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Team Boxwish quizzed: What movie music spooks you out?

Posted by Team Boxwish 5 months ago

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Less than two weeks to go until Halloween and we’re busy practicing our pumpkin carvings and zombie walks. But to truly get in the mood for all things spooky, nothing gets the hairs on the back of our necks standing to attention like some scary movie music. There have been some spine-tingling classics over the years, from Psycho’s screeching violins by Bernard Hermann to the theme from 1978’s Halloween (run, Laurie, run!), proving the (terrifying) power of a film’s score as they ratchet up the onscreen tension to almost unbearable levels. But which ones have us at Team Boxwish reaching for the mute button? This week, we reveal what rates on our scary-o-meter by asking, “What movie music spooks you out?”


Tim: “Definitely the Annie Lennox track “Love Song for a Vampire” from the 1992 version of Dracula. It’s actually a really nice song, but for some reason it spooks me out!”

Take up Tim’s recommendation and get the Bram Stoker’s Dracula Soundtrack.


Steve: “There’s not any music that really scares me. There are things that scare me I guess but music isn’t one of them.”


Nic: “I don’t watch too many horror films so I am not really familiar with any movie music that spooks me out, but I have always been spooked out by The X-Files music. It reminds me of when I used to watch the TV series when I was younger.”

Take up Nic’s recommendation and get The X-Files Soundtrack.


Katie: "It really doesn’t take much to spook me at all. Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells” from The Exorcist and the creepy choral music in The Omen are guaranteed to give me the heebie-jeebies, while the ultimate is Wojciech Kilar’s work on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I absolutely love it, it’s so beautiful and haunting and yet I can’t listen to it alone!"

Take up Katie’s recommendations and get The Exorcist Soundtrack, The Omen Soundtrack and Bram Stoker’s Dracula Soundtrack.


Ella: "I like it when silence is used in horror films because you’re always waiting for something to happen. I also love contrapuntal sound in movies because it makes the visual even more shocking, like the upbeat pop music in American Psycho or “Stuck in the Middle with You” in the ear scene in Reservoir Dogs."

Take up Ella’s recommendations and get the American Psycho Soundtrack and the Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack.


Lucy: “I get scared very easily, so whenever there is any music in a movie that is spooking me out, I turn the volume down – how sad is that? But it does make you realise the power that the music brings to a film. I can specifically remember making friends with the mute button whilst watching What Lies Beneath.”

Take up Lucy’s recommendation and get the What Lies Beneath Soundtrack.

And what about you, Boxwishers? What music gets you leaping out of your seat? Leave a comment and let us know.

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