It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966, dir. Bill Melendez)
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966, dir. Bill Melendez)
Vince Guaraldi - Great Pumpkin Waltz (It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Simone Signoret & Paul Meurisse in Diabolique (1955, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot) (via)
“I sought only to amuse myself and the little child who sleeps in all our hearts— the child who hides her head under the bed-covers and begs, ‘Daddy, Daddy, frighten me!”
-Clouzot, on directing Diabolique
Dracula (1979, dir. John Badham) (via)
Boris Karloff presides over an art deco Black Mass in The Black Cat (1934, dir. Edgar Ulmer) (via)
Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925, dir. Rupert Julian) (via)
“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be ‘some one,’ like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost…”
-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera (1911)
Carl Davis - Red Death (from Davis’s restoration score for 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera)
Performed by The City Of Prague Philharmonic
The Three Witches in Macbeth (1948, dir. Orson Welles) (via)
Krzysztof Penderecki - Polymorphia for 48 String Instruments (The Exorcist: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Polymorphia was originally composed in 1961 by the avant-garde Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It was also later used, in addition to several other Penderecki compositions, in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, dir. James Whale) (via)
Franz Waxman -Dance Macabre (Bride of Frankenstein: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Halloween (1978, dir. John Carpenter) (via)
John Carpenter - Main Theme (Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
“My dad, when I was 13 or 14 years old, taught me how to play 5/4 time on bongos. So years later I thought I’d go on the piano and just do octaves and go up. And it just came. 5/4 is nuts, you know. Where does it end? What’s going on? You can’t find the start and stop of it; it’s off.”
(via)
Conrad Veidt in The Hands of Orlac (1924, dir. Robert Wiene) (via)
Carrie (1976, dir. Brian De Palma) (via)
