Description

Black vinyl with 4-page booklet that folds out to a movie poster

Ever since the classic Horror movie genre was at its peak during the pre-WWII era, Mary Shelley’s The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) starring Boris Karloff still remains the true cream of the crop. The black and white movie, directed by James Whale, is a prime example of how suspense meets great storytelling, the film’s thriller elements making it a benchmark for many film directors. Its score was written by Franz Waxman, the legendary German-American classic composer with an impressive number of Academy Award Nominations movies to his name. Waxman wrote engaging soundtracks for classic films such as Rebecca (1940), Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1941), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Nun’s Story (1959) and many more. This is the first time ever that this soundtracks has been released on vinyl. Franz Waxman’s The Bride Of Frankenstein soundtrack has strange, sweeping yet disquieting melodies and unusual timbres, it was some of the most ambitious music ever written for the screen — indeed, if Max Steiner’s score to King Kong made that movie into a ‘symphony accompanied by a motion picture,’ in the words of composer-pianist Oscar Levant, then Waxman’s music for The Bride of Frankenstein gave that movie the impact and sweep of a Wagnerian opera (although the finale recalls the Mahler ‘Symphony No. 2’).

Track list:
1. Main Title
2. Prologue / Menuetto and Storm / Monster Entrance
3. Processional March
4. Strange Apparition / Pretorius’ Entrance / You Will Need A Coat
5. Bottle Sequence
6. Female Monster / Pastorale / Village Chase / Crucifixion
7. Fire In The Hut / Graveyard
8. Dance Macabre
9. The Creation / The Tower Explodes / Finale