Carnival Of Souls (1962 Film) [Soundtrack]

Gene Moore | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 12, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Birdman
• ASIN: B00000DCTV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #359,456 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Introduction

2. Departure

3. I Don't Know About That Girl

4. Interlude #1

5. Travel Music

6. First Visitation

7. Second Visitation

8. You Can't Live In Isolation

9. Stirring The Soul

10. First Trip To The Carnival

11. Hot Bath

12. Church Organ #1

13. Third Visitation

14. Storm

15. Church Is Just A Place Of Business

16. Haunted

17. Let's Have No More Nights

18. Interlude #2

19. Dark Entry

20. As If I Didn't Exist

See all 37 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Gene Moore's soundtrack to this 1962 cult classic begins like a picnic at a monster-truck rally; an engine revs into the red, and a scream is cut off by a limb-rending crash. But this is only the prelude to a festival in purgatory as a church organist is plagued by sinister visions and a stalker in corpse paint. Moore's organ score runs the gamut of carefree filler to a hygiene film ("Travel Music") to gripping, spooky colors and tones. Luckily, this second category makes up most of the disc, combining an unstable innocence--akin to Fats Waller's pipe-organ compositions in Eraserhead--with an unholy fun-house menace. This release also contains dialogue samples and score material that didn't make the final print, including the lo-fi twist of "Carnival Rock." Truly odd. --Michael Woodring

Product Description

This album is an amazing journey through a myriad of dark musical styles, truly leaving the listener breathless. This CD is the epitome of Gothic fetish, all wrapped up in a quality Gothic erotic passage just dripping with atmosphere generated by this great assembly of bands. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Rip-off, March 20, 2005

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Zoltan Carnovasch (Bavaria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carnival Of Souls (1962 Film) (Audio CD)

This is not a true soundtrack album, but just some music taken directly from the movie put on CD. The producers tried to hide the fact by often fading the tracks out whenever a voice or sound effect is heard. The bonus tracks seem to be played on a completely different organ and I wonder why the producers could locate unused material but not the actual recordings made for the movie. Maybe this material isn't any "unused material" at all, but completely different music. It's a shame Moore's interesting score is so poorly presented here.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Carnival of Souls rip-off CD, August 19, 2000

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William Kersten "William" (Reno, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carnival Of Souls (1962 Film) (Audio CD)

This CD, supposedly Gene Moore's score from the classic film soundtrack, is actually nothing more than a cheaply produced recording of the mixed film soundtrack, with dialogue, footsteps, noises, etc. along with the music. If you think - as I did - that you'll be able to hear the admirable organ score better on this CD than you can with your own videotape - think again. This is a completely worthless CD, as you can easily make a cassette or CDR recording off your VCR that will be EXACTLY the same, except for some irrelevant organ hymn music that was never in the film in the first place.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Eerie and hanuting, just like the film, May 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Carnival Of Souls (1962 Film) (Audio CD)

If you are a fan of the movie, you will like this eerie and sometimes scary soundtrack. Filled with organ music and voice clips from the movie, it conjures up images from the film. A great buy if you like this type of stuff.