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Friday, July 5, 2013

Make it spooky

Besides the fact that scary movies are fun to watch, the background music makes them 20 times better!

Let us look into that.  Jaws is one of the greatest movies.  Steven Spielberg's minimal use of the shark makes it that much more scary when the monster does pop out of the water.  But one of the most famous aspects of the movie is that music:  duh nuh....duh nuh....duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh - I think you know what I'm trying to say.
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A movie that I can never resist to watch during the Halloween season is of course Halloween.  John Carpenter is the master composer.  We all know a majority of his work and we always find them to fit each movie or TV show perfectly.  While John Carpenter is the ultimate composer, Michael Myers seems to be the ultimate killer.  I think the theme for the movie really fits his character, don't you think?

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Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" is the famous theme from blockbuster The Exorcist.  This song being the theme for the movie is as iconic as the scene when Father Merrin arrives at the MacNeil household.  It seems as if no other creation would've worked as well as this piece does for this film.  

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