Richard Rodney Bennett - Overture and Kidnapping (Murder on the Orient Express: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 

“I felt very strongly that the opening of the film, the main titles, should give one the sense of excitement and anticipation that one felt at the theatre, as a child, before the curtain went up. I remember saying to [Orient Express director] Sidney Lumet, ‘No one’s frightened by Agatha Christie, in 1974. We have to give them the feeling that they’re about to see a terrific entertainment.’

There was a certain amount of moaning from train aficionados over the fact that the sounds of the train were minimal because of all this music, and a loud cry from Bernard Herrmann [regarding including a waltz in the film]—‘Bennett got it all wrong! This is the TRAIN OF DEATH!’”

-Bennett, on his score for Murder on the Orient Express

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.”

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Pino Donaggio - For The Last Time We’ll Pray (Carrie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Claudio Gizzi - Main Titles (Blood For Dracula: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi, & Vince Tempera - Seven Notes: Pt. 1 (Seven Notes in Black: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The score was performed on a carillon (tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled by a keyboard), accompanied by strings, low synth, and piano tones.

Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem For Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra (2001: A Space Odyssey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)