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Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2007 Film)

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A must have for any Rob Zombie or Halloween fan. Great classic rock music with out takes from the movies dialog.

I saw the movie the day it came out in theatres and I LOVED it!!! I got this soundrack recently and LOOOOOVED it. I love it from start to finish. Excellent songs, 2 tracks of score which I love and clips from the movie which I think is so cool. This soundtrack is one of my top 5 fav soundtracks. Great soundtrack to great film.

This is an awesome soundtrack. It is fun and enjoyable to listen to. The best songs on this soundtrack are all of them

Like some others I was not interested in a remake of the great HALLOWEEN. It came on cable one night and I thought, oh I might as well. I LOVED this movie. Giving MM a back story (and a good one at that) was fantastic. Except for some weak acting, the movie was a great way to return the scares to MM and Halloween. I'm not sure what I expected the music to be but was thrilled to hear oldies along with some new things. Songs that fit the scene or atmosphere and R.Zombie was on the mark in keeping the main title music the same except with some minor tweeking. The off key piano just makes the music even creepier.
I collect soundtracks and this is one I am proud to add to my collection.

Rob Zombie unleashed an extreme vision of terror and a legend that is Michael Myers and he just did that with the soundtrack with amazing artist icluding KISS, Peter Frampton, Blue Oyster Cult, Nazareth and heaps more.
One great song after another including dialogues from the movie and of course, two amazing John Carpenter themes that was composed by the extrodinary Tyler Bates 'The Halloween Theme' and 'The Shape Stalks Laurie.
I just wish they could've added more Tyler Bates music in there. The movie rocks, the soundtrack rocks, the music rock, i highly recommend it to those who loved Rob Zombie's version of Halloween including the original.
5 stars.

I think this is a really good soundtrack! It has a new version of John Carpenter's original Halloween. It has Don't Fear the Reaper, which was played in the original. It has Tom Sawyer, the music they play when they introduce Big Joe Grizzley. It has God of Thunder, the music played at the beginning showing it's Haddonfield, Illinois: October 31. It has Love Hurts, they play this when Michael is sitting alone on Halloween and His mom is stripping at the Rabbit in Red Lounge! I listed my favorites from ROB ZOMBIE'S HALLOWEEN!!!

I have always been a fan of slasher movies. Halloween (Zombie style) is an awesome movie and so is the soundtrack. The songs are great and I love the way they re-made the Halloween theme song.

I would have given this soundtrack 5 stars, but some of the music wasn't familiar enough to me. Other than that, I did love one of the songs I hadn't heard before... "Tom Sawyer" by Rush is the bomb! And who hasn't heard the hit "Love Hurts" by Nazareth? These two songs alone give this soundtrack the depth it needed to make this a true "Halloween" collectible. I should also mention, "Only Women Bleed" by Alice Cooper because of it's relevance to the movie. I am a hard-core Halloween fan, and all the songs above, along with the staples of the theme and "The Shape Stalks Laurie" makes this soundtrack a must buy for true followers like myself, as well as anyone who loves pure rock.

Say what you will about the movie, but the soundtrack to Rob Zombie's re-imagining of John Carpenter's classic Halloween is a more than solid soundtrack that captures the era of the film's setting. Found here are classic tracks from Rush, Alice Cooper, Kiss, and Blue Oyster Cult among others, with snippets of dialogue from the film peppered in between, similar to the soundtracks to Zombie's previous films, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. Whether or not hearing these songs is pleasurable to you (if you're not a fan of 70's area rock or were expecting a full on metal soundtrack because this is an R-rated horror movie, you've come to the wrong place) will be the ultimate factor in picking the Halloween soundtrack up, but there are some big notables here. Composer Tyler Bates' underrated take on Carpenter's classic Halloween theme is beyond creepy, as is the surprisingly great cover of "Mr. Sandman" by Nan Vernon. Also on board is "Halloween II" by legendary ghoul-punks The Misfits, which nicely rounds the soundtrack out. All in all, the soundtrack to Rob Zombie's highly criticized re-imagining of Halloween is a more than solid collection of songs from the era and dialogue from the film that help set the tone, and is worth picking up if you're a fan of all of the above.

Typical Rob Zombie movie soundtrack - Brief snippets of movie dialogue (including the taco deluxe supreme) interwoven between classic rock/pop songs (from mostly the 70's) used in the movie. If your a classic rock fan, you probably have most if not all the songs already in your collection. However two new songs are included in the soundtrack that may make the purchase worthwhile: the new Halloween 2007 theme and "The Shape Stalks Laurie" both by Tyler Bates with the latter being more dark atmospheric tones more then anything else.

The rest of the soundtrack is great classic rock including an ode to the original Halloween with BOC's "Don't Fear the Reaper" and another to Halloween II with a version of "Mr. Sandman".

The opening movie sequence with "God of Thunder" is brilliant and quickly set the mood for this Halloween. But just as easily other song selections seemed to miss their mark and can even ruin a scene. The songs selected are great in their own but some just didn't fit in the movie. I felt trapped in the 70's throughout the movie because of the song selections. I digress but the start of the movie has young Michael wearing a KISS Destroyer T-shirt with Peter Frampton blasting at the kitchen table so you know your circa 76/77. Fifteen years kids are still rocking out to BOC and Alice - right! Then again Rob doesn't have a lot to work with songs from the 90's.