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When the Literary Master of Horror meets Film’s Master of Horror, it’s a recipe for some truly furious cinema. That’s exactly what the result was with John Carpenter’s 1983 adaptation of Stephen King’s best selling novel Christine, another female titled tale like Carrie that dealt with the supernatural. In this case the gal in question was a demonically possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury. Thurston Harris’ good time 1957 rock n’ roll [read...] 
I hate Bollywood, and all this pointless singing and dancing, all this copying other movie ideas, and the complete lack of effort to actually make a real movie and sell it to Indian audiences. I would go as far and say they don’t have a film industry, they have a musical industry. The difference between Bollywood and Broadway is that they sell their musicals as movies, while you’d have to [read...] We had an debate about which landmark tune from a Tarantino movie to include in this Top 10 list, especially it is also to celebrate The Quentin Tarantino Archives’ 10th anniversary. Originally, I was going for Stuck in the Middle With You, and its furious associations. Gerry Rafferty’s recent passing would’ve made this all the more relevant. We did settle on Misirlou then, because it was both a throw-the-gauntlet-down type [read...] Prison escape movies are great adventures, but The Great Escape is among the classiest of all. It has a really cool all-star cast and a whistling tune that puts the River Kwai March to shame. A classic WW2 movie with a title theme that will forever remain stuck in your head. The 60s were certainly a good decade for war movies, ranging from big budget mainstream ones to almost off-beat [read...] 
There are few musical motifs in movie scores that struck such a chord with audiences. To this day, you will find few people who don’t recognize the Jaws theme, even though the number of people who have never actually seen it is steadily rising. Yeah I am an old man and I think the hell with these kids today…. Just kidding. Jaws was the first real summer blockbuster, and [read...] Have you ever seen the Simpsons episode where they paddle through the swamps and then you hear cracking in the bushes and a banjo playing? Do you think that is a random thing? No it isn’t, just like the other gazillion references to the Banjo Duel in Deliverance. John Boorman‘s hixploitation survival movie adventure classic is as re-watchable as Laura Gemser in a bathtub, and the music is what stuck [read...] While Easy Rider (1969) wasn’t the first counterculture film ever made, it was a benchmark work of cinema that had a special resonance with audiences of it’s era. It struck a vital nerve with the 60s generation and the eclectic rock music chosen by Director Dennis Hopper was a very important part of the structure and atmosphere of the film as well. It conveyed as many political and social [read...] 
When that movie came out, it changed the world, and Ennio Morricone’s groundbreaking, innovative score was a major reason for that. Mixing sound effects, whistling and a stratocaster guitar blew everybody’s mind. Sergio Leone continued to fame, Clint Eastwood became a worldwide superstar. The movie that started the Spaghetti Western as we know it, this is the theme that opened the movie. Close your eyes, enjoy. [read...] There have been several important director/composer collaborations throughout cinema history and one of its most well established and unique was Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. For Psycho (1960), coined the “godfather of slasher films” by cineasts, Herrmann created a rapidly paced, macabre masterpiece of bright shrieking strings and brass cues bringing the horror/suspense movie theme to its apex. The film’s iconic score has since been replicated and reinvented many [read...] INTRODUCTION: In this 10 part series for Furious Cinema we’ll be looking at the groundbreaking, iconic scores & soundtracks that impacted pop culture and film. Of course like any list, there is room for dispute and alternative choices, but after researching these musical pieces we’ve concluded they are indeed relevant and important ones – and among our favorites. So, we hope you dig these short but sweet posts. Turn [read...] |
    
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