Before they turned into Jock Rock comps, Horror movies used to have actual soundtracks. Soundtracks that were composed with the film in mind and as integral to the experience as the main antagonist . Goblin’s soundtrack to Suspiria is a commonly celebrated example of this, but it is hardly the only one.

Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm is not only one of my favorite Horror films series, but has a pretty wicked soundtrack to boot. Composed by Fred Myrow & Malcom Seagrave, this suspenseful score perfectly captures not only the the grave robbing, inter-dimensional horror that is Phantasm but that distinct exhuberence and ambitious nature of 1970s synth based music. Think of it as The Tall Man, The Balls, The Dwarves & Giorgio Moroder.

If you’ve never seen the film, do so. It’s one of those overlooked Horror greats that leaves a lot of the story and motives to mystery and is delightfully very 70s. This soundtrack includes not only the score to the original 1979 film, but 4 tracks from the superior 1988 sequal which has sadly never made it to DVD.

Phantasm Original Movie Soundtrack

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