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What we’ve been talking about John Carpenter, the master of spooky films and even spookier music, is on his way to the Usher Hall in October, so we thought it might be fun to find out which pieces of music still send shivers down the spine. Our sample research also discovers that a fair number of ten-year-olds have watched some psychologically scarring movies
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The music from War of the Worlds scared the shitters out of me as a kid and had a lasting effect: I panic and
think aliens are coming
There’s a passage
about halfway through the
first movement of Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony, where the music
builds with tension and
foreboding. On a good recording
it’s seriously disturbing
Thanks to the
crappy noughties horror film, the seemingly sweet 30s classic song Jeepers Creepers
now puts me on edge
I first heard Tom Waits’ What’s He Building in There? on a dark night and
home alone. It’s so clever because it never mentions
anything criminal in particular, it’s more about paranoia and nosy neighbours
Goblin’s main theme from
Suspiria; it’s the creepy ‘la la las’ that really set you
on edge
End credits for It when the lights are still out in the room
The music from Halloween because after watching it as an impressionable young adolescent, I thought Michael Myers was gonna
get me
Who thought using In the Hall of the Mountain King to
advertise Alton Towers was a good idea? That’ll be where my fear of rollercoasters
stems from
Read the lyrics to Camouflage by Stan
Ridgway and tell
me you’re not scared
Lux Aeterna by György Ligeti
from the 2001: A Space Odyssey
soundtrack
sounds completely
alien and fits perfectly with the otherworldly imagery on screen
Midnight, the Stars and You by Al Bowlly.
Preferably with some
empty ballroom
reverb
Was thoroughly impressed with the It Follows
soundtrack which
transported me right back to
my ten-year-old self bingeing on horror films via
Sky Movies while sleeping over at
my gran’s
I used to play
Michael Jackson’s
Thriller in my
room really loudly
to scare away my four-year-old cousin who used
to follow me round
everywhere
It’s a toss-up between the
theme to Psycho or Halloween. But Halloween wins as it’s a wee bit more subdued which makes it scarier
The Jonathan Creek theme tune, an arrangement of
Danse Macabre.
That show is responsible for
my lifelong fear of dead bodies falling out of wardrobes
Aphex Twin’s music
Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells always takes me back to my ten-
is freaky enough year-old self, when
without Chris Cunningham’s videos. The skeletal
I first watched The Exorcist. I spent several
figure silently months afterwards
I can’t hear Blue Moon now
without thinking of American Werewolf
screaming at the old lady in Come to Daddy is the
stuff of acid techno nightmares
convinced I was possessed by
the devil
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