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Beautiful jazzy ending music by John Cavacas

posted 15 years ago by jeffyoung1
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I'm truly fond of the ending music, a jazzy, Euro score with hints of traditional Slavic string music blended within. It made sense to blend a touch of Slavic Russian traditional string instruments because HORROR EXPRESS took place in 1906-07 Russia.

BUT, shame on the technician who cut the ending musical score short. It's so obvious. This occurs on the VHS and the DVD copies. But if you access YouTube.com and type in, HORROR EXPRESS - John Cavacas, you can hear the entire musical score by the talented composer, John Cavacas. It's even better listening to the entire score.

I only wish I knew how to find the whole musical score. You won't find it on eBay.com. I already tried searching.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (1688273) 15 years ago

Not only does the music rule, but check out the fantastic editing and photography at the end of the film. From the lines "Derail it? That means killing everybody on board!" "...Maybe it's war..." to the end of the film, you have the greated pans, zooms and cuts ever.

[–] chrisasiama 15 years ago

^ Yeah the music in this film is great and that final part of the film is really well put together. I love the musical build up and the way the camera zooms in pans during the climax.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I really liked the music in this film. The whistling theme was great.