Description: Horror news, reviews and nonsense.
Horror news, reviews and nonsense.
It is far and away from being too emphatic to say that from 1979 to 2006, one woman was integral, sonically speaking, to your movie-going and television-watching experiences. If you grew up with the gothic triumphs of Batman (and his animated counterpart), the horror and nightmares of Colonel Kurtz, the yardstick-wielding antics of Chucky, the L.A.-surfing badassness of Snake Plissken, the cookie-cut heart of Edward Scissorhands, or the delightfully disturbing designs of Death itself, you’ve heard the music
Shirley began her career as a pianist, working specifically in the San Francisco Symphony, meanwhile writing music primarily for industrial films and commercial projects from the late 1960s into the 1970s, until finally being brought onto the incredible musical team of Apocalypse Now (1979) to perform synths and arrange parts for other synth players, realising Carmine Coppola’s score. Her work and arrangements can be heard, eerily interwoven throughout the film, but notably during cues like “Do Lung” and “T