So Good It's Scary! Varese Plans "Little Box of Horrors"

So Good It’s Scary! Varese Plans “Little Box of Horrors”

November 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

Those soundtrack geniuses at Varese Sarabande have scared up some appropriate soundtrack news for Halloween, announcing a box set next month that will collect a dozen rare, unreleased and out of print horror scores from across five decades!

The Little Box of Horrors is a 12CD set featuring spooky soundtracks to films from an Emmy-nominated 1968 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde all the way to Wes Craven’s Dracula 2000. There’s a pair of scores by Jerry Goldsmith for occult pictures (The Mephisto Waltz and The Other), Howard Shore’s score to David Cronenberg’s gory, acclaimed remake of The Fly; plus slashers great (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream) and small (1980 guerrilla film Maniac).

Best of all, collectors will note that seven of the 12 scores are out of print in their various forms. One, Charles Bernstein’s score to Wes Craven’s sci-fi horror flick Deadly Friend, makes its debut on CD in this box, while three scores–Bob Cobert’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Richard Stone’s Pumpkinhead and Marco Beltrami’s Dracula 2000–are available here for the first time anywhere.

Little Box of Horrors, packaged in a black carrying case reminiscent of the label’s LP-to-CD subscription service (and including a 24-page booklet of liner notes written by author Randall Larson), looks to be the perfect gift for the horror music maven in your life. The set will go on sale on the label’s official site Friday, November 18 at 10 a.m. PST, with a price tag of $99. See the full list of titles in the box below!

Little Box of Horrors (Varese Sarabande, 2016)

* First time on CD

** Premiere release

*** Out of print/reissue

Disc 1: Charles Bernstein, Deadly Friend: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (originally released as Varese Sarabande STV-81291, 1986) *

Disc 2: Marco Beltrami, Dracula 2000: Original Score from the Dimension Motion Picture (original film released 2000) **

Disc 3: Howard Shore, The Fly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (originally released as Varese Sarabande STV-81289, 1986) ***

Disc 4: Michael Convertino, The Hidden: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (originally released as Varese Sarabande STV-81349, 1987) ***

Disc 5: Jay Chattaway, Maniac: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (originally released as Varese Sarabande STV-81143, 1980) ***

Disc 6: Jerry Goldsmith, The Mephisto Waltz / The Other: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (originally released as Varese Sarabande VSD-5851, 1997 – original films released 1971/1972) ***

Disc 7: Marco Beltrami, Mimic: Music from the Dimension Motion Picture – The Deluxe Edition (originally released as Varese Sarabande VCL 1011 1126, 2011 – original film released 1997) ***

Disc 8: Charles Bernstein, A Nightmare on Elm Street: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (originally released as Varese Sarabande STV-81236, 1984)

Disc 9: Richard Stone, Pumpkinhead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (original film released 1989) **

Disc 10: Marco Beltrami, Scream: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – The Deluxe Edition (originally released as Varese Sarabande VCL 0511 1120, 2011 – original film released 1996) ***

Disc 11: Brad Fiedel, The Serpent and The Rainbow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (originally released as Varese Sarabande STV-81362, 1988) ***

Disc 12: Bob Cobert, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (original film released 1968) **

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Mike Duquette

Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.