 Welcome to the Adam does movies podcast. I'm Adam Halloween's right around the corner So I thought what better way to celebrate than prepare a list of the top 10 best horror movie Soundtracks basically the theme songs that I can't live without are they the definitive? I put it together. So yeah, I think I think it is Now obviously it's subjective. We're all gonna have different tastes. We're all gonna have different ideas of what Constitutes as iconic and the greatest, but I'm very I'm very proud of this list. I put together I took some notes. I shout out all the composers on here And I give a small little synopsis of the movie itself to kind of you know trigger My memories of it and just help me flow through this podcast without stumbling over my own words and trying to think of things Anyway, I'd love to know if you are enjoying these podcasts. I've been doing them for a couple months now I'm having a good time. I hope you are too if you're watching on YouTube, please. Let me know leave a comment like it share it Believe in it if you are on Spotify or Apple podcasts or any podcast service of your choice I'd love a like there to rate it do whatever you need to do to share this and get this known to the world Because I need the support. I would really appreciate it. All right before I begin I want to also point out that Upcoming on the live show which I do two times a week a lot of these also get put up to podcasts I'm going to be covering the scream movies. We've been going through them as a family really enjoying them I think it's one of the most consistently solid horror movie franchises around you look at things like Halloween it very much dips in quality Over the course of the films you look at Friday the 13th the same thing can be said I mean across the board. It's kind of a complete shit show But scream even at its lowest point which to me is scream 3. I still stand by that so far from what I've watched It's very entertaining. There's still some fun in there. There's still some great kills some good twists You're still engaged with it. Yeah, I think scream is an absolute win across the board I would love to hear your thoughts. Anyway, I'm gonna be talking about that in an upcoming episode and again I'm talking about Movie scores today soundtracks from scary films, but we got a lot to cover I mean, I want to do an episode on my favorite movie themes favorite movie scores just full stop whether it's Harry Potter or Star Wars or whatever. I want to do a list of those maybe 20 Maybe 30 we'll see where it takes us that will probably be a live episode Maybe early net maybe late next week. Maybe the following after we get out of October And that way I can get your support and your participation in the comments there when we do a live All right, let's start with our list and we're going to do one Shoutout I have 10 on mine. I have one special shout out to a TV show because this is a movie list not TV List but I have to mention Stranger Things that intro With the synth wave sound which really is a call back to the 80s with things like the Terminator and Halloween And the thing Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein From the band survive compose this I'm looking over at my notes right now because there's no way I'd remember any of that They are the ones that did this theme. I think it's one of the most iconic new scores We've had in a long time since probably The Harry Potter theme honestly, I can't think of anything that rivals that in terms of stain power in terms of oh my god When I hear this sound I think immediately of this and that's what we have with the Duffer brothers the brothers Stranger Things TV series Alright, this is in no particular order. I see I kind of started with the best of the best and that's probably fine and expected Halloween At the tender age of six Michael Myers without warning stabs his sister he gets sent off to prison 15 years later He comes back home to finish what he started go on more of a killing rampage This movie has withstood the test of time. This is John Carpenter at his finest right at me This is the same guy that brought us the thing. He is a vision. He's a visionary and his vision is scary This is extra fun because The the the budget for Halloween was three hundred thousand dollars That's nothing that's less than nothing for a feature length film So John Carpenter had nothing left in his wallet to hand over to a composer So what's he do? Well, he grabs he grabs himself a local synth player and he does it himself He comes up with five or six different versions of this theme and what he ends with is an absolute banger This thing is a driving force for Michael Myers as he pops out of bushes as he just stands Omnously in the distance staring you down This film this score really brings you into the picture It's just a threatening vibe and you hear it everywhere every Halloween It'll be played when you go up to doors and grab candy. It'll be played when you're mugging a child for their candy It's there somewhere and when you think about it, you think where's Michael? Where is this psychotic? 21 year old wielding a knife and a mask and a piss-poor attitude. Where is he hiding? I love I love this score and I really just have to say music is such an important part This is an obvious right music is such an important part of movies a Major theme song can elevate a film I can't really honestly think of an amazing movie that doesn't also have an amazing theme with it All of my favorite movies I mean like the godfather Tremendous score Jurassic Park Obviously the matrix they all have iconic timeless soundtracks And they they elevate the material that's the important piece is they elevate the material They're a perfect companion speaking of that Psycho is the next one on my list. Marion Crane is on the lamb after stealing $40,000 This is pretty much a red herring though It has nothing to do with the actual plot which is her taking shelter at the Bates motel This thing's run by Norman Bates to say he's got a few screws loose would be an understatement. This guy is not well He's peeping on the people He's got his own little video collection of some of the people that have been staying there over the years and Crane's gonna find out the hard way What happens when you don't really succumb to his advances She gets stabbed several times in the shower and one of the most Not to overuse the word iconic But it really is one of the most iconic scenes in movie history The beautifully framed black and white shot of her freaking out as the knife blades go in And you hear that score by the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock As that blade goes in Bernard Herman Is the one responsible for this composition We see that blood spinning down the drain Oof The re-re-re the re-re-re-re it's been parodied. It's been mimicked. It's been studied It's been utilized so many times over the years in film But we know where it started We got gremlins A gadget salesman brings home a Christmas present for his son Billy Chaos ensues A mogwai comes out of that box I can't do his whistling, but it's beautiful. His music is absolutely beautiful What's not so pretty is what he turns into when he's fed after midnight or gets wet I think it has the same effect. I'm not honestly. I'm not really sure if there's is there a difference Whatever whenever he gets wet a bunch of ugly ass offspring fly out and they turn into these disgusting Gremlins, they're gonna terrorize everything. We all know the movie. I would imagine I think this is a oh, I was gonna say Danny Elfman, but it's not it's Jerry Goldsmith The the theme song is the gremlin rag You can hear some drums to start things out followed by that terrific fun upbeat yet dark almost Tim Burton-esque Theme song that goes throughout this movie and the sequel and that new animated show that I don't know anybody watches This This is such a great theme and I really Honestly, don't think this movie would be near as much of a classic if this didn't knock it out of the park But it does and the movie is a classic It's good All right speaking of Danny Elfman here he is and again It's got a Tim Burton feel but this time it's very appropriate because this is a Tim Burton movie Beatlejuice After Barbara and Adam die in a car wreck not me a different Adam played by uh Alec Baldwin They elicit the help of a sketchy sketchy spook named Beatlejuice To help remove the new homeowners. There's new people that moved into their house because they died And so Beatlejuice comes along. He's like hey you want to get these guys out of here? I'll do it. Just you know you hold me up. I'll help you up. It's it's it's Michael Keaton always awesome Just as we got a sequel coming out for Beatlejuice a million years later Sequels coming out. I'm scared. I haven't seen any Tim Burton movies in a long time that I've liked But he used to make some bangers Actually, I'm gonna be watching one On halloween with my family. I'm actually very excited about this. I haven't seen sleepy hollow In a long-ass time. Is that Tim Burton? I've never looked that up sleepy Hollow director. It's got to be Tim Burton. Okay, it is. Whoo. Yeah, Tim Burton did sleepy hollow Johnny Depp. I believe Christie Now I'm gonna see now I didn't write notes for this now I'm gonna screw up the Adams family or Christina Ricci. I think sleepy hollow IMDb, let me look really quick because I don't want to I don't want to say a bunch of stupid stuff I think it's Christina Ricci. Yeah, Christina Ricci Johnny Depp Michael Gambon's in this Okay Casper Van Dion What Yeah, Christopher walk Christopher walking has like a two second cameo at the beginning because he's the headless horseman when It starts That's so funny the Casper Van Dians and it's from starship troopers He was kind of the up and coming actor for a while and then just completely fell in its face started doing a bunch of straight to vhs straight to dvd movies like viper which is a Basically a clone of anaconda. Viper is hilariously bad. I love that movie Let me stay focused though. Yeah, this is a Danny Elfman movie It's very playful. It's very wacky Like it's tim burden down to a T. Oh down to it down to a T When the something's strange in your neighborhood This is a song that's played at every roller rink in existence Now roller rinks don't really exist. So that was a sad statement and it aged me horribly But I used to love going there skating my heart out to this theme song. Oh man ray parker jr Let's let's talk about the synopsis gozer and his minions start terrorizing new york city Who are you gonna call? well a few schlubby guys that Really can't seem to make ends meet Scientists that are a little out of their gourd. You have a human equivalent of a used car salesman with bill murray This is such a awesome team of guys coming together to try to flip a quick buck But in the process, they're actually saving the city It's in a hole. It's a hilarious premise with really funny people. Plus, you got sagorny weaver in here I mean everything's a win rick moranis is in the mix Yeah, I love this movie ray park. You know who else loves this movie and the theme song is hui luis in the news This just in ray parker jr You're getting sued hui luis Says hey, you know what this song sounds an awful lot like a new drug And they're not wrong. I want a new drug has that, you know It's very close. So they did end up suing ray parker and winning they settled It's a sad situation. I love both of these songs and I don't actually Honestly ever conflate the two There's a song by vanilla ice. You may have heard of it. It's called ice ice baby, which is almost identical to a queen song I forgot the name of the queen song, but uh the background beats can Almost identical and uh, vanilla ice is He's like, no, there's there's one more. There's one more. Duh Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Very funny and I don't I think he won that too. So yeah, you just never know Get better lawyers All right jaws Martin Brody attempts to save a small town From a shark attack after a young woman is brutally killed at the beginning of the film He's like, hey, you know what there's a shark Cruisin the coast Let's keep everybody at bay Uh the local officials not so thrilled on that idea, especially when this is the big season All the tourists come in it brings a lot of money and if the beach is closed So are the cash registers So is the funding for the year Oh, they're gonna keep this open. Martin has to take it into his own hands. He gets the help He solicits the help from a local shark hunter Name quint. He he's he's the best of the best at least that he knows He's also very dicey, but he's gonna get the job done and then you have a I wrote the name down because again Ike theologist. I was gonna just say scientist, but hooper's an Ike theologist That's something that's something more specialized. He's from upstate He's a kind of a you know most smarty pants guy coming to this bumfuck area of usa to help solve this case and take down the shark And uh, it's it's it's gonna be crazy. But yeah, let's talk about the theme. This is a john williams classic Utilizing trombones a tuba and a few more instruments along with just two simple notes This haunts me Okay, as a child I was haunted by this theme It's been used again just like many of the other songs on here to great lengths and parodies It's just so damn catchy and simple and perfect And it does really elicit that fear in us that that that looming threat in the distance I can't see it, but I know it's there and whenever the song kicks in done done You know shit's about to go down Love it Here's one that some might not be expecting on the list Jigsaw wants to play a game with a bunch of bad people And that game is redemption Because jigsaw At the end of the day is trying to help people in his own sick sadistic way By putting them in the worst-case scenarios imaginable Hooking traps and contraptions and Really weird things to them for them to try to get out of otherwise There's going to be some bodily injury and you just better hope that it that it takes you out the first time around Or it could get pretty brutal pretty fast The theme hello zepp is by charlie clausser piano brass instruments Uh Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun I might not have that beat or that sound Very very accurate I just know that it's intense as shit and when it kicks in, you know, it's about to go down just like jaws It's it's it's so good It really plays off of all the hellish nightmare fuel that you're watching someone gets their face ripped off by a machine That's gonna snap after 30 seconds Jigsaw really doesn't put much time in the clock Now if he's really concerned for a lot of these people's well-being and really hoping to make Them better, maybe throw more than two minutes on the board, dude Sometimes they have to like soak out a bunch like cut out a bunch of their fat And squeeze it out to get some of the liquids into a jar which sets off a whole mousetrap situation Make the guy hop into the pool and the cage comes down. That's mousetrap It's it's not good I'm starting to think jigsaw doesn't really care about these people at all all right Two priests walk into a bar in order an exorcism I don't actually have a punchline for this setup joke I just have a little girl that's very troubled and she's very much possessed in the hit film the exorcist a Classic a legendary classic that they're trying to bring back for the 50th time It's like the fifth or sixth one. I think that's Actually part of the original there's of course the popes exorcist the exorcist of emily rose lots of exorcism movies But now they're trying to do the halloween thing and bring it back with this new one That's supposed to be part of a trilogy They paid 400 million dollars for the rights to the franchise just completely asinine And david gordon green's movie is not great His first attempt at a modern Exorcist film not good Not good and we got two more of these good luck because I don't know how well this is being received Well, it's not being very well received. I know that by critics But what is well received is the theme song for the exorcist Mike oldfield's tubular bells was a happy accident. I actually Looked this whole thing up. It's kind of fun. This is the quick synopsis at only 19 He composed this piece for his own record the tubular bells that I said But after minimal success it was later discovered by director william freitkin during a meeting Or freed can apologize for naming it was put in the picture shortly after the piano work here is legendary, obviously Essentially what happened is mike tried to make a full album on his own at 19 years old. He had this song called tubular bells It's really good Finally got the album distributed did not do well for numbers didn't really make any waves Later on it's acquired by a different studio who put some of the music in front of the director of the exorcist He loved tubular bells and that the rest is history It goes on the movie People are very happy except for I believe mike the composer. He's not he's not too thrilled that it was kind of like Just thrown on there without his knowledge So there was some back and forth and you know, you can look it up if you want any more information But uh kind of a fascinating story on its own And really I mean my god What an what a freaking great piece this is the piano work is very haunting. It's it's it's beautiful in its own way Not as beautiful as the next one on my list Which is from the candy man An urban legend becomes reality for recent college graduate Helen Lyle as she comes face to face with the candy man People need to stop calling it. Yeah, I noted this and I need to stand by it People need to stop going in front of mirrors and saying the names of other things spirits demons what not Just stop saying shit. You don't need to go save candy man five times in front of a mirror You don't you certainly don't need to yell beetle juice a bunch of times or drop dead fred That that's a full on nightmare drop dead freds one of the scariest movies ever created That character is awful and horrific in all the all the wrong ways philip glas composes What I really think is just like a pretty haunting song It's way different than anything else on this list Candy man is a really smart sophisticated Layered movie that I think more people need to give a chance. I never gave it a chance until way later in life I watched it two or three years ago for the first time. I thought it was going to be some schlocky lame Bee movie, but no, it's it's damn good. The shots the way it's Just everything about it. It's really well done. The presentation is great And the music is just another piece of that that really elevates the material Okay, last and certainly not least. This is one of my favorite movies on the list is the shining Jack torrents takes his family up into the mountains where they will spend the winter in complete isolation at the beautiful overlook hotel the good news jack Takes care of that writer's block that he has the bad news Jack's not a great writer In fact, he's also pretty redundant and sloppy. We get it jack. You're bored Okay, we get it. You're a dull boy Move on already Well, he's got bigger problems. There's something going on at the hotel. His son has the shining which is a Kind of a special ability like a mutant power where he can see the dad communicate It's it's a very it's a rare ability Some would say it's a disability, but I think that it's helping him in the long run It's it it allows him to get away from his psychotic dad who apparently has been at the overlook hotel For a very very long time at least in some fashion. This is a trippy movie I'm a big fan stanley kubrick made gold He spun gold and he also really liked the classical music in his films This is no different. Wendy carlos and rachel elkin. How do I say that? Wendy carlos and rachel elkind they Used synthesized sounds from dave smith God i'm butchering. I'm at the end. I'm on my last leg and I can't uh, I can't finish this off strong They use synthesizer sounds from dave smith instruments. I don't know what dave smith instruments are I'm not a musical guy. I like music a lot, but I don't know what that means What are dave smith instruments? In 1977 dave designed the sequential circuits profit five the world's first fully programmable polyphonic synth And the first musical instrument with okay. This is just this is just a bunch of words Either just a bunch of words. I don't know bottom line is this has an organ sound to it Very disturbing yet also kind of lovely. It reminds me of old-ass giant cathedrals And I grew up catholic So it kind of creeps me out because a lot of those cathedrals have creepy basements Dwellings underground areas usually just cement with some brick poles holding the place up Anything goes down there. You walk down there. You're you're basically in sin city Nobody else is around usually once in a while you hear a noise off in the distance in a dark corner And that's where I feel like the shining song kicks in And I am I'm out I'm completely out the song is brilliant the movie is brilliant And these are I think the best Scary movie songs you can play at this time of year You put these songs on at your front porch when the kids come up to get candy They're either going to be dancing their ass off to some ray parker junior Or they're going to be running for the hills With some kubrick Either way, it's a win It depends on what mood you're going for Give them some gremlins. Give them some beetle juice. They have a good time You throw in a little halloween soundtrack Yeah, the you can even throw in a little halloween 3 season of the witch That movie sucks in my opinion, but man, that's a banger score That's a banger score, especially the Good stuff. I'll end on that terrible singing Let me know your thoughts on my list. Do you agree with it? Do you have more to add? There's always more to add There's always more to add Put them in the comments below Again, like the video share it subscribe if you're new here, whether it's the podcast or it's on youtube It's taster's choice really subscribe to all of them. 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