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Hilarious how unfitting the music was

posted 11 years ago by mattiasflgrtll6
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Just turn on any 80's-horror movie with a low budget you can find, and you'll find random tunes more appropriate for a music video or chase scene music instead of an actual horrifying score XD
I laughed my freakin' ass off!
By the way, pretty happy over how good this movie actually was! Great acting, characters you actually give a damn for and even a decent script! Most certainly one of the better horror movies I've seen, even if it in fact was more funny than it was scary! ;)

[–] askmonroville 9 years ago

I kind of loved the industrial sound of the music. I never felt it was inappropriate, or goofy when it was supposed to be scary or kind of pointless like how a lot of music for $100 million+ movies in the past decade have been.

Much like AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (which I will allow is a better film), it knew when to be funny and when to be scary.

[–] largo2032 8 years ago

The music had that eighties Italian horror feel about it. Felt like I was watching Dario Argento or Bava or Fulci film.

[–] rateater (10247) 4 years ago

i liked the music a lot

[–] BlackMass (1203) 3 years ago

The music was composed by OMD members Martin Cooper and Dave Hughes. Since OMD are one of the great, influential synthesizer acts of the later 20th century (yes, American friends, they go way deeper than "If You Leave"), I downloaded the soundtrack and thought it was tremendous. Moody, mid-80s electronics from two talented musical minds.

The film itself came later for me. By then the music was too embedded in my mind as the definitive document of C.H.U.D., to not fit the movie.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

I liked the music.