I've found it to be quite enjoyable to listen to the score to something scary--say, the soundtrack to Alien. This occurred to me after watching 'Alcest--What's in my bag?', the often brilliant clips on youtube from Ameoba Records in LA. The guy from Alcest mentioned that very score by J. Goldsmith. I happened to watch the movie in theater the other day and I thought 'why not just listen to this by itself?'
So there is obviously something quite wrong with me that I enjoy this so much but I do. I looked at lists to see what other people like. I made a playlist based on those suggestions. Then I realized that video games often have excellent scores--Mikko Tarmia's work with Frictional Games as a prime example. It's impossible to overstate how effective, how inseperable the score is in creating the 'horror' atmosphere. For me gore and whatnot is boring and uninteresting, but something eerie and impossible is excellent.
My hope in sharing this is to find things to add to this playlist and also to share this discovery with others of my ilk.
Here's the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...FJL_WJIUqgnS32
Here are the scores:
Movies / TV -
Halloween
Return of the Living Dead
Trick or Treat
The Wicker Man
Dawn of the Dead
Tubular Bells (Exorcist)
Starry Eyes
Hellraiser
The Thing
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Maniac
XTRO
Lucio Fulci's Zombi
Mandy
The Keep
Tenebre
...E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore! L'aldila
The Omen
Halloween 3
The Changeling
Psycho
Altered States
Blade Runner 2049
Twin Peaks
The Dunwich Horror
It Follows
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Demons
Alien
Phantasm
Poltergeist
Under the Skin
The Descent
The Fog
Cannibal Holocaust
Suspiria
Ringu & The Ring
Video Games -
Amnesia
SOMA
Penumbra
Alien: Isolation
Silent Hill 2
Outlast
System Shock 2
Diablo 2
Half-Life 2
Independent musical productions -
Cthulhu - Cryo Chamber
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World - The Caretaker
Ambient Winter - Cryo Chamber
Cold Journeys in Uninhabitable Lands - Northumbria
Dark Winter Music & Gothic Music - The Fiechters
Hope you enjoy.