[Thor Joachim Haga]

As I allude to in this thread, I’ve always had an issue with a lot of the dissonant music that is used in horror, especially tropes like tenuto strings (“sneaking-around music”) or stingers. Needs to be darkly romantic somehow. Or lots of synths.

Still, picking just five is incredibly difficult. Plus, you always run into those genre problems — where does line go between thrillers and horror? Sci fi and horror? Etc.

But some random favs (more than five, sorry):

HELLRAISER (Young)
FULL CIRCLE (Towns)
SLEEPY HOLLOW (Elfman)
IN DREAMS (Goldenthal)
CAT PEOPLE (Moroder)
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Söderqvist)
VAMP (Jonathan Elias)
MIMIC (Beltrami)
MANIAC (Rob)
THE GUEST (Moore)
CARRIE (Donaggio)
FIRESTARTER (Tangerine Dream)
THE UNINVITED (V. Young)
THE NINTH GATE (Kilar)