Very Scary Music: Classic Horror Themes

Roy Shakked | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 2009)
• Original Release Date: June 15, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cobra Entertainment LLC
• ASIN: B00000JJ9R
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,273 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #16 in Music > Miscellaneous > Holiday > Halloween

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Horror muzak for parties., November 7, 2002

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Scary Music: Classic Horror Themes (Audio CD)

If you are looking for a solid collection of classic horror themes recreated as heard in the movies, then you had better look elsewhere. This collection is not for you. Various musicians either play respectable covers of classic themes (i.e. The Exorcist or Halloween) or completely slaughter them with poppy covers. Harry Manfredini's already silly disco-pop theme to Friday the 13th Part 3 is destroyed so badly you would think that Jason Voorhees himself had stomped into the recording studio. Fans of pure, play it like it sounded in the movie recordings will be disappointed.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Blah!, August 10, 2003

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This review is from: Very Scary Music: Classic Horror Themes (Audio CD)

Some of them sound like the original recording.

Others sound like MIDI tracks burned to CD. With such a good lineup of movies (sans X-Files), I was thoroughly disappointed at how "synthy" it sounds.

To get this CD all you have to do is use your favorite search engine and type "midi and horror".

I want my $$ back.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average collection of cover tunes., October 12, 2005

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S. Davis "damioncrowley" (Birmingham, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Scary Music: Classic Horror Themes (Audio CD)

I've had reasonable luck with Laserlight's Halloween CDs, introducing me to such artist as Screaming Lord Sutch, the Undertakers, and a couple of other minor groups popular for Halloween-themed music.
By comparisson, this CD is a relative disappointment, featuring covers of spooky movie and TV themes.
Friday the 13th gets butchered the worst, with Exorcist following close behind, primarily by being about a minute to long, and the Twilight Zone is way too funky.
Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street fare the best, followed by Jaws and X-files. The rest are tributes to mediocrity.
For Wal-Mart's price of under four dollars, it's a decent deal, but I certainly couldn't recommend spending any more than that for it.