Bernard Herrmann - Cape Fear (theme)

[adzzy]

kelsey grammer Loves this song. till he sees a rake uhhhhmuhhh

[gibokubrick]

I write it in Italian... John Williams gli fa 'na pippa a Bernard Herrmann!

[VeilStig]

Now I finally get all of the references in that episode of the Simpsons.

[MrSirJoh]

Hello Bart

[Silverfox0984]

"one thrust....and the deed is done!"

[CitizenSweeps]

Ahhhhhh! Sideshow Bob!!

[Knopson]

Mitchum in this movie is one of my favourite villains ever!

[herringfly]

@Knopson

Not often cast as the villain - maybe not often enough. Have you seen Night of the Hunter? He is a spectacularly good villain there and the film itself is a work of art.

[Knopson]

Mitchum in this movie is one of my favourite villains ever

[msep0003]

Hello Bart! xDDDDDDDDD

[oldgoodrobert]

*Walks into a rake and get hit by it*

[madtodream]

LUCIFER'S BEARD..!!

[yuzu833]

hello...Bart... >:)

[21centurynostradamus]

music is good .

what about the comments ?  all ready read em .

[SerialThrilla23]

@21centurynostradamus allready read em

hahahahahhahahahahaha a fuckin genius !

[VAXTHRASHINATOR]

One person is afraid

[SSJ4Yujiro]

"Hey kids, wanna drive through that cactus patch?"

[SolarBlade52]

@SSJ4Yujiro

Yeah! Yes!....No!

Whoop, two against one!

[clovengoatlord]

Wow he did this, and vertigo? I had no idea. What an amazing talent.

[TheFowlyetti1]

@clovengoatlord and Psycho, and taxi driver, and Day the Earth Stood Still and more...

[DiamondTheJerk]

@TheFowlyetti1 is taxi driver good?

[TheFowlyetti1]

@DiamondTheJerk Yeah, especially the main theme

[PsykoReaper926]

This song plays all the time when I play hide-and-seek.

[AmadeusStatisitician]

This is my new theme song.

[jimmym35x]

Counsellor is that you? Cccoouunnsseeellooorr.

[freestyle9697]

"1" person is a rapist

[blablaidontcarewhour]

Mitchum is such a badass.

[EnjoyTheSurface]

mitchum is one cool customer

[iferraro]

You can hear this in Danny Elfman's Simpsons and Batman scores. Genius indeed.

[einootspork]

@iferraro Danny Elfman only wrote the opening theme for The Simpsons; Alf Clausen is the actual composer for the show.

[madahad9]

No one can do menace better than Bernard Herrman. I've been loading my Ipod with his music from various soundtracks and is great listening to whenever I go shopping or doing some other mundane chore----it gives it all a note of mystery.

[thelupoistheman1]

One of the greatest film scores ever. Horrifyingly beautiful.

[tylerf13ful]

great movie, i watched the scorsese remake yesterday, all respect goes to the original, but the remake was better.......also another great greg peck film is The Omen (1976)

[tylerf13ful]

i get the chills at the end of cape fear when her eyes in in neon black fucking sick

[CJTripleOne]

@tylerf13ful dude that's what I'm saying! watched it yesterday. . .

[RdVirus777]

this is one of the most menacing pieces of music ever. Just think of being awoken in the middle of the night by this music with someone standing over you

[amsterdan000]

Bob has broken out of prison again? :O

[KrazyKryz]

is this version taken from the original soundtrack or the bernstein reworkiing?

[Johniker]

Jerry.... hello! Jerry.... hello!

[JackieCh4n]

The counselor is obviously the one who gave this video a thumbs down

[TubeGunner]

One of the brilliant scores in film history. Perfectly fitting, as usual with Hermann. Whether it was films like this, or Hitchcock, or Taxi Driver, or TV themes and scores like Twilight Zone, Hermann was incredible.

[jonnyh1616]

such a good song for setting the tension in the film, have to admit, i have looked over my shoulder.......just to check

[washyourbraindaily]

Yep, used in the car commercial with the snow apocalypse. It fitted well.

[Wrkoutguy08]

I like the use of this song in the new commercial, but yes, it is one creepy ass song.

[Nickpatient]

Wow, Fantomas's version of this is so creative and different, yet so similar. Great piece of music.

[Babypuncher260]

perfect music to work out to.

[xxlamaxx1]

Sideshow bob blavxlaosmxka

[AfistfullOfFilm]

this is scary shit

[triadpairs]

A little fast for my taste - I think the film version was the perfect tempo. Thanks for sharing, definitely a very skillful interpretation.

[ZeldaFreak1987]

*steps on rake*

*steps on rake*

*steps on rake*

[evilegg288]

@ZeldaFreak1987 *low frustrated growl*

[BollockMcTesticles]

I'm Virgil and I'm guidin' you through the gates of Hell. We are now in the Ninth Circle, the Circle of Traitors. Traitors to country! Traitors to fellow man! Traitors to GOD! You, sir, are charged with betrayin' the principles of all three! Quote for me the American Bar Association's Rules of Professional Conduct, Canon Seven.

[cosmicdingo]

"Man like that's no better than an animal".

[theim4lucky]

OMG!!!!! SIDESHOW BOB!!!!!! <3 

[AlexBellis666]

They played this music in the background when I graduated High School.

[MJRookieRook]

@AlexBellis666 Are you serious ? Lol why this music ?

[AlexBellis666]

@MJRookieRook Cause' I'm the baddest motherfucker in the western hemisphere.

[MJRookieRook]

@AlexBellis666 LOL !! Okay =D

[peppersax]

I can't help but to think that that maybe BH was influenced a little by Mussorgsky's, Pictures of an Exhibition" when he composed this theme? I definitely hear 'glimpses' of the great Russian composer. BTW, BH is my all time favorite film composer. No one comes close!

[AlexBellis666]

@peppersax Yeah, can definitely hear that influence.

[LeonaRulez]

lol I cant stop thinking of Sideshow bob....and the rakes

[JasonVoorheesLives]

i want this to be my theme music

[radiootoo]

Remember Lori Martin in the great TV show, "National Velvet"? What ever happened to her? to that show? imdb it!

[mrperryjthomas]

Yeah,,this is a classic theme. How many know that the opening bars of the beginning of this theme was also used in Sam Raimi's third installment of his "Evil

Dead' trilogy/ It was the opening sequence where Ash (Bruce Campbell) is in chains

after being sucked by the time vortex back to the Dark Ages. It accompanies the

line where he states..."My name is Ash...and I am a slave" Cool.

[superjoesakic91]

who heard this on simpson before they saw the movie

[pmartins16]

@superjoesakic91 seeing the simpsons "cape feare" is the reason why i saw this movie

[trentmuch1]

@superjoesakic91

I heard this on Simpson!!!!!!

When that [schemeing] Simpson said "Hey, Buckley, use my hammer to extract that painful bacon"?

Well then, I became a lifelong fan. Such an elegant cachphrase.

Long live "Simpson". Played expertly by the late Richard Pryor. God bless his still actively employed soul.

[AmadeusStatisitician]

@superjoesakic91 WHEN WAS IT ON SIMPSON,FOR SIDESHOW BOB RIGHT?

[ZeldaFreak1987]

@superjoesakic91

"Use a pen, Sideshow Bob..."

[Kifly95]

MOM DAD SIDESHOW BOBS TRYING TO KILL ME!!!!

[AdamfMc]

@Kifly95 Don't interrupt.

[sergei1327]

that's one of the best psycho themes ever composed

[Mastervik93]

Olli Banjo - In deine Fresse!!!! :D:D

[sonadowilveramy]

I could have sworn...I heard this from a diffrent movie before...

[Filmzie]

@sonadowilveramy It's been heavily featured in The Simpsons as the theme of Sideshow Bob ever since an episode where they made fun of Cape Fear

[zuiderzee98]

@sonadowilveramy Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle The theme is altered somewhat, but you can hear it, especially after the big fire scene.

[idopuzoltv]

@sonadowilveramy its been in charlies angels 2!!! the intro scene of the guy in prison

[cr00mz]

awesome theme



[oismackhead]

Epic!

[gorgack2000]

Die, bart, die....

...What? It's german. The bart, the. You didn't think I'd actually want to KILL such an adorable young boy would you?

[soccerbabey]

COUNSELOR!!

[sixamsedna]

0:27-0:40 - is where it's at for me.

[sixamsedna]

my God, I've always loved Scorsese's Cape Fear, and the thing I loved the most about it is the score. Only recently I found out is that Scorsese utilized the original film's that Herrmann scored - which I obviously need to see - and which also explains why it was so surreal for a modern take of this film.

[redkitten8]

well Bart, any last request? °_°

[nitrorev386]

loved the original but haven't seen the remake, is it worth it?

[Besherk]

@nitrorev386 I hanen't seen the original but I have a hard time thinking that it would be better then the remake....so yes..its worth it

[Angele101006]

@nitrorev386 The original is better! I like Robert DeNiro, but he wasn't as scary as Robert Mitchum was.

[lupoistheman1]

@nitrorev386,

Yes, it is an amazing thriller. Bobby D is excellent.

[nitrorev386]

@lupoistheman1 I actually just saw it, it was just okay, but then again I am a pretentious douche

[EternallyGodBless]

Use a pen, Sideshow Bob!

[MrYorkyporky]

Make me want to go out a stab someone right now!

[1234vetter]

Olli Banjo sampled this in his song

"ich box in deine fresse"

[mackasaur]

Fantomas did an incredible job with this.

[raoultheduke]

getting afraid of both roberts when i hear this

[lupoistheman1]

Definition of incredible: Bernard Herrmann!

[Alkhir69]

This is the most badass theme ever.

[EmoWolf85]

Lol this is Sideshow Bob's Theme xD Creepy song.

[bryanz127]

i saw that cape feare episode on simpsons before the movie. it did kinda ruin it for me LOL HAHA.

[beggo1989]

one of the best Musical film score ever

[garyminion]

Thanks so much for uploading this. I just watched the Robert De Niro version last week for the first time.

thanks again for the theme tune

[Colt2571]

Herrmann was a genius but also existed in a time where producers didn't rule...if a composer today tries to produce a brilliant score, it wont sound like the thousands of other scores the producer is used to hearing on other blockbusters and the composer would be replaced...that's why every goddamn score today sounds the same. You really had to establish yourself before the 80s to do any brilliant work today (Williams, etc)

[SIngli6]

I disagree with you. While it's true there is little to distinguish most contemporary composers from each other (though I like Hans Zimmer), there wasn't much to distinguish most composers from the early fifties backwards either - I could tell you the soundtrack from A Place in the Sun was for Strangers on a Train and in all likelihood you'd believe me, even after seeing both those films. It was only from the late 50's to the end of the New Hollywood Era that film scoring became more advanced.

[Colt2571]

I agree with you, but I'm not referring to that, i'm talking about the 70s and 80s, after William's JAWS score made movie scoring so integral to the flick and part of its success...composers began to be much more important and became more respected, until the producers took over and everything started sounding generic.

[SIngli6]

You know I never liked 80's film music. It saw a rise in popularity towards the electric guitar and the (shutter) Sythesizer, the latter being the greater menace. I personally think film scoring began to be seen as integral after the success of the latter period of the famous Hitchcock- Herrmann collabrations (most notably the string-centred

[SIngli6]

Personally I think film scoring began to be seen as more integral to the success of a film after Bernard Herrmann's masterful, string-centred score for Psycho - not failing to mention, of course, Herrmann's excellent scores prior to Psycho for The Wrong Man, Vertigo, and North by Northwest.

[Evergreen6991]

Is that girl in the poster wearing pants?

[BreakerdeGodot]

Considering Mitchum's character, I wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't, but I think it's a skirt.

[cvergarabat]

this song was used in a episode of Simpsons....

Esta canción a usaron en un episodio de los Simpsons cuando Bob Patiño queria matar a Bart

[hitmancoolio]

Haha Sideshow Bob.

[DofsMartins]

@hitmancoolio Awesome episode! ^__^

[Houdini3241874]

one of the greatest composers ever!

[exbronco1980]

i think in the town of cape fear there is an orchestra (the cape fear orchestra) and all they do is play this song. lol

[IamKesyerSoze]

I live near Cape Fear, NC and no they don't.

[exbronco1980]

@IamKesyerSoze well they should

[furrowin]

number one herrmann is the best composer ever and number 2 IN MY OPINION mitchum was better because he was subtle i mean deniro who is usually good played it like raving drooling cartoon

[Filmzie]

De Niro did a better job because when they did it he was able to go further

when the original was amde there were certain thing you couldn't do

[pdm28cin]

Mr. Herrmann's music is so rediculously sick. Truly the work of genius.

[thelupoistheman1]

@pdm28cin,

IMO better than John Williams.

[furrowin]

envier we all have our opinions and u r entitilrd to urs

[furrowin]

deniro did a lousy job he overacted mitchum was far far far better .........

[Envier82]

I'd have to disagree on that one. Robert De Niro's "Max Cady" was much better than Mitchum's. Far more brutal and psychopathic.

[DTfanforever]

what are you talking about Robert DeNiro=automatic win. Also they kept this theme music which is awesome.

[VEGA3331]

The remake to me was better. Robert did a great job at being Max Cate.

[peppersax]

Bernard Herrmann was a freaking GENIUS! He's my favorite film composer. he alone started the suspense/terror/horror genre of composing. But he is human also. He loved Sibelius, Prokofief and Howard Hanson. In fact, the opening notes to this Cape Fear was inspired by a line in Hanson's 3rd symphony.

[DCMan06]

Incredible movie incredible theme song

[furrowin]

yes i agree he is one of the geatest composers

[0ct0parr0t]

wasnt this music on the simpsons once when SideshowBob tried to kill Bart?

[stevestoner13]

yes

[jdeluxtornadochaser]

Yeah, but what appear on the simpsons is versioned by alf clausen. But I couldn't find that version yet. :(

[JoyGrenade]

Yeah, this became Bob's theme music after the episode "Cape Feare".

[hjallapeno]

I think this music fits Bob.

[SagittariusChik]

This song is sooooo creepy but I like it.  Odd lol.

[9Ovechkin5]

I feel same lol :O

[dickypot]

If not the greatest film composer of all time!

[mitzjob]

are you kidding me?...one of the greatest composers of all time

[ArminVollmer]

Marvellous! Thank you! That is a very characteristic B. Herrmann piece. I have the (reduced) piano score now, trying to play it with saxophones and brass instruments.

Greetings from Germany!

[ShakespeareHamlet]

who minused me?

[deviantrake]

Blimey! A bit unfair whoever did that! Considering BH composed some classic film scores for Hitchcock it's a perfectly valid statement! Incidentally Cape Fear was directed by J. Lee Thompson, the 1992 remake by Martin Scorsese.

[ShakespeareHamlet]

thanks, man. I've seen a bit of the remake and this film; they're both pretty good. However, the scene in the remake where Max (Robert DeNiro, again at his villainous best) beats the clerk whom Bowden is seeing behind his wife's back scared the living daylights out of me.

[MJRookieRook]

@deviantrake It was 1991 - I'll never forget how scared I was when I first saw it

[Mrbluestarfilm]

@ShakespeareHamlet Max Cady? Or Sideshow Bob?

[ShakespeareHamlet]

the score sounds like Hitchcock directed "Cape Fear," but I doubt he did. anyway, another classic score from the composer of "Vertigo," "North By Northwest" & last, but certainly not least,

"Psycho," an excellent suspense film that inspired III wonderful sequels.