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With Halloween just around the corner, Varese Sarabande Records has scared up a pair of fantastic horror soundtrack reissues for its CD Club!

One of the label’s most famous soundtrack releases comes back for more! Jerry Goldsmith’s score to The Omen gets a brand-new overhaul for its 40th anniversary. Richard Donner’s classic thriller stars Gregory Peck as an ambassador to England who realizes only too late that his son Damien–an orphan adopted in secret when his own child was stillborn–is actually the Antichrist. Goldsmith’s iconic score, with its unforgettable choral theme “Ave Satani,” earned the venerable composer the only Oscar of his storied career!

First released by Varese for the film’s 25th anniversary in 2001, this remastered 40th anniversary presentation includes six previously unreleased score cues plus a bonus suite of themes recorded at the third Fimucité film score festival in 2009.

Over 20 years after The Omen, horror master Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson joined forces for a new kind of slasher film: 1996’s Scream. This self-aware scarefest was a runaway hit, and 1997 saw the release of the first of three sequels. This time, survivor Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell)’s idyllic college life is upended when a film about the original murders inspires a copycat killer on her campus. Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy and Liev Schrieber reprise their roles from the original film, and Marco Beltrami returns to score the film.

While Beltrami’s stellar work was somewhat overshadowed in post-production (when tracked music from Hans Zimmer’s Broken Arrow score and a last-minute choral piece by Danny Elfman were included), this release–the first wide release of Scream 2 since a 1998 CD featuring highlights from the first two films (recently released on vinyl by Varese), and a complement to Varese’s expansion of Scream in 2011–brings his music to the forefront for the first time.

The Omen is limited to 3,000 copies, while Scream 2 taps out at 2,000. Both can be ordered now from the label; links and track lists are below!

Jerry Goldsmith, The Omen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – 40th Anniversary Edition (Varese Sarabande VCL 1016 1175, 2016 – original film released 1976)

1. Ave Satani
2. On This Night
3. The New Ambassador
4. Where is He?
5. Fatal Fall/It’s All for You *
6. The Dog *
7. I Was There
8. Have No Fear *
9. Broken Vows
10. Safari Park
11. A Doctor, Please
12. She’ll Die *
13. The Killer Storm
14. The Fall
15. Don’t Let Him
16. The Day He Died
17. Father Spiletto *
18. The Dogs Attack
19. Mother’s Death *
20. A Sad Message
21. Beheaded
22. The Bed
23. 666
24. The Demise of Mrs. Baylock
25. The Altar
26. The Piper Dreams
27. The Omen Suite (Live @ Fimucité 3, Santa Cruz de Tenerife – 7/25/2009) – Diego Navarro & The Tenerife Film Orchestra *

Tracks 1, 3, 10, 13-15, 18-19 and 24-26 released as Tattoo Records BJL1-1888, 1976
Tracks 1-4, 7, 9-11, 13-16, 18 and 20-26 released as Varese Sarabande 302 066 288-2, 2001
Track 27 released on Fimucité 3: Jerry Goldsmith 80th Birthday Tribute Concert (Varese Sarabande VCL 0511 1122, 2011)

Marco Beltrami, Scream 2: Original Motion Picture Score – The Deluxe Edition (Varese Sarabande VCL 1016 1176, 2016 – original film released 1997)

1. Opening
2. Phil Scares Maureen
3. Maureen Steals the Show
4. Your Lucky Day
5. Check Out the News
6. Sid and Randy Talk
7. Introducing Gail Again
8. Sid and Dewey Talk
9. Dewey’s Theme
10. Cici’s Home
11. Cici Gets the Call
12. Cici is Killed
13. Crime Scene
14. Sidney is Attacked
15. Derek At Hospital
16. Killing Theories
17. Cassandra Aria *
18. Sid Runs Into Derek
19. Murder in the Van
20. Sid in Library
21. Cotton Confronts Sidney
22. Cops Question Cotton
23. Joel Quits
24. Dewey and Gail Attacked
25. Sid Says Goodbye
26. Sid Needs a New Roommate
27. Cassandra Reprise *
28. Showdown
29. The Big Showdown
30. Sid Kills Killer
31. More Lives Than a Cat
32. Scream 2 Theme

* composed by Danny Elfman

Previously released in part on Varese Sarabande VSD-5959, 1998