With his usual collaborator John Williams hard at work on the score for E.T. Cult trash nerds should be interested to know that McCallum also penned the soundtrack to the bonkers late-night classic Miami Connection – get in. Finally released this year by Strange Disc, it’s a synth-led collection of trashy burners, with composer John McCallum tapping into his inner John Carpenter, albeit with an even lower budget. Notorious Troma-affiliated genre flick Surf Nazis Must Die might not exactly live up to the promise of its brilliant title, but the soundtrack has aged surprisingly well. Although cash was evidently tight (as an economising measure, they filmed 1974 Blood for Dracula straight after using the same cast and sets), Flesh was filmed in primitive 3D, and came with a score that’s much more affecting and hi-res than it really ought to be – a selection of rich, romantic compositions for orchestra, with pastoral segues and a touch of B-movie shonkiness for good measure.

Stream the list as a single YouTube playlist.ĪKA Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein – a grisly splatter-comedy directed by the great American nose-tweaker.

Readers of a nervous disposition – look away now. It’s been a total labour of love, and special thanks are due to exemplary horror specialists Death Waltz Recording Company and One Way Static, whose assistance was invaluable in assembling this list. Bear in mind however that this is a list of original soundtracks, which eliminates classics such as The Shining, The Exorcist and, err, The Return of the Living Dead. Cult classics and video nasties are amply represented: for every Carpenter and Craven flick, there’s a Surf Nazis Must Die or Slumber Party Massacre. The following list runs the gamut from curios to blockbusters, from fan-assembled bootlegs to charting LPs. You can see why people devote hundreds of hours – and thousands of dollars – to hoarding (and, increasingly, reissuing) this stuff.

Yes, you’re never too far away from a brooding analogue synth, but the subculture of horror soundtracks is immensely rich and full of surprises. The range of music available on horror scores is similarly kaleidoscopic – funk, electro, EBM, folk, ambient and weirdo electronics have all been used to revolt, unsettle, or scare the LDs out of the unwitting viewer. The horror business is a broad and polytheistic church: a rowdy congregation of splatters, slashers, giallos, J-horrors and melts. Don’t believe us? Get to know these 100 chilling horror soundtracks, ranked in order of greatness. Horror scores are for life, not just for Halloween.

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