top horror film themes or scores

[general gruesome]

An excellent top 84 list, some mondo films included with the horror list

Top 84 Horror Movie Themes (In my opinion)

[jimm]

Halloween stands above the rest in my recollection!

[Monsterscud]

Always love the Halloween score.Some of my others I really like are:

Romero's 'Martin'
The Wicker Man
Fearless Vampire killers
The Monster Club
Phantasm
The company of wolves
Dawn of the dead
Bride of Frankenstein...

[general gruesome]

A lot of Lucio Fulcis scores are awesome too

[jimm]

Some of the best scores ever are Morricones westerns, will have to see what horrors he did

[horror1o1]

i feel this list missed a lot of scores that were better The frighters ,darkman, nightmare on elm st, beetlejuice, The Shinning, and a lot of carpenter's stuff.

[general gruesome]

Some of the best scores ever are Morricones westerns, will have to see what horrors he did

for sure, Morricones western scores are awesome

[Paladin]

There are to many great scores for me to pick just one. Hans Zimmer, Graeme Revell, James Newton Howard & Bernard Hermann are a few composers well worth listening to.

[Street Worm]

My top 5 (I think)

The Exorcist
Phantasm
Hellraiser
Puppet Master (I like a lot of Richard Band's stuff)
Candyman

[horror1o1]

this is a big one for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HlGxcekfsho#!

[RedKing]

My favorite horror related composers are Hans J Salter from the Universal films, James Bernard of Hammer fame, John Carpenter(especially the score for Halloween), Les Baxter from  the early AIP films, Goblin, Fabio Frizzi who scored most of Lucio Fulci's films and more sci-fi related are Jerry Goldsmith's Star Trek score, Shunsuke Kikuchi who scored mayn of the original Gamera films and countless live action and anime series,Barry Gray who scored most of Gerry Anderson's TV series and my favorite composer of all times-Akiria Ifukube, legendary compser for Toho's Godzilla series and many of their other monster and sci-fi films as well as many samurai films.

[Paul L]

There's a lot of them, but John Williams score for Dracula ('79) sticks out.

[Wolfman]

Halloween, Psycho & The Exorcist stand out from all the rest IMO.

JP