"'Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make,' intoned Bela Lugosi in 1931's Dracula. Ironically, this much-lauded Tod Browning film suffers terribly today because of its lack of music; except for the excerpt from Swan Lake heard over the titles and an orchestra playing at a concert hall, Dracula does not feature any other music, making it a bit of a slog for modern audiences. This example illustrates the importance of music in horror; could you imagine Psycho without those shrieking violins in the shower scene or the opening of Jaws sans John Williams' immortal Duuun dun duuun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun…?
So fire up the hi-fi as we put forth our favorite horror movie soundtracks on the turntable of terror."
Michael Moore used the "Ave Satani" theme from The Omen to great effect in his own horror movie, Fahrenheit 11/9.
