Burt Bacharach, who died in 2023 at the age of 94, was one of the most prolific songwriters in Hollywood history. Bacharach's expansive list of songs was often featured in films, earning the composer ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

John Carpenter’s classic horror slasher film Halloween stands strong on its own. However, the piano intro in Michael Myers’ theme song is as legendary as the film and character itself. In rare fashion ...

Following up his big screen directorial debut via "A Fistful of Fingers," Edgar Wright launched his now-beloved Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy in 2004. "Shaun of the Dead" kicked the string of films ...

Quite a few gothic rock classics by The Cure could make it to the soundtrack of a horror movie, but I’m partial to the 1989 tune “Lullaby”. That opening melody is so melancholic and ahead of its time, ...