Favorite Horror/Thriiler Movie Music

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

I love Henry Mancini’s, "Theme from ‘Lifeforce,’"but it doesn’t really fit the movie.

[Baker]

@Ukulele_Ike

Boris plays it in “The Black Cat” (1934).
Peter Lorre plays it in “Mad Love” (1935).
Erich von Stroheim plays it in “Sunset Boulevard” (1950, and I would argue that this is a very fine horror movie!)

Where else does it turn up, off the top of anyone else’s head?

Man, I wish I could afford to keep a pipe organ in MY house.

Not a horror movie, but in the original Rollerball, with James Caan, the movie opens with a stadium gradually being prepared for a game. The music over it all is Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor.

[Stephe96]

Gotta go with “Vertigo” and “Jaws”

[NetTrekker]

Hitchcock - Psycho murder scene

[purplehearingaid]

Psycho

Cape Fear with Gregory Peck

The Hunter with Robert Mitchum
Wait till Dark

Frankenstein

[CalMeacham]

@Ukulele_Ike

Boris plays it in “The Black Cat” (1934).
Peter Lorre plays it in “Mad Love” (1935).
Erich von Stroheim plays it in “Sunset Boulevard” (1950, and I would argue that this is a very fine horror movie!)

Where else does it turn up, off the top of anyone else’s head?

Man, I wish I could afford to keep a pipe organ in MY house.

James Mason as Captain Nemo plays it on the organ aboard the Nautilus in Disney’s 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Not to be outdone, Herbert Lom plays it on the organ aboard the Nautilus in Ray Harryhausen’s Mysterious Island, which obviously tried to imitate the style of the Disney film.