I actually think John Carpenter is as great a musician and composer as he is a film director. A great example is his amazing soundtrack for his 1980 masterpiece, The Fog. Just as the film was a traditional ghost story rooted in the past but taking part in the present, his soundtrack completely conveys this. …
This week's chosen poster is the UK quad for The Terminator. An absolute classic and I'm loving the artist's representation of part man/part robot Arnie. When I found the above quad on the internet I saw that there were so many great posters for this film from different countries that deserve to be seen. Below …
An iconic soundtrack for an iconic movie, Krzysztof Komeda's score for the 1968 classic Rosemary's Baby broke so many rules just like the film itself did. Firstly, the lead track 'Lullaby' had the audacity to take a piece of music traditionally used to soothe a child to fall asleep, completely subvert it and imbue it with …
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I was 14 and the exact right age to watch Taxi Driver for the first time. The perfect movie about alienation being watched by a moody teenager who felt completely alienated. I would regularly venture from my hometown of York to the bustling neighbouring city of Leeds and it was on my next excursion after …
I can still remember the first time I watched The Warriors. It was one of my brother's favourite films and I was captivated from the first frames showing the neon of the Wonder Wheel at Coney Island and the following nocturnal subway scenes. Then we see different gangs from different boroughs travelling to a kind …
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Poster of the week goes to this gorgeous Italian artwork for the Steve McQueen film Nevada Smith from 1966. This is rugged, masculine and just a tad homoerotic.
It was dreadful news when I heard about film maestro composer Ennio Morricone's recent passing. He was one of the greatest film soundtrack composers of all time with his scores lending the sonic landscape for so many cinematic masterpieces. My favourite soundtrack by Morricone is the score he composed for John Carpenter's The Thing in …
Hammer Studios goes full-on late Sixties with this shake-up of how they advertised their films to reflect the radical new era. This was an attempt to get away from their previous image which was in danger of looking and feeling stale and archaic. How did they do this? By using humour! The result is iconic.
A peach of a soundtrack to look at is the Trunk Record's compilation of some of the De Wolfe library music that was used within George A Romero's masterpiece Dawn of the Dead. The fact that Romero used muzak that would be played inside a shopping mall within a film set in a shopping mall …
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