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Halloween is a soundtrack album composed and performed by John Carpenter, featuring the score to the 1978 film Halloween. It was released in Japan in 1979 through Columbia Records and in the USA in 1983 through Varèse Sarabande. An expanded 20th Anniversary Edition was released in 1998 through Varèse Sarabande. In 2018, an LP was released by Mondo Records featuring mono tracks taken from the original 35mm stem of the film and for the first time features the music as originally heard in theaters and on the earliest VHS releases of the film.
Track listing[]
All music is composed by John Carpenter.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Halloween Theme - Main Title" | 2:54 |
| 2. | "Laurie's Theme" | 2:05 |
| 3. | "Shape Escapes" | 1:42 |
| 4. | "Myers' House" | 5:35 |
| 5. | "Michael Kills Judith" | 3:11 |
| 6. | "Loomis and Shape's Car" | 3:32 |
| 7. | "The Haunted House" | 3:33 |
| 8. | "The Shape Lurks" | 1:35 |
| 9. | "Laurie Knows" | 3:01 |
| 10. | "Better Check the Kids" | 3:27 |
| 11. | "The Shape Stalks" | 3:08 |
| Total length: | 33:43 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Halloween Theme" | 2:21 |
| 2. | "Halloween 1963" | 3:11 |
| 3. | "The Evil Is Gone!" | 4:08 |
| 4. | "Halloween 1978" | 2:50 |
| 5. | "The Boogeyman Is Coming" | 0:40 |
| 6. | "The Shape" | 1:43 |
| 7. | "The Hedge" | 1:35 |
| 8. | "He Came Home" | 2:40 |
| 9. | "Trick or Treat" | 0:39 |
| 10. | "The Haunted House" | 1:43 |
| 11. | "The Devil's Eyes" | 1:39 |
| 12. | "The Boogeyman Is Outside" | 1:27 |
| 13. | "Damn You for Letting Him Go!" | 1:34 |
| 14. | "Empty Street" | 0:33 |
| 15. | "See Anything You Like?" | 2:22 |
| 16. | "Lock the Door" | 2:53 |
| 17. | "He's Here?" | 0:55 |
| 18. | "Light's Out" | 2:49 |
| 19. | "Cut It Out" | 1:19 |
| 20. | "Tombstone" | 1:19 |
| 21. | "The Shape Stalks Laurie" | 1:35 |
| 22. | "Turn Around" | 0:33 |
| 23. | "Unlock the Door" | 2:53 |
| 24. | "The Hanger" | 3:04 |
| 25. | "Call the Police" | 0:28 |
| 26. | "Last Assault" | 1:34 |
| 27. | "Was It the Boogeyman?" | 0:32 |
| 28. | "End Credits/Halloween Theme (Reprise)" | 3:36 |
| Total length: | 51:51 | |
Personnel[]
- John Carpenter – composition, performance
- Dan Wyman – synthesizer programming
- Peter Bergren – recording engineer
References[]
- ↑ Weber, Barry. "John Carpenter: Halloween [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]". AllMusic. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
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| John Carpenter | ||
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| Filmography | Directed | Captain Voyeur (1969, short) • Dark Star (1974) • Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) • Halloween (1978) • Someone's Watching Me! (1978) • Elvis (1979) • The Fog (1980) • Escape from New York (1981) • The Thing (1982) • Christine (1983) • Starman (1984) • Big Trouble in Little China (1986) • Prince of Darkness (1987) • They Live (1988) • Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) • Body Bags (1993) • In the Mouth of Madness (1994) • Village of the Damned (1995) • Escape from L.A. (1996) • Vampires (1998) • Ghosts of Mars (2001) • "Cigarette Burns" (TV, 2005) • "Pro-Life" (TV, 2006) • The Ward (2010) |
| Written | The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970, short) • Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) • Halloween II (1981) • Black Moon Rising (1986) | |
| Produced only | Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) | |
| Discography | Studio albums | Lost Themes (2015) • Lost Themes II (2016) • Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998 (2017) |
| Remix albums | Lost Themes Remixed (2015) | |
| EPs | Classic Themes Redux EP (2016) | |
| Scores and soundtracks |
Halloween (1979) • Dark Star (1980) • Escape from New York (1981) • Halloween II (1981) • Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) • The Fog (1984) • Big Trouble in Little China (1986) • Prince of Darkness (1987) • They Live (1988) • Christine (1989) • Body Bags (1993) • In the Mouth of Madness (1995) • Village of the Damned (1995) • Escape from L.A. (1996) • Vampires (1998) • Ghosts of Mars (2001) • Assault on Precinct 13 (2003) | |
| Related | Unrealized projects | |