The Hand That Rocks The Cradle: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Graeme Revell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 1996)
• Original Release Date: January 10, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Hollywood Records
• ASIN: B000000OBX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,725 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title (The Home)

2. Poor Wand'ring One - The D'Oyly Carte Opera

3. The Miscarriage

4. Peyton & Baby Joey

5. Solomon

6. Oh Dry The Glist'ning Tear - The D'Oyly Carte Opera

7. Marlene's Discovery

8. The Greenhouse Affect

9. Claire Investigates

10. You're Not My Mommy

11. Solomon's Baby

12. End Credit Medley

13. One Family Again

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good score, June 15, 2002

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Sren Thomsen (Århus Denmark) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Graeme Revell's score for "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" is like the film it accompanies: By-the-book, but well done. There's nothing we haven't heard before here; your typical suspense score with emphazis on strings and woodwinds. In some parts it reminds me of Shore's "The Silence of the Lambs", but nowhere near as good. Still, this is a very atmospheric score with some good, exciting cues, and some very uplifting and emotional moments. Revell makes good use of the theme from the aria "Poor Wand'ring One" (which is on the album) from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance". This more or less forms the main theme of the album, and is used imaginatively to create both suspense and serenity.
Overall, a good score - but in the long run perhaps not something you should spend your money on unless you are a die-hard Revell fan, or, like me, liked the film enough to want a piece of it on CD.