Although it may seem cliche to some to share music from the Friday the 13th films for the Halloween Countdown, I simply can't resist doing so for several reasons. I am going to do my best to deliver a balanced selection of material for the Halloween Countdown, posting items that may be obscure, popular, vintage, or new. The first and most important reason for sharing this is due to the completely undeniable badassness of this score. Harry Manfredini's score for Friday the 13th is one of the creepiest and unnerving within the entire horror film genre. I'm one of those people who doesn't scare easily, even when placed in situations where I probably should be, at least for my own well-being. However, while listening to this last night I couldn't help but feel as if someone might be lurking in one of the bedrooms behind me, waiting to dispatch me in some horrible manner if I dared to walk down the hallway.
Like many children raised by alcholic and junked out parents during the '80s, I had free reign to watch films full of gratuitous nudity, violence and gore. Aside from the Friday films released by New Line Cinema, which didn't have any redeeming qualities in my opinion, I have watched the films from the series many many times over the years. Which brings me to my second reason for sharing this: I know there are many other horror enthusiasts close to my age who grew up watching these films time and time again, and hold these films near and dear to their heart. I posted the Friday the 13th: Special Edition Soundtrack a couple of years ago, and it has almost been downloaded more times than any other album on this blog, which speaks volumes about the ongoing popularity of the series after 30 years. I hope that this score will be equally well received, and I have the scores to the majority of the films in the series, so if anyone is interested I can post some of them also.
I wish that I could remember where I found this so I can give credit to the person responsible for ripping it. I wrote a note for myself that states that the score was isolated and ripped from the 5.1 surround sound of the DVD, most likely from the Friday the 13th DVD box set. The bitrate is a little low at 192kbps, but it sounds absolutely perfect to me. The album art must have been custom created also, as soundtrack is mispelled as "sondtrack" on the front cover.
I'm going to go ahead and end this post since there really isn't much that I can say about either the film or the score that hasn't already been said a thousand times before, not that it has ever stopped me before, but I have a ton of stuff that I want to be able to share before "Halloween Countdown 2010" is over. "Sci-Fi September" made me realize all to well how quickly a month can pass, and I don't want to make the same mistake twice.
Year of Release: 1980
Label: NA / Bootleg Release
Genres: Film Score, Horror
Bitrate: 192kbps
Tracklist:
1. Camp Blood New
2. Prelude
3. We Weren't Doin' Anything
4. Main Title
5. Kill The Cook
6. The Snake
7. Ralph's Warning
8. What's In The Top Bunk
9. Jack's Death
10. The Outhouse
11. The Arrow
12. Resting
13. Bill Behind The Door
14. The Terror Begins
15. Mrs. Voorhees
16. Her Revenge
17. The Attack Continues
18. The Beheading
19. End Title (Sail Away Little Sparrow)
20. Source Music (The Ride To Camp)
21. Introduction To Horror
Like many children raised by alcholic and junked out parents during the '80s, I had free reign to watch films full of gratuitous nudity, violence and gore. Aside from the Friday films released by New Line Cinema, which didn't have any redeeming qualities in my opinion, I have watched the films from the series many many times over the years. Which brings me to my second reason for sharing this: I know there are many other horror enthusiasts close to my age who grew up watching these films time and time again, and hold these films near and dear to their heart. I posted the Friday the 13th: Special Edition Soundtrack a couple of years ago, and it has almost been downloaded more times than any other album on this blog, which speaks volumes about the ongoing popularity of the series after 30 years. I hope that this score will be equally well received, and I have the scores to the majority of the films in the series, so if anyone is interested I can post some of them also.
I wish that I could remember where I found this so I can give credit to the person responsible for ripping it. I wrote a note for myself that states that the score was isolated and ripped from the 5.1 surround sound of the DVD, most likely from the Friday the 13th DVD box set. The bitrate is a little low at 192kbps, but it sounds absolutely perfect to me. The album art must have been custom created also, as soundtrack is mispelled as "sondtrack" on the front cover.
I'm going to go ahead and end this post since there really isn't much that I can say about either the film or the score that hasn't already been said a thousand times before, not that it has ever stopped me before, but I have a ton of stuff that I want to be able to share before "Halloween Countdown 2010" is over. "Sci-Fi September" made me realize all to well how quickly a month can pass, and I don't want to make the same mistake twice.
Year of Release: 1980
Label: NA / Bootleg Release
Genres: Film Score, Horror
Bitrate: 192kbps
Tracklist:
1. Camp Blood New
2. Prelude
3. We Weren't Doin' Anything
4. Main Title
5. Kill The Cook
6. The Snake
7. Ralph's Warning
8. What's In The Top Bunk
9. Jack's Death
10. The Outhouse
11. The Arrow
12. Resting
13. Bill Behind The Door
14. The Terror Begins
15. Mrs. Voorhees
16. Her Revenge
17. The Attack Continues
18. The Beheading
19. End Title (Sail Away Little Sparrow)
20. Source Music (The Ride To Camp)
21. Introduction To Horror
2 comments:
Не интересная музыка и не страшная. Только слух раздражает, но все-равно спасибо) From Russia.
I can only agree 100% in what you are writing about this movie (and the rest of them). Funny how crap movies like these are the ones dearest to you.
I grew up watching these too ofc, and being a swede I had little restrictions from my mum ;-D There are worse things in the world
Like the movie slaughter that went on in the 80´s >_< I remember the (swedish) rental version of Evil Dead was censored some 15 minutes... But that's another topic :P Thanks again man
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