The music is absolutely outstanding in this movie!

How can you miss with a Theremin?

Miklos Rozsa composed some of the best scores for cinema. Check out his work in The Killers and Ben Hur.

As for Spellbound, it had one of the creepiest themes I've ever heard; I watched this movie at night alone, and felt eeriness every time I heard the sound of the theremin.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

I found it repetitive.

Oh yes. I still get the shivers when hearing this music - not just because of the theremin - but the whole buildup and the 'amnesia theme' itself. Also adore the 'love theme'. I have these two themes on an old LP record which I sometimes listen to.

I saw Spellbound as a young child and later only remembered the creepy music and 'black stripes in the snow'. It took me some years to find out who Hitchcock was and that this was one of his films.




"When there is no more room in the Oven,
the Bread will walk the Earth."

It is indeed a beautiful score, and the "Spellbound Suite" (as I think it's called) turns up occasionally on my local classical music station.

"'Nature,' Mr. Allnut, is what we are put here to rrrrrriiiiise above!"

Yeah, the music really stood out for me. Certainly one of the best film scores I've encountered. The film itself was good, but a little patchy. Not one of Hitchcock's best.

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"Spellbound" indeed has a very great score, as does "Ben-Hur." Miklos Rozsa is my favourite film music composer, and his scores for "Knight Without Armour" (1937 - his first for film), "The Four Feathers" (1939), and "Thief of Bagdad" (1940 - and probably the very best score of them all) are all splendidly evocative.

Yes, I agree. The use of the theramin is nearly "spellbinding", itself!