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What is the creepiest music in movies you have heard that sends a shiver down your spine?
For me, it has to be the music from the Spindle scene from Sleeping Beauty. It sure amplifies the fear factor with Maleficent appearing in the fireplace and Aurora following that glowing green orb in that creepy looking trance. |
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Another creepy score for me has to be from the 1960 film The Time Machine known as 'Trapped in the Future'.
It's starts off with a creepy little piano motif followed by some eerie notes on the violins indicating the future the time traveller is in has a dark side and the terrible danger that he unaware of that lurks in the darkness. |
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over a year ago
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"John Carpenter’s score for Halloween never fails to send a shiver in me timbres to 
What he said "
All John Carpenter films have that little bit extra in the soundtracks that adds to the film |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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It's quite a new film but there's a particular piece in 10 Cloverfield Lane called Howard that's full of subtle dread and rising tension (Bear McCreary also did TWD opening credits).
And it's not quite as terrifying as Carpenter levels but John Murphy's In A Heartbeat, well the opening bars with the repetitive two notes and the chords being interwoven is fantastic and haunting. |
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"John Carpenter’s score for Halloween never fails to send a shiver in me timbres to
What he said
All John Carpenter films have that little bit extra in the soundtracks that adds to the film"
The theme of The Thing is good too. The two beats that plays throughout the theme is quite like a human heartbeat but doesn't seem human. |
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I've just remember a creepy score from the 1999 remake of The Mummy known as The Crypt.
https://youtu.be/dnvS7tmVc0o
It makes me picture being inside some dark ancient catacombs never knowing what dangers might be lurking round the corner waiting in the darkness. |
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"David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome' (don't know who the composer was  )
Just had a look on Google and the composer was Howard Shore."
yeah, I had a read after I posted! I just remember it being 'difficult' to listen to (much like the film was to watch!) |
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"David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome' (don't know who the composer was )
Just had a look on Google and the composer was Howard Shore.
yeah, I had a read after I posted! I just remember it being 'difficult' to listen to (much like the film was to watch!)"
I'm sure it was lol |
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Here’s one that I’m stretching it with a bit, (if I may?) both in terms of it being not a traditional horror film (although it is frequently listed as belonging to said genre) and additionally, not a traditionally creepy score.
The score in question is to Peter Weir’s classic, Picnic At Hanging Rock which, within it’s various set tracks, is simultaneously beautiful, majestic, haunting, eerie and indeed yes, somewhat creepy. 
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome' (don't know who the composer was )
Just had a look on Google and the composer was Howard Shore.
yeah, I had a read after I posted! I just remember it being 'difficult' to listen to (much like the film was to watch!)"
About the only thing that film had going for it was Debbie Harry - am sure me and my mates weren't alone in going to see it for that reason and that reason only  |
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"Here’s one that I’m stretching it with a bit, (if I may?) both in terms of it being not a traditional horror film (although it is frequently listed as belonging to said genre) and additionally, not a traditionally creepy score.
The score in question is to Peter Weir’s classic, Picnic At Hanging Rock which, within it’s various set tracks, is simultaneously beautiful, majestic, haunting, eerie and indeed yes, somewhat creepy.
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This |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"1, 2 Freddy's coming for you,
3, 4 better lock your door,
5, 6 get a crucifix
7, 8 better stay up late,
9, 10 never sleep again!
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When I first heard it when watching the film, I must have struggled to sleep for days… ( I was like 8 or something) … yikesss |
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"1, 2 Freddy's coming for you,
3, 4 better lock your door,
5, 6 get a crucifix
7, 8 better stay up late,
9, 10 never sleep again!
When I first heard it when watching the film, I must have struggled to sleep for days… ( I was like 8 or something) … yikesss"
I was young when I watched it and couldn't stop singing the song for days. |
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"1, 2 Freddy's coming for you,
3, 4 better lock your door,
5, 6 get a crucifix
7, 8 better stay up late,
9, 10 never sleep again!
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That song used to freak my old neighbour out...I was once watching the film and she started screaming in the back garden when it got to that bit  (the window was open, I didn't have the TV on really loud). I ran out with a hammer thinking she was being attacked or something  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"1, 2 Freddy's coming for you,
3, 4 better lock your door,
5, 6 get a crucifix
7, 8 better stay up late,
9, 10 never sleep again!
That song used to freak my old neighbour out...I was once watching the film and she started screaming in the back garden when it got to that bit (the window was open, I didn't have the TV on really loud). I ran out with a hammer thinking she was being attacked or something "
Lady Thor to the rescue! |
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"Omen"
The first time I heard The Omen theme tune was on a CD called Themes of Horror 2 but the difference is there are no lyrics as they're replaced with aahs.
https://youtu.be/mEV8SkCorxk
For some reason, this version seems a bit darker than the original. |
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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Omen
The first time I heard The Omen theme tune was on a CD called Themes of Horror 2 but the difference is there are no lyrics as they're replaced with aahs.
https://youtu.be/mEV8SkCorxk
For some reason, this version seems a bit darker than the original."
It scared me |
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"Omen
The first time I heard The Omen theme tune was on a CD called Themes of Horror 2 but the difference is there are no lyrics as they're replaced with aahs.
https://youtu.be/mEV8SkCorxk
For some reason, this version seems a bit darker than the original.
It scared me "
I'm sure it did with that black mass type of singing going on. |
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"Ron Grainers music for the tv series Tales of the Unexpected"
The theme doesn't sound scary to me but I can understand why it does as it leads you into a false sense of security before it shows you something really scary. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Probably something by David Lynch"
Ralf Dorper's soundtrack to Eraserhead. "In heaven, everything is fine...." the lady in the radiator. Eeriest thing ever. |
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"Going out on a limb here but as a young boy the theme for Dr Who in the late 70’s used to freak me out..
Cue lots of hiding behind the sofa.. "
Very true that the Doctor Who theme would creep anyone out especially the part of ooooWEEEEEOOOOOOOO. |
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Maybe not so much 'creepy', but a score that gives me the same chills and suspense is in 'Gravity' (was on last night if anyone saw it?). Really emphasises the tension and isolation, in fact the whole sound is epic, fx too. |
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"The score in Sicario was a good tension builder."
Agree with this.. That helicopter ride to Juarez was very ominous.
My shout out goes to NiN score of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Gone girl. The two most explosive scenes in those, no plot spoilers, has very un-nerving music. |
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