Filmmaker John Carpenter will again rework themes from his movies for “John Carpenter: Anthology II (Movies Themes 1976-1988),” a follow-up to his 2017 first Anthology album.
Carpenter, who famously did the scores for a bunch of his own films, takes the music from those past films and modernizes them with frequent collaborators Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter.
The first album tackled tracks from his films like “Halloween,” “Escape From New York,” “Big Trouble in Little China,” “Dark Star,” “Christine,” “The Fog,” “In the Mouth of Madness,” “Assault on Precinct 13,” “Prince of Darkness,” and “Vampires”.
Here we get newly reworked tracks from those many of those films, along with tracks from “Halloween II” and “Halloween III” which he didn’t direct but produced and did the scores for. His reworking of the “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” theme ‘Chariot of Pumpkins’ is already available now on YouTube and streaming music platforms.
Most exciting is that the album will also include three previously unreleased tracks for his Antarctic masterpiece “The Thing”. Carpenter ditched his own score for the film after landing the legendary Ennio Morricone to handle it instead, so their inclusion here is a big deal. The full tracklist is as follows:
Chariots of Pumpkins (Halloween III)
69th St. Bridge (Escape from New York)
The Alley (War) (Big Trouble in Little China)
Wake Up (They Live)
Julie’s Dead (Assault on Precinct 13)
The Shape Enters Laurie’s Room (Halloween II)
Season of the Witch (Halloween III)
Love at a Distance (Prince of Darkness)
The Shape Stalks Again (Halloween II)
Burn it (The Thing)
Fuchs (The Thing)
To Mac’s Shack (The Thing)
Walk to the Lighthouse (The Fog)
Laurie’s Theme (Halloween)
“John Carpenter: Anthology II (Movies Themes 1976-1988)” releases on October 6th through Sacred Bones Records.
Source: Bloody Disgusting
