Best John Carpenter film score

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Vote for the best score, not the best movie. Pulled from AllMusic so sorry if this list is inaccurate.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Escape from New York	4
Halloween III	3
Halloween	2
Assault on Precinct 13	1
Vampires	1
Ghosts of Mars	1
Prince of Darkness	1
The Fog	1
Big Trouble in Little China	0
Christine	0
Halloween II	0
Body Bags	0
Village of the Damned	0
In the Mouth of Madness	0
Escape from LA	0
They Live	0

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:40 (ten years ago)

I mean, we all know it's between AoP13, Halloween, and EfNY but I had to put the rest on here for the sake of comprehensiveness.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:40 (ten years ago)

As amazing as the main AoP13 theme is, I'm voting for Escape from New York because it's the best overall score.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:41 (ten years ago)

I don't know them all that well, but I know I like Halloween III so I guess I'll vote for that

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:50 (ten years ago)

imo halloween 3

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:56 (ten years ago)

Prince of Darkness for life over here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVFlMy5kdw

― how's life, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:15 (ten years ago)

Athough the Big Trouble in Little China credits are pretty classic too and that soundtrack also has this gem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvYEdmW47gQ

― how's life, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:16 (ten years ago)

prince of darkness is my other favorite. admittedly i haven't heard all of these and picking one out of the soundtracks i love is kinda splitting hairs

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:17 (ten years ago)

I'm kind of feeling The Fog for this. Great expended edition came out last year.

Halloween III is indeed awesome. I think that one's as much an Alan howarth joint as a J Carps. Halloween I is one of those OSTs that I love to think about and I'm always glad it is sitting there balefully waiting to be played but then I always end up losing attention when I put it on.

― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:23 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 15 September 2014 00:01 (ten years ago)

Halloween III intro music is nuts! amazing and nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAtOAMs3CJM

― piscesx, Thursday, 18 September 2014 00:47 (ten years ago)

Great record

― arthur treacher, or the fall of the british empire (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 18 September 2014 01:34 (ten years ago)

Boo @ zero votes for Christine.

― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:23 (ten years ago)

would have voted AoP13

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:23 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

Waxwork Records releasing The Fog and Escape from N.Y.

― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Monday, 31 August 2020 00:01 (four years ago)

Escape is awesome.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 August 2020 00:02 (four years ago)

one year passes...

https://pitchfork.com/news/john-carpenter-announces-firestarter-soundtrack-shares-new-song-listen

Read that studio disappointment in "The Thing" (fools!) pushed him out of directing the original "Firestarter", so cool that he's doing the remake's soundtrack. As a kid, I found the book pretty grim for orphaning the girl by the end. Thinking about that now, not much different than "The Road", I guess.

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:15 (three years ago)

First Tangerine Dream, now Carpenter. Not bad for one of my lesser favorite first-wave King books.

― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:18 (three years ago)

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