Bram Stoker's Dracula | ||
 | Composer: Wojciech Kilar Label: Columbia Producer: Wojciech Kilar Conductor: Anton Coppola Buy this soundtrack:   | 3 Ratings |
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| 01 Dracula - The Beginning (6:41) 02 Vampire Hunters (3:06) 03 Mina's Photo (1:25) 04 Lucy's Party (2:56) 05 The Brides (4:56) 06 The Storm (5:04) 07 Love Remembered (4:10) 08 The Hunt Builds (3:25) 09 The Hunters Prelude (1:29) 10 The Green Mist (0:54) 11 Mina / Dracula (4:47) 12 The Ring Of Fire (1:51) 13 Love Eternal (2:23) 14 Ascension (0:50) 15 End Credits (6:44) 16 Love Song For A Vampire (4:20) Total Length: 55:09 | |||||||||||
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Reviewed by James - Grade: B Over-the-top and brooding, Kilar's Bram Stoker's Dracula is a bloody, good time. Ironically, Wojciech Kilar's Bram Stoker's Dracula tends to be a bit divisive in the film music community, even though every one kind of agrees about what it is doing. Everyone says it is explosive, propulsive, and insanely over the top. The disagreement is whether or not that it is a good thing. I think it's a great thing, personally. Coppola's movie is so overblown and spectacular that it requires a score that is just as massive. And Kilar delivers, with pulse-pounding, ear shattering music that fits the film like a glove. The most prevalent theme of the score is not for Dracula, but for Van Helsing and his posse of vampire hunters. Heard most prevalently in "The Vampire Hunters" and "The Hunt Builds," this popular theme is propulsive and intense - though interestingly, not heroic at all. Is this possibly Kilar's way of musically showing that even the good guys aren't necessarily "good"? So what is "good"? The answer in the movie is love. Love is good. And Kilar signifies this by composing an intensely powerful love theme, best heard in "Mina/Dracula" and "Love Eternal." And as beautiful as this love theme is, it isn't sappy or lovey-dovey. It's actually kinda depressing. Kilar isn't trying to get our hopes up. This is a doomed love affair and it's only a matter of time before a staking and decapitation ends it. There are other highlights in the album, from the seductive creepiness in "The Brides" to the pounding "The Storm." There is a lot of fun stuff in here. There are a few missteps, too. "The Ring of Fire" is utterly unlistenable, as it consists primarily of snarls, screams, and horses dying. It's scary; I'll give Kilar that. Don't listen to this track with the lights out because you'll probably mess yourself. But the album would have been better off without it because it is a tough listen and breaks the momentum of the music. The Annie Lennox song at the end is also a miss; musically it sounds like nothing else on the album and is just an annoying excuse to try and sell more albums. The last complaint is that even though individual tracks are superb, I feel like the album as a whole isn't really cohesive. It doesn't seem to flow and develop or build much momentum, sounding more like a collection of highlights instead of a complete listen. But these are small quibbles in what is otherwise a bloody good time. With Halloween around the corner, you should check it out! More Movie Soundtracks
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