Jerry Goldsmith's Grim Reaper Theme - Boris Karloff's Thriller

Jerry Goldsmiths dynamic and unusual Grim Reaper theme for Boris Karloff's Thriller, which ran between 1960-1961. The episodes often had their own individual title themes. As you can tell, this show should be watched in a big dark house with many floors late at night when you're all alone.

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Entertainment

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• Boris
• Karloff
• Thriller
• Jerry
• Goldsmith

[CrashingCrockery]

Ah, THIS must be why "The Hungry Glass" does not appear intact here - that annoying copy-right-y stuff, hence my only finding that last three minutes of it-! And now I am curious what episode the above images were from! Maddening!

[axecalibore]

@CrashingCrockery "The Grim Reaper". The whole series is out on DVD which makes the copyright stuff even worse. When people put up the whole thing it just gets taken down. It happened with this one.

[axecalibore]

Because Thriller is finally coming out on DVD in august or something, so they're getting all copywritey about it. Good news and bad news.

[axecalibore]

I bought the Thriller laserdisc box set in October 1994. It only had 6 episodes chosen at random, without such brilliant classics as The Hungry Glass and The Cheaters. I have a USB audio capture gadget to get the sound. It's called Xitel Inport.

[axecalibore]

-As far as isolating the sound goes, the musical theme for an episode of Thriller would run during the end credits. I added an extra bit from the dramatic finale to the beginning of the track.

[CrashingCrockery]

@axecalibore Oh, I see now- thanks!...At least I know they are all available now, used to just be those few select VHS episodes.

[rtayles]

This episode scared me to death as a youth and without all the computer gore, is far superior to the Outer Limits and Twilight Zone.

[hauntedscarecrowmurd]

I'm an outer limits and twilight zone fan! thriller in someways is superior to twilight zone!...film noir just adds to the cold gothic creepiness...and the occult is everywhere! (1000 time superior to night gallery!) wow!

[hauntedscarecrowmurd]

thriller is high quality gothic terror served up cold! (just saw john newland in return of mr. bentley or some title...) excellent!...how can a 50 year old tv anthology be far superior to anything today?...ghost stories are timeless and the fear of death and the spirit world haunts us all! forever!...

[QueensLadyDay]

This episode is at the iTunes store for FREE!! Check it out:)

[Reflect321]

The eerie, powerful music of this episode perfectly complemented the climax of each scene. "The Grim Reaper", along with "The Weird Tailor", was one of the best episodes of the series.