a brilliant filmmaker.

[softlikesilk]

"you ever heard of insect politics?"



[xDangerouslyAwkwardx]

0:50

Remember the scene in The Return of the King where Gothmog, the Orc-chieftan, says "The age of Men is over.... the time of the Orc has come!" Same exact music playing. Go look it up and see for yourself!

Just a fun fact.

[vroota42]

The 70s and the 80s were the best decades for horror!!!

[YanStofurst]

Hellraiser and The Fly are my two favorite horror scores. Both are evily haunting masterpiece

[LoveIsrael89]

Does anyone know what the melody sounds in the trailer for the film?

[neodevilbane]

@LoveIsrael89 Around 3:24



[vivalaminion]

Exorcist is overrated, the shining is okay, but not scary...you're last three are good though

[spiritgirl41192]

@KyleGibbons91 Amen, man! Amen!

[spiritgirl41192]

"I'm saying...I'm saying I-I'm an insect...who dreamt he was a man...and loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake."

"No, no...No, Seth..."

"I'm saying...I'll hurt you if you stay."

[CKtheDJ]

one of the best movie scores ever intense scary and really made the movie.

[undeniablyjeff]

Wonderful. Thanks so much for doing this.

[spiritgirl41192]

No. No, I can't. No, I can't! No. No...No, God! *shoots Brundlefly and then collapses to her knees sobbing*

[1blaircamp]

5 greatest horror movies

1.the eorcist

2.the shining

3.The thing

4.Alien

5.The fly

[Johnlindsey289]

@1blaircamp

Do you think this movie and The Thing are 2 remakes that improve on the hokey originals? the original 50's movies were products of their time which had good ideas but they didn't had the technology to do the ideas justice back then.

[marvelmax03191]

@Johnlindsey289 they also didn't have the balls to pull off shit like this haha!

[Johnlindsey289]

@marvelmax03191

You mean on gore?

[marvelmax03191]

@Johnlindsey289 Yeah haha and the design of the creatures in them haha! Also the way that the remakes of the thing, the blob, and the fly ended. The originals weren't nearly as gloomy in their endings. In the Blob, the psycho priest still has a piece of the creature that he plans to unleash on the world, the thing had only two survivors who didn't know if each other were human, and the fly was killed by his crying girl friend with a shotgun to the head.

[carlthompson170]

@1blaircamp My god. That's MY top 5...

[1blaircamp]

@carlthompson170

oh really ??

[LOTRWargaming]

i was told to come here cuz of Gothmog thing

[supapico]

One of the best. Agree to comments above.

[daisyhinojosa23]

Howard Shore FTW!!!

[itsallinallston]

This is how Howard Shore got to write for Lord of the Rings! Peter Jackson loves it.

[irishduck101]

1 person is a fly.

[kokomanation]

@irishduck101 or a cockroach who got jealous

[velvetmafia187]

ahh the 1980's. gotta love that decade of decadence. the 5 greatest horror films came out that time: Poltergeist, the thing, the fly, hellraiser and an american werewolf in london.

[Jadama0]

Track 4 makes me think of Resident Evil Director's cut on the PS.

[Jadama0]

I love track 2!

[23WhiteFlag]

better to get one in your soup than in your telepod.

[Davyleek]

Has to be the best horror movie i can think of , it throws you into the emotions of what if this was you and your partner type scenario , soundtrack is amazing and makes you sad everytime you listen to it and watch it

[Canisticus]

Shore deserved an Oscar for this magnificent work. I've just finished reading George Langelaan's book where the original short story "The Fly" is included, and this score fits perfectly with the dark, solemn mixture of tragedy and wonder he crafted for his imaginative tales.

[comicbookguy90]

god this movie is so great. I love it and i just saw it recently but it was good. if they remake it, it's gonna suck ass

[BoasorDie]

@comicbookguy90 but they remade this like 3 times. but the 80's movie with jeff goldblum should be the last cuz that was the best one!

[crabbypants1978]

@comicbookguy90 Yes it will. Hollywood really sucks now with it weak display of compasion for cinema and their cookie cutter film making. CGI will kill this movie.

[spiritgirl41192]

@crabbypants1978 Well, I hear Cronenberg will be remaking this remake.

[Johnlindsey289]

@comicbookguy90

Did you know this movie is a remake of that hokey 50's b-movie?

[SuperMMTV]

5:30 "NO...NO...NO!"

[harsawa]

I love this movie. Croneyboig is my favourite director. This movie is the apex of horror for me.

In a weird way, I think this is where Howard Shore hit his stride. I hate admitting it but his work in films prior was crap. Yet this was his first truly great soundtrack, and save for a couple duds he's been putting out great stuff ever since.

[tpfang56]

@harsawa What about "Videodrome" and "Scanners"? Those soundtracks were pretty good as well. I mean, they weren't nearly as emotional as "The Fly" and definitely not as good, but they weren't meant to be this emotional or operatic. The strange, trippy, electronic soundtrack for those two movies were not too bad.

[Hot5six4231]

@harsawa

What did you think of the Thing then? I love the fly don't get me wrong, but the thing scared me more.

[crabbypants1978]

@Hot5six4231 I have to say I liked them both but the THING is way scarier. Still my favorite flick of all time.

[HuDaFuK]

3:18 - my favourite bit of the movie. Such a token scene of Brundle walking down a street and yet it has such epic music.

[Aluchanmaker]

its so powerful..it has the emotions of the scenes in it..the desperation brundle and te sadness, the wrath, the madness..the love..howard shore is simply a genius.

[RANDOMdude123124]

When i was little my grandmother had this, and a first i thought it was about aliens because the title had been ripped off, so when i was 4 i asked if could watch it, and i did and let me tell you every time i saw a fly, i screamed.

[HuDaFuK]

@RANDOMdude123124 You watched this when you were 4?! I first saw it when I was 16 and I still thought it was horrific!

[RANDOMdude123124]

@ HuDaFuK Yeah my grandmaw was cool like that. my mom was upset but she got over it.

[RANDOMdude123124]

@HuDaFuK Oh, and i am a crazy fan of the fly. so i wanted one of the telepods, well Wal-mart doesn't carry such things. So i invested $60 and built my own LIFE SIZE model of the "Prototype Telepod" and it resembles the prototype. i just finish it a hour ago. Had a few problems with it.

[HuDaFuK]

@RANDOMdude123124 Lol just remember, if you decide to test it out - make sure there aren't any flies in there with you...

[RANDOMdude123124]

@HuDaFuK Ha Ha. Ok

[sarkissamuel]

FUCKING AMAZING AND EPIC!!!!!!!

[legauchefrappe]

this movie is really possesing me now, im watching it daily, listening to the sound track, watching deleted scenes, and everytime i saw a fly in the past two days i freaked out cause one stood there and i looked at it and it was very fuckin scary!

[spiritgirl41192]

@legauchefrappe Same for me, too! In fact, I got the soundtrack off of iTunes, and quick words of advice: Never listen to # 18 and 22 in the dark. I should know. On New Years Day, after midnight, I was asleep and listening to the soundtrack and when it got to 18, I woke up and my arms and legs started shaking. Then, when it was at 22, I was really scared, so I grabbed one of my pillows to hold onto.

[chrisfischerxxx]

a very underrated score . Sad, dark, majestic, mysterious and haunting this is definitely a well rounded score... I love it I especially love the cue in the insect politics scene when Jeff Goldblum says if Jeanie Davis stays he will hurt her then the music kicks in... it still gives me goosebumps love it only a few scores can do that

[vaxxon1]

@chrisfischerxxx, great call on that one. Shore is a genius.  Loved the movie but I've always felt that this was the case where the music was better than the film itself. Now DEAD RINGERS was a far better Cronenberg film with another, equally superb Howard Shore score.

[chrisfischerxxx]

@vaxxon1 it is a hard call 4 me because THE FLY still hits me hard to this day and I love all Cronenberg's work but I would say THE FLY and VIDEODROME are the 2 films that I saw as kid the blew my mind and that will be with me 4ever. I respect what you say & feel because I love all Cronenberg's work DEAD RINGERS is a great film I can't wait for the next ...

[vaxxon1]

@chrisfischerxxx, indeed. Don't get me wrong. I love THE FLY, and THE FLY II as well. Perhaps I was less impressed with THE FLY because it came out roughly the same time as James Cameron's masterpiece ALIENS. Now, THAT movie just completely bowled me over in a way that Cronenberg's film didn't.

[chrisfischerxxx]

@vaxxon1 thats understandable I love that film too. they both hold up like crazy and THE THING ... give me the puppet and the make-up ...

[irishduck101]

i fucking cried at the end of this

[irishduck101]

this movie is so sad i cried at the end of it

[gokyrj]

you kno where i can find the scen of the arm wrestle

[farita86]

@ spiritgirl41192 , yeh I read up on that cuz I always thought, wow, they look really convincing as a couple who are in love and hey turns out they were dating after all, yeh tiz a shame they split up but thats life.......I really love this movie lol, might have to watch it again

[spiritgirl41192]

3:49-6:14 will always be my favorite song out of the other songs from the soundtrack. I swear whenever I see this scene, I almost always start crying when Brundle whispers, "No," as he watches Veronica leave and he begins crying also.

[werecatgirl]

This is still one of my favorite movies. Very emotional and not over done like so many horror films today. The 80's and 90's had good films

[SwapMeetFlea]

2:24

" I'm saying I-- I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake... I'm saying... I'll hurt you if you stay."

One of the best lines in movie history, IMO. So great, so atmospheric, and you defo link Shore's music to overall impact of scenes like that.

[spiritgirl41192]

@ SwapMeetFlea Yeah.

Veronica: *looking like she's about to cry* No...No, Seth...

Brundle: I'm saying...I'll hurt you if you stay.

[jumpbox3]

@SwapMeetFlea no IMO about it! It is a great line i well up at the thought of it. one of the best films ever made!

[Johnlindsey289]

One of Howard Shore's best scores! him and Cronenberg always team up in some of his movies.

[montife]

2:20 gives a sense of fear, sadness and impending doom. 3:25 a realization of horror. To me what is so good about this film is the possibility of something like this actually happening in the future.

[RisingVictor]

I agree with you 100% on your opinion about the future probabilities.

Oh and to also add, the beginning sound somewhat like an opening to an orchrestra. I think what best about this movie besides the plot, actors, characters, probabilities, and special FXs is the musical score. I thought it added alot more drama to the movie than it really needed.

[farita86]

@Rising Victor, well said man, both him and Geena Davis (hope i spelt that right) were perfect in this film, the music complimented the scene beautifully

[RisingVictor]

Dont worry, spelt it right. ^^

[spiritgirl41192]

@ farita86 Fun fact about this movie: Goldblum and Davis were both boyfriend and girlfriend when they made this and got married. They ended up divorced in the '90s, unfortunately.

[RisingVictor]

@Bomberzone1745

I totally can see why. Its so intense.

[farita86]

The music is amazing, especially at the end where she has to do him in with the shotgun, how could you not shed a tear

[RisingVictor]

@farita86I You are so right. When I first saw that I cried. Jeff Goldblum is one of my favorite actors and to see him meet a terrible fate like that was just unbearible. What made it even more intense is the dramatic music. One of the only few times where the song delivers way too much dramatic tension than the movie really needs.

[nuttycracky]

excellent but music of the 2nd part is some more better

[tonyamalika]

I love this movie..

[Uoz]

That opening fanfare -- I get shivers every single time. What a way to start things off. Genius.

[RisingVictor]

@Uoz : I agree, at first it doesnt feel like it sets you in the right mood for the film. Then, it starts to sound more tradgic.

[OmegaOwA]

This movie is just depressing...but in the good way. Great movie and I think I don't think it should really be compared to the original The Fly. They're fairly different movies and should be considered separate imo.

[clotheslinefromhell]

beautiful soundtrack for a beautiful film

[peterSclarke]

more like a beautiful soundtrack for a GROSS film

[AutumnCrisp]

This has got to be my favourite soundtrack ever :D

[bea27997]

What soundtrack is the bar scene what number?

[AngelofMusic04]

#11 - The Armwrestle

[SpaceCadet1]

Plasma Pool - one the most painstakingly tragic themes in the history of film music? I'd say so.

[Johnlindsey289]

Anyone thinks this movie is similar to the Hulk movies?

[JOELFOSTERX]

Yep, very theyre slightly similar, both revolve around the basis of a corrupted by another half of himself that is in its true form a monster.

[depalma24]

"hulk movies?" This is how sad our movie going audiences is. Have you ever heard of Frankenstein? This. as well as The Hulk (especially Ang Lee's version) are inspired by that.

[Johnlindsey289]

I'm a movie buff and familar with Frankenstein, i have all those Hammer and Universal Frankensten movies. But i believe both Hulk movies are similar to The Fly, same kind of Sci-fi movies about scientists who conduct experiments on themselves going aray and becoming a monster.

[Johnlindsey289]

Brilliant soundtrack to one of the best remakes ever! Him and Cronenberg are also a great collabration.

[celaya4ever]

The first soundtrack would fit perfect in a Metroid game.

[krispykreme327]

Sounds a lot like Silence of the Lambs soundtrack... Howard Shore is one of the many great film composers!

[alfok]

SIMPLY AWESOME!!! Howard Shore is the BEST!!!!

[systemtel]

you like old school films?

[systemtel]

how sad can you get lol

[celophysis5454545]

This soundtrack always brings a tear to my eye. ;(

[ABNNINJA]

"I know an old lady who swallowed a fly..."

[merrimac291]

I thought it was very sad and dark.

[MrGDowson]

Me too. That's why I love it.

[frafroggy]

amazing soundtrack and film

[sweetsheila04]

stunning soundtrack that really captures the film and in my opinion the fly is one of the best horrors of the 80s and howard shore one of the great composeres

[McLarenMercedes]

@sweetsheila04

amen to that

[mwhite148]

The guy that composed this should have got an oscar or whatever they give to the people who compose film scores.

[jk31213]

an oscar...ur right lol

[AngelofMusic04]

While he may not have been recognized for The Fly (or Silence of the Lambs or Naked Lunch), at least Howard Shore finally got his due with LotR.

[jk31213]

he was recognized for silence...but who theh ell does naked lunch lol u know

[Johnlindsey289]

He does most of the Cronenberg movies like Brood, Naked Lunch, Scanners, Videodrome (Cronenberg's masterpiece), Crash (The old one), Eastern Promises and History of Violence.

[seehack]

Incredible film.

[MeneerTiki]

I was an insect who dreamed he was a man and loved it, but now the dream is over....and the insect is awake.

[TURBODORK2]

when u say ur a star trek fan people say geek, but they cant say that with THE FLY its incredibly creepy and some people cant sit through it

[a0040pc]

We'd be the Ultimate family

[artosin]

imponent music, for a classic!!!

[marvelmax03191]

such a phenomanol film score. amazing down to its very core and it really strikes a nerve. sooo powerful.

[DakotaHarris84]

Awesome!Thank you so much!

[voodoomagic2008]

Great to her this.

Classic

[laralila22]

Merci pour toutes vos supers musiques de films !