The Dark Half
Christopher Young
" The Dark Christopher Young half "Written by Thomas Glorieux - Review of the regular release
George A. Romero (aka the director of the zombie films) turned to Stephen King's material for The Dark Half. Stephen King you say? Perfect food for then already known horror specialist Christopher Young. The effort is understandably from a good quality. Young's music is typically sinister and eerie, occasionally even downright scary. The most optimistic cue "Green to Green" is one of the rare occasions where Young steps away from the creepiness and goes for a lighter approach (accidentally delivering a Back to the Future feeling, you'll know it once it opens the track). Not so accidentally is the Khachaturian Aliens like opening in "Twin Ghosts", easily intended to sound and copy the feel of it. In the end this is not a large horror score. But the opening and closing tracks are typical Young highlights, with especially the final one delivering the reason why he was hired for Species in the first place.
There's always a level of satisfaction to be found in Young's music
Ideas that would later resurface in Species get their first test run here
"Sparrows", the first track to fully feature a minute of thundering orchestra and crashing atonality
Sadly the longest track "Omnibus Death" is also the least interesting one
It could have been larger I'm afraid
Track Listing
1. Prologue and Tumor (6.18)
2. Twin Ghosts (2.45)
3. Mind Snatcher (1.56)
4. Green to Green (2.03)
5. Dano (2.41)
6. Mr. Machine (4.03)
7. Omnibus Death (10.26)
8. Catechize (1.21)
9. Berol Black Beauty (2.26)
10. Half Divided One (2.02)
11. Fool's Stuff (3.40)
12. Sparrows (2.39)
13. The Dark Half (4.40) Excellent track
Total Length: 47.00
There's always a level of satisfaction to be found in Young's music
Ideas that would later resurface in Species get their first test run here
"Sparrows", the first track to fully feature a minute of thundering orchestra and crashing atonality
Sadly the longest track "Omnibus Death" is also the least interesting one
It could have been larger I'm afraid
Track Listing
1. Prologue and Tumor (6.18)
2. Twin Ghosts (2.45)
3. Mind Snatcher (1.56)
4. Green to Green (2.03)
5. Dano (2.41)
6. Mr. Machine (4.03)
7. Omnibus Death (10.26)
8. Catechize (1.21)
9. Berol Black Beauty (2.26)
10. Half Divided One (2.02)
11. Fool's Stuff (3.40)
12. Sparrows (2.39)
13. The Dark Half (4.40) Excellent track
Total Length: 47.00