Post by JohanneSoulless on Jan 14, 2022 0:17:29 GMT
Let’s share your favorite [creepy] music used in movies, cartoons, video games, video installations… I could have omitted something, but feel free… and so on .
Optimistic contributions are quite welcome, but I think it’d be best to drop a describing remark so that people know what to expect.
My collection of score faves is very modest (yet), but I’m quite fond of it. The most inspirational horrific music I ever heard is created by Kenji Kawai (川井 憲次). He’s a prolific movie/anime composer, but I only checked out a few of his scores as of yet… I didn’t find a separate playlist for Ringu 1 score which includes only the first four tracks of this playlist (don’t pay attention to the numering). It’s as scary as it’s short though. My fave is Genes.
Just learned that KK also composed the Ringu 2 score. It’s noticeably different, although there are some variations on the Ringu 1 themes. Well, a couple of tracks sound attractive to me… However, I prefer his Dark Waters score which sounds like an extended and less spooky variation on the Ringu 1 score (all those movies were directed by Hideo Nakata and based on Koji Suzuki’s novels, so using similar music by one and the same composer seems consistent). My fave is Prisoner that changes from horror to uplifting lyrical melody.
And I don’t actually like Blue Sky, but poppy songs like that are often used for ending titles.The same goes for video games… I can’t usually listen to such feel-good stuff more then once .
Another horror movie score I like is by Disasterpeace (Richard Vreeland) for It Follows movie. I didn’t watch it but the plot description seems rather interesting. The score had been mentioned in an article about the best horror movie scores I read long ago. Most of them failed to impress me, but this one is quite disturbing. I feel uncomfortable sitting with my back to the door when I listen to the music .
Now let’s move to the scores for video games I never played . The Blasphemous score had been recommended to me by a friend, and hit close to home the very seconds I heard it. It was created by a Spanish composer Carlos Viola, and Spanish motives are very prominent here. I don’t go in for that though. What captivates me about the score is its solemn overt gloominess, which matches the game plot well (a Catholicism-inspired grim fantasy or something). The game art seems a bit unusual (that guy who wears a tall hat, lol), but interesting; I plan to give it a second glance sometime. It may add even more dark atmosphere to my perception of the score.
Some aspects of Castlevania video game series impressed me enormously as early as 2014 (although I remember trying to play its console version long ago, which left only dim and unfulfilling impressions; I think I was about 6). The main composer Michiru Yamane won over me many times (alas, I heard she’s not so great in other respects, but I didn’t check the info and I’m not sure I want to). Well, I’m not elated about just everything she creates, but half of it (at the very least) is wonderful. Maybe not too dark, but catching… Curse of Darkness includes some boring tracks, but others make up for that (to my mind). My all-time faves are Reviving Dracula's Castle and Metamorphosis to the Black Abyss of Death (seems it’s an old theme used in one of the earlier games), well, and Waltz of the Lazy Chair Room .
Oh and this. The first part is so-so, but the second is wow, so dismal. Great London After Midnight is always great .
Optimistic contributions are quite welcome, but I think it’d be best to drop a describing remark so that people know what to expect.
My collection of score faves is very modest (yet), but I’m quite fond of it. The most inspirational horrific music I ever heard is created by Kenji Kawai (川井 憲次). He’s a prolific movie/anime composer, but I only checked out a few of his scores as of yet… I didn’t find a separate playlist for Ringu 1 score which includes only the first four tracks of this playlist (don’t pay attention to the numering). It’s as scary as it’s short though. My fave is Genes.
Just learned that KK also composed the Ringu 2 score. It’s noticeably different, although there are some variations on the Ringu 1 themes. Well, a couple of tracks sound attractive to me… However, I prefer his Dark Waters score which sounds like an extended and less spooky variation on the Ringu 1 score (all those movies were directed by Hideo Nakata and based on Koji Suzuki’s novels, so using similar music by one and the same composer seems consistent). My fave is Prisoner that changes from horror to uplifting lyrical melody.
And I don’t actually like Blue Sky, but poppy songs like that are often used for ending titles.The same goes for video games… I can’t usually listen to such feel-good stuff more then once .
Another horror movie score I like is by Disasterpeace (Richard Vreeland) for It Follows movie. I didn’t watch it but the plot description seems rather interesting. The score had been mentioned in an article about the best horror movie scores I read long ago. Most of them failed to impress me, but this one is quite disturbing. I feel uncomfortable sitting with my back to the door when I listen to the music .
Now let’s move to the scores for video games I never played . The Blasphemous score had been recommended to me by a friend, and hit close to home the very seconds I heard it. It was created by a Spanish composer Carlos Viola, and Spanish motives are very prominent here. I don’t go in for that though. What captivates me about the score is its solemn overt gloominess, which matches the game plot well (a Catholicism-inspired grim fantasy or something). The game art seems a bit unusual (that guy who wears a tall hat, lol), but interesting; I plan to give it a second glance sometime. It may add even more dark atmosphere to my perception of the score.
Some aspects of Castlevania video game series impressed me enormously as early as 2014 (although I remember trying to play its console version long ago, which left only dim and unfulfilling impressions; I think I was about 6). The main composer Michiru Yamane won over me many times (alas, I heard she’s not so great in other respects, but I didn’t check the info and I’m not sure I want to). Well, I’m not elated about just everything she creates, but half of it (at the very least) is wonderful. Maybe not too dark, but catching… Curse of Darkness includes some boring tracks, but others make up for that (to my mind). My all-time faves are Reviving Dracula's Castle and Metamorphosis to the Black Abyss of Death (seems it’s an old theme used in one of the earlier games), well, and Waltz of the Lazy Chair Room .
Oh and this. The first part is so-so, but the second is wow, so dismal. Great London After Midnight is always great .