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'The Definitive Horror Movie Music Collection'

Thu., Dec. 3, 2009 8:00 AM PST , by Jen Yamato
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Horror movie music lovers will find over four-and-a-half hours of the most memorable scores and themes from the last 87 years of horror cinema in this comprehensive gift box from Silva Screen Records. Featuring songs re-recorded beautifully by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the set covers everything from old-school horror (Nosferatu) to Italian horror (Suspiria) to modern classics (Nightmare on Elm Street) to more recent films that lean towards fantasy-horror (Pan’s Labyrinth, Let the Right One In, Twilight).

The four-CD set even includes themes from cult television shows (Dexter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), making for a survey of practically the entire span of horror film and television history. You won’t find works by John Carpenter, Elmer Bernstein, Michael Giacchino, Danny Elfman, Goblin, Jerry Goldsmith, and Bela Bartok compiled together anywhere else, guaranteed.

$33.89 at Barnes and Noble

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