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I'll start: Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult in the opening sequence of The Stand miniseries (1994)
Posted : June 15, 2026 5:22 pm
The IT: WELCOME TO DERRY opening credits were amazing, and the song was an earworm.
https://youtu.be/qwTop2qs1tE?si=zB2Q2wlxVRFPjyHI
Posted : June 16, 2026 2:36 am
rmquist reacted
There can only be one.
The opening credits to John Carpenters Halloween.
Also, I don’t know the name of the classical music piece, but the opening to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining also sticks out in my head.
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Posted : June 16, 2026 3:53 am
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The IT: WELCOME TO DERRY opening credits were amazing, and the song was an earworm.
Nothing like a a few glimpses of quaint, small-town fun to start your day 🤣🤣🤣
Posted : June 16, 2026 12:36 pm
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There can only be one.
The opening credits to John Carpenters Halloween.
Brilliant music - composed by Carpenter himself, although for some reason I thought it was composed by John Williams (probably because it felt like he did all the best music for all the best movies)
Also, I don’t know the name of the classical music piece, but the opening to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining also sticks out in my head.
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Of course I had to look it up... according to Google:
The main title in The Shining uses a traditional melody known as “Dies irae.” Translated from Latin as “day of wrath,” it is a somber chant dating back to the Middle Ages. The melody was originally used as part of funeral church services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylfy_L6Bjs
Posted : June 16, 2026 12:43 pm
The opening of the original STAR WARS blew me out of the theater as a six-year-old, and I will always have a soft spot for MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME...Tina Turner's "One of the Living" always gives me chills.
Posted : June 16, 2026 1:42 pm
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The opening of the original STAR WARS blew me out of the theater as a six-year-old, and I will always have a soft spot for MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME...Tina Turner's "One of the Living" always gives me chills.
Both great movies - and it's incredible to me that the STAR WARS premiered 49 years ago
Tina Turner was absolutely fantastic!
Posted : June 16, 2026 5:13 pm
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If we throw in television shows, it's hard to beat The Twilight Zone, X-Files, and The Night Stalker.
I will say The Omega Man, a film adaption of Matheson's I AM LEGEND (the second adaptation of (thus far) three), has one of the worst soundtracks. Very time-locked in the '70s, yes, but that's not the issue...it's just jarring in the way it doesn't often match the scene. I love the film in spite of it, an absolute seminal film from my childhood.
Posted : June 16, 2026 6:06 pm
Maximum Overdrive - ‘Who Made Who’ by AC/DC
That song was the only good thing to come out of that coke-infused dumpster fire by King!
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Posted : June 17, 2026 2:03 am
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If we throw in television shows, it's hard to beat The Twilight Zone, X-Files, and The Night Stalker.
I will say The Omega Man, a film adaption of Matheson's I AM LEGEND (the second adaptation of (thus far) three), has one of the worst soundtracks. Very time-locked in the '70s, yes, but that's not the issue...it's just jarring in the way it doesn't often match the scene. I love the film in spite of it, an absolute seminal film from my childhood.
You gave me a good laugh there, Ron. I listen to movie scores sometimes when I read comics, and THE OMEGA MAN is in my soundtrack rotation. I consider it a "So bad it's good" CD. A few rare tracks match well with the scene, but, as you said, most scene/track matches are real headscratchers.
I remember watching the film on the 4:30 movie back in The Bronx with my saintly grandmother, who watched most of it through her fingers. She was a great sport, lol.
Posted : June 17, 2026 2:42 am
rmquist reacted
Maybe not the best overall but certainly the best for that story/movie. I love it and it was perfect.
Maximum Overdrive - ‘Who Made Who’ by AC/DC
That song was the only good thing to come out of that coke-infused dumpster fire by King!
Posted : June 23, 2026 4:04 pm
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Maximum Overdrive - ‘Who Made Who’ by AC/DC
That song was the only good thing to come out of that coke-infused dumpster fire by King!
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>> That song was the only good thing to come out of that coke-infused dumpster fire by King!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Entertaining, but certainly not King's best work
Posted : June 23, 2026 5:18 pm
Maximum Overdrive - ‘Who Made Who’ by AC/DC
That song was the only good thing to come out of that coke-infused dumpster fire by King!
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>> That song was the only good thing to come out of that coke-infused dumpster fire by King!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Entertaining, but certainly not King's best work
HA HA!
Yeah, thank god King went back to writing and gave up making movies!
We’re all better off for it.
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Posted : June 24, 2026 3:25 am
rmquist reacted
You know, it got a lot of flak when the movie first came out but I always loved the Metallica-influenced opening music to John Carpenter's In The Mouth of Madness.
More horror adjacent, but Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" at the beginning of Fincher's Seven is pitch-perfect for the film (so is the Pixies' "Where is My Mind?" at the end of Fight Club, but that's not an opening song nor a horror film...).
Posted : June 24, 2026 6:39 pm
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