everyday is halloween

let me not forget about horror movie soundtracks.  a good tune makes the whole spooky ambience extra scary especially in the hands of a gifted film composer.  john harrison is such a composer.  this is the opening track to the third film in George A. Romero's zombie trilogy, Day of the Dead [1985] & his bleakest vision of the world rotting at its undead seams.  a group of soldiers are tasked to safeguard a small collection of scientists at an underground military bunker in Florida.  the scientists are trying to figure out what makes the living dead tick & how to un-dead the dead.  nerves are fraying.  tempers explode.  the pressures of living, & working, isolated & underground, as both groups know that their world ended a while ago.  harrison's music embodies the hopelessness, paranoia & anger in rich sensual synths [so redolent of the 1980s vibe!] of a tropical flavor that could've been used for a quite melancholy episode of Miami Vice.  this is a brilliant score for one of my very favorite zombie flicks that manages to feel both summery & scary but is just right for the Spooky Season.  & if you like your zombie gore with a slice of mango then this score is for you!

boo!