OCTOBER 17, 2013 10:38AM

Day 16: Favorite Horror Movie Soundtrack

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30 Day Horror Movie Challenge

Oct. 16: Nights in White Satin

 (I'm behind and busy - published w no frills, will come back to edit).
I keep gravitating to those few horror movies with a 70s-riffic soundtrack. There is Rob Zombie's southern fried soundtrack for The Devil's Rejects; and his more straightforward classic rock choices added to the background of Michael Myers' killings in Halloween and Halloween II .
The Halloween II soundtrack shares The Moody Blues 's "Nights in White Satin" with my pick, the Dark Shadows soundtrack.  And both Zombie and Tim Burton have effectively shown that it's as atmospheric and creepy as anything Donovan has done.
Now why the Dark Shadows soundtrack?  It was essentially filtered through Chloe Grace Moretz's character: both a nascent werewolf and a nascent glam rocker.  That scene where she confronts Michelle Pfeiffer and the new governess; she's listening to Iggy , and she declares defiantly that she's going to live in New York someday.  You have no doubt she's going to find her way to CBGBs.  She dances to the aforementioned Donovan at the dinner table, and performs with Alice Cooper at the Collinswood party.
This all reawakened my interest in early 70s glam rock.  And that is one of the reasons I loved this film that everyone else hated.

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Hey, I loved this flick too, and its great soundtrack/music references was one of the reasons why.

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