Poltergeist: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

poltergeist: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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"They're heeeeere." This soundtrack's almost as spooky as Steven Spielberg's classic tale of the supernatural. Composer Jerry Goldsmith keeps listeners on edge by constructing sweeping soundscapes with drastically contrasting moods, rapidly slipping from childlike delicacy to overpowering grandeur in just a few bars of music. Consider the tones of the main title or the rapid shifts from understated menace to overwhelming terror in "Rebirth." From shivering strings (used to especially good effect on "Twisted Abduction") to gentle piano (the closing lullabylike "Rebirth"), Goldsmith is a master of effect, his compositional style perfectly suited to the film. --Genevieve Williams

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Poltergeist: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

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They're Heeeere! Goldsmith Is Heeere!!
Goldsmith's Great Score To A 1980s Horror Masterpiece
A triumph of style and power.
A Necessity for the Goldsmith fan!
A Complete Goldsmith Classic!

Poltergeist: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Jerry Goldsmith
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Tracks:

The Star Spangled Banner
The Calling/The Neighborhood (Main Title)
The Tree (Outtake)
The Clown/They're Here/Broken Glass/The Hole/...
Twisted Abduction
Contacting The Other Side
The Light
Night Visitor/No Complaints
It Knows What Scares You
Rebirth
Night Of The Beast
Escape From Suburbia
Carol Anne's Theme (End Title)

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"They're heeeeere." This soundtrack's almost as spooky as Steven Spielberg's classic tale of the supernatural. Composer Jerry Goldsmith keeps listeners on edge by constructing sweeping soundscapes with drastically contrasting moods, rapidly slipping from childlike delicacy to overpowering grandeur in just a few bars of music. Consider the tones of the main title or the rapid shifts from understated menace to overwhelming terror in "Rebirth." From shivering strings (used to especially good effect on "Twisted Abduction") to gentle piano (the closing lullabylike "Rebirth"), Goldsmith is a master of effect, his compositional style perfectly suited to the film. --Genevieve Williams

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They're Heeeere! Goldsmith Is Heeere!!.......2006-03-08

Jerry Goldsmith has done it again: He freaks me out every time I hear his great composition for "Poltergeist". Let's face it: he gave me the chills with his scores for the Omen trilogy and "Alien". He knew how to make us wonder what mysterious things were lurking in the dark with the music he wrote for horror films.
In spite of the lovely theme for Carol Anne, Goldsmith manipulated our fears with suspenseful moments , especially 'The Tree', 'Night Visitor/No Complaints', and 'It Knows What Scares You'. Tension is also felt with tracks like 'Twisted Abduction' and 'Rebirth', which is one of the finest thrilling moments in this work. Of course, let's not forget the action as the Freeling family tries to escape their haunted house, as Goldsmith makes us join the runaway in the tracks 'Night Of The Beast' and 'Escape From Suburbia'. In general, Goldsmith knew how to scare our wits with his unique understanding of the horror medium.
It's a good thing that Rhino released this expanded edition of one of Jerry Goldsmith's most eloquent, yet creepiest, works. This album should not be looked over.

Goldsmith's Great Score To A 1980s Horror Masterpiece.......2005-04-09

The late Jerry Goldsmith ranks right up there with John Williams and Elmer Bernstein as one of the greatest composers of film music in history. Among his dozens upon dozens of credits are scores to horror films like 1972's THE OTHER, and his 1976 Oscar-winning score for THE OMEN. The one he composed for the 1982 Steven Spielberg/Tobe Hooper terror classic POLTERGEIST certainly ranks up there as a jewel in his crown.

Beginning with Goldsmith's adaptation of the National Anthem (used in the opening credits, and as the TV in the Frelengs' house is about to receive nothing but snow and a few "TV people"), the score for POLTERGEIST is designed, like the film itself, to keep one just a little off balance and on edge. "Carol Ann's Theme" is one of the more poignant single cues of music in film history, with its children's choir, an astounding fear considering that this is, after all, a horror film. In other places in the score, Goldsmith integrates the ominous Gregorian chant "Dies Irae", a centerpiece of Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" and that also found its way loosely into the music for A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, and THE RING. Other times, it has echoes of Debussy and Stravinsky. But the score is quite original in its own spectacularly suspenseful and terrifying way.

POLTERGEIST got Goldsmith another Oscar nomination in 1982; and while he lost to Williams' score for E.T., it nevertheless was a huge success for him as a composer, and a reputation that had been built since the 1950s would continue until his passing in 2004. This soundtrack is strongly recommended, especially because it comes from what is, along with THE SHINING, one of the few horror movies released during the 1980s that can legitimately be considered a masterpiece.

A triumph of style and power........2004-01-02

Jerry Goldsmith's score for Poltergeist is, arguably, one of THE greatest horror film scores of all time - right up there with Herrmann's score for Psycho and Williams for Jaws. Both haunting and soothing, etheral and chaotic, a listener does not know what will come out of the speakers next. This expanded edition, which contains more music than the first release did, is the very definition of ESSENTIAL. I give it my highest recommendation.

A Necessity for the Goldsmith fan!.......2002-12-02

Goldsmith, like the magnificent Bernard Herrmann, has a vast body of diverse work constructed for the respective films of which he was commissioned to supply the music. From that huge collection, however, there are those that stand head and shoulders above the rest. "The Sand Pebbles", "Planet of the Apes", "Patton", "The Omen," "Star Trek: the Motion Picture" and "Poltergeist" most assuredly are the finest created by the master musician.

The latter is a musical journey covering a variety of emotions: it is heavenly yet demonic, beautiful yet horrendous, calm yet savage, and comforting yet, at the same time, most terrifying. This expanded disc, with cues heard for the first time, is well worth its price and Rhino, as always, provides the buyer with excellent liner notes and movie stills.

It is one of those soundtracks that must be listened to WITH the lights on.

A Complete Goldsmith Classic!.......2002-03-26

I was so excited to finally hear this album. Goldsmith has written some of the best film music in history, and I thank God that he's still on the verge of writing more music. This is one of the most beautiful and intense scores that I've ever heard, and also one of his scores where he doesn't use many electric instruments. The tempos are running and exciting as usual, and the way he usually writes his music. Carol Anne's theme is touching and wonderfully performed. When you listen to this score when you're by yourself, you don't feel afraid at all, you just feel as if you have that same amount of hopefulness to try and retrieve the girl. The soundtrack may have occasional jumps in it, but it is very safe to listen to by yourself, not like The Omen, which I would recommend, well, listening with just the lights on (I don't know about being by yourself). This definiately belongs in your Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack collection.

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