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May 18, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Halloween Kills: DVD

Halloween Kills Director: David Gordon Green Universal Sony Pictures P/I I finally caught up with Halloween Kills – now streaming and on DVD, I had missed its brief cinema run and was disappointed, having rewatched most of the franchise in anticipation.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged David Gordon Green, DVD, DVD Review, Film Review, Franchise, Halloween, Halloween Kills, Halloween Kills: DVD, Horror, Horror Film, Michael Myers, Movie, Movie Review, Reboot, Sequel, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here ·

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October 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Ben Living: Crystal Lake Tapes vol. 1

Ben Living Crystal Lake Tapes vol. 1 Earthship Records Drummer, producer, remixer and – crucially – horror movie fanatic, Ben Living takes snippets from the theme tunes and dialogue from the movies he loves and bends them to fit into new shapes; basically cut’n’paste instrumental hip-hop. Previously he took the music and dialogue from the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bandcamp, Ben Living, Ben Living: Crystal Lake Tapes vol. 1, Crystal Lake Tapes, Crystal Lake Tapes vol. 1, Drummer, Earthship Record, Friday The 13th, Halloween, Horror Movie, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Producer, Remix, Soundtrack, The Haddonfield Recordings, Vol. 1, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Ben Living: The Haddonfield Recordings

Ben Living The Haddonfield Recordings Earthship Records Drummer, producer, remixer – sonic prankster – Ben Living gets to combine his clever skills with his deep love of horror films here on a project that takes samples of the Halloween film and score and bends them into the shape of what you might once have expected […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Ben Living, Ben Living: The Haddonfield Recordings, DJ Shadow, DJ Spooky, Earthship Records, Ennio Morricone, Halloween, Horror, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, John Carpenter, Lalo Schifrin, Mix, Remix, Sample, Scanner, Score, Soundtrack, The Haddonfield Recordings, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Alan Howarth: Live at Hollywood Theater

Alan Howarth Live at Hollywood Theater Bsx Records Inc Alan Howarth is a composer and sound engineer – best known for his work with John Carpenter (as well as several volumes of the Halloween films he has composed and/or performed aspects of the score for Christine, Prince of Darkness, Escape From New York, They Live […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], 20/20, 2014, 2018), Alan Howarth, Alan Howarth: Live at Hollywood Theater, Assault on Precinct 13, Big Trouble In Little China, Bsx Records Inc, Composer, Composition, Film Score, Halloween, Horror, John Carpenter, Live, Live At Hollywood Theater, Score, Solo, Sound Design, Soundtrack, The Thing, They Live, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Watching Donald Pleasance In The Halloween Films

Donald Pleasance in those Halloween films, hanging on every line chewing the scenery and spitting out clichés, doing the best he can to be so bad Michael Myers walks so slowly that even with that big knife you could just break into a wee jog, a tiny sweat and be done with it all. But […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Donald Pleasance, Franchise, Halloween, Horror Films, Poem, Poem: Watching Donald Pleasance In The Halloween Films, Watching Donald Pleasance In The Halloween Films ·

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September 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies: Halloween – Expanded Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies Halloween: Expanded Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sacred Bones John Carpenter’s original score for the original Halloween movie is what saved it – the low-budget movie which is legendary now for its kickstarting of a new strain of horror films and for its pioneering indie film spirit was […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], 2018), Album Review, Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies, Director, Fanchise, Film, Godson, Halloween, Halloween Reboot, Halloween: Expanded Edition, Halloween: Expanded Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Horror, Horror Movie, John Carpenter, Lost Themes, Lost Themes II, Movie, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Scared Bones, Sequels, Son, Soundtrack, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Horror Movie Scores: Some Favourites

On a big horror kick right now. I feel like I have been on a big horror movie kick since I was 13. That’s when I conquered any fear of being frightened by overdosing on horror films. The good, the bad, the ugly. Now I’m catching up on some classics I haven’t seen – or […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], A Nightmare On Elm Street, Dawn of the Dead, Exorcist, Fantomas, Film, Films, Freddy Krueger, Friday The 13th, George Romero, Halloween, Harry Manfredini, Hellraiser, Horror, Horror Movie, Horror Movie Scores, Horror Movie Scores: Some Favourites, It, Jaws, John Carpenter, Mike Oldfield, Movies, Music, Omen, Psycho, Score, Some Favourites, Soundtrack, Stephen King, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Director's Cut, They Live, Tubular Bells, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Getting Ready For Freddy

A Nightmare On Elm Street was the one that cured me from getting scared – or worried at all – by horror films. The entire franchise, I mean. Not just the first film. But certainly the first four are the ones I adore. Well, number two is a bit shit (sorry!) But it gets a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Nightmare On Elm Street, Anthrax, Are You Ready For Freddy?, Freddy Krueger, Friday The 13th, Getting Ready For Freddy, Halloween, Horror Films, Megadeth, Metallica, Poem, Poem: Getting Ready For Freddy, Slayer ·

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February 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: I Used To Be Scared of Horror Films So I Watched Every Single One From The Local Video Store And Now I’m Cured

When I was a kid a rather stupid movie had a deep impact on me. It’s called Alligator. It’s from about 1980 – and I reckon we saw it just a few years after that. And in it, a pet alligator gets flushed down the loo. It ends up in the sewer where the bodies […]
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October 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Daughters of Darkness (October 29)

The Wellington Film Society is back tonight – after last weekend’s pause for Labour Weekend. Here we are now with Halloween almost at the doorstep, as it were. And so…to Daughters of Darkness. Re-released more than a decade after its 1971 debut, Daughters of Darkness has lost none of the eerie, subterranean fascination it held for its […]
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April 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Hush: Film

Hush Director: Mike Flanagan Intrepid Pictures/Blumhouse Productions/Netflix Hush is being praised, and deservedly so, for being a trim, taut horror-thriller. There’s nothing new in the story – a stalker/home-invasion set-up with a remote location. But this doesn’t rely on being some overt homage either. There are nods – the film opens with a shot that […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Film, Film Review, Halloween, Home Invasion, Horror, Hush, Hush: Film, John Gallagher Jr, Kate Siegel, Michael Myers, Mike Flanagan, Movie Review, Netflix, Score, Scream, Sound Design, Stalker, The Newton Brothers, Thriller, Wait Until Dark ·

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November 3, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1248

V/A, The Godfathers of Psychobilly (2012) You too can build your own Tarantino-esque soundtrack/comp with something like this – a pretty cool double album; a few things I know quite well already and a few I hadn’t heard – the perfect thing then. Played a few of these as part of my Halloween DJ set […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2012, 2LP, Compilation, Double Vinyl, Halloween, Jack The Ripper, Link Wray and His Ray Men, LP, Tarantino, The Godfathers of Psychobilly, V/A, Various, Vinyl ·
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