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Rolling Stone John Carpenter’s ‘Lost Themes III’ Scares Up New Thrills
The self-proclaimed Horror Master defends his title with 10 new songs in search of corpses to haunt
By Sophie Gransard
Assault on Precinct 13 and
Halloween, he wrote and recorded the scores himself almost as an afterthought because he
had to: there was no budget for a composer. Here he had these hair-raising, suspenseful stories with murderers wending through darkness, but it all happened in silence. So the budding filmmaker whose favorite music was the Stones and the Beatles, though he loved the scores of Bernard Herrmann and Dimitri Tiomkin drew upon the basics of composition he’d learned from his dad, a music department staffer at Western Kentucky U, and rushed out the jittery, slow-building synthesizer equivalent of a police station under attack and the iconic, off-kilter stabbing pulse of Michael Myers’ chef’s knife.