Utterly feral and ferocious Hooper and Bell’s clamorous soundtrack is musique concrète with scabies. One of the most vivid examples of a soundtrack blurring the lines between ‘music’ and sound design. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell The electronic drones that accompany the transformation scenes are a perfect example of the transformative effect of avant-garde experimentation when combined with fantastical imagery.

The idea is genius and the execution is thoroughly in tune with the visuals. The anachronistic device of using electronics to soundtrack a period film is put to devastating effect here. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne by Bernard Parmegiani

Gloriously morose and gothic, the Daughters of Darkness soundtrack is a work of mysterious Euro decadence unlike any other mysterious Euro decadent soundtrack. He’s my favourite French soundtrack composer along with Georges Delerue. The only other Morricone soundtrack I know of that adopts a vaguely similar sound is for the horror film, ‘Who Saw Her Die?’ĭaughters of Darkness by François de Roubaixįrançois de Roubaix soundtracks are usually wondrous affairs, whether it’s for educational science films, art house or genre fare. It’s disorientating, melancholic and bracingly intense. I’ve never seen the film and don’t even know if it’s horror or not, but regardless, Morricone envelops the listener in a psychedelic swarm of choral overload. His most mind-boggling soundtrack and most obscure too.

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