Which is creepier?

Halloween. Carpenter's music for Halloween is much more psychologically suspenseful and, when the low synth tones come in, positively menacing. We're placed inside the mind and soul of a serial killer in that music.

Tubular Bells (from The Exorcist) is more of a "title track". It's weird and bizarre, but more melodic, thoughtful, contemplative, doesn't contain that dark menace, and it really only bookends the film, makes the film feel like a documentary with its sparse placement. It doesn't really underscore the action (those otherworldly evil spirit voices dubbed into Linda Blair do that) the way Carpenter's Halloween does.

After listening to the sound track from Halloween on Halloween night when I went to pick my son up from work ( we live in Illinois) I think I agree with you. It was dark, cold, and windy. Kids were trick or treating and it was very creepy.

Halloween.

Tubular bells is cool and is clearly an influence on Halloween. Funnily enough. It was a long time before I ever got see The Exorcist so my impression of it came from the famous music, which scared me more than the film itself did when I finally saw it.

Halloween on the other hand got me when I was a young teen. The lack of resolution in the main theme is what makes it creepy for me. It's like the music of a sick merry-go-round which is slightly out of control and won't stop. Each time the music seems to be reaching a climactic sort of resolution it just holds on to that irregular theme.

LAurie's theme is also a very sad and atmospheric companion to the main theme. They go together nicely.



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