The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

John Carpenter’s classic horror slasher film Halloween stands strong on its own. However, the piano intro in Michael Myers’ theme song is as legendary as the film and character itself. In rare fashion ...

Quite a few gothic rock classics by The Cure could make it to the soundtrack of a horror movie, but I’m partial to the 1989 tune “Lullaby”. That opening melody is so melancholic and ahead of its time, ...

The Yale Film Archive organized a Halloween-night 35-millimeter screening of “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” — a classic 1922 horror movie directed by F.W. Murnau — with live musical accompaniment ...

Holidays and horror cinema go together like … well, Halloween and trick-or-treat candy, or Christmas and stocking stuffers. Since the likes of 1974’s Black Christmas and 1978’s Halloween codified the ...

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