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My absolute favorite would have to be Harry Sukman's score for Salem's Lot, especially the bombastic, driving main title (as the credits appear over the Marsten House in the background) and the positively creepy music, with strings being plucked in a heartbeat and flutes whistling like a bird call of imminent death, that accompanies the vampire boy scratching everlastingly at his older brother's window. I'm still hoping that one of the record labels manages to get into the Warner vault and somehow releases this sucker for Halloween.
Of the theatrical films, Michael Kamen's The Dead Zone is haunting from start to finish and features one of his finest scores. Charles Bernstein's Cujo is also a terrific soundtrack for the film.
And I have to admit, watching the Twilight Time Blu-Ray of Christine, I caught myself both nodding my head to the beat and tapping my hand on the back of the couch as I listened to John Carpenter's music as Moochie gets chased by the Plymouth Fury. There was a time when Carpenter really did that type of minimalist synthesizer horror score better than anyone else.
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Most Wanted: Moonraker - complete; Inside Moves (John Barry), Volunteers; The Hand; Brainstorm - complete (James Horner); MacArthur; Supergirl -expanded (Jerry Goldsmith).
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