John Carpenter's Michael's Legend

2021-09-29 by Fernando Alves | 9 Comments
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies have shared the third and final single, 'Michael's Legend', off the forthcoming Halloween Kills soundtrack, out October 15th on Sacred Bones. You can stream it below.



Press release goes as follows:
It's just five notes plucked out on a piano, so sparsely arranged that it feels like barely more than a sketch, so simple that an untrained player can easily pick it up, but it's one of cinema's greatest musical accomplishments. By now, John Carpenter's hypnotic theme to his 1978 horror masterpiece Halloween has embodied slasher-stalker anxiety for generations of filmgoers, and woven itself so into pop culture that it's become musical shorthand for the entire horror genre. And like the seemingly unkillable Michael Meyers, it's back once again.

In 2018, Carpenter returned to the franchise his iconic creation spawned for the first time since 1982's Halloween III: Season of the Witch, erasing the 40 years of sequels and reboots that happened under other filmmakers, and returning the story to his original vision. While directing duties for the new Halloween and its sequels have been turned over to David Gordon Green, Carpenter has stayed on to provide them with their unmistakable sonic identity, as integral to Halloween as Michael Meyers’ death’s-face mask and glimmering butcher knife.

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Aerisavion
September 29th 2021
4051 Comments


Much as I love Halloween and the recent soundtracks, promoting this with three 'singles' ripped out of the movie feels a little strange.

TheSonomaDude
September 29th 2021
10184 Comments


one of the best to ever live

Panzerchrist
September 29th 2021
794 Comments


"returning the story to his original vision"

it literally isn't tho

He wanted Halloween to be an anthology series, and the only reason he made the second one a straight sequel was because of studio demand. Thus why Season of the Witch is the way it is. Shame it didn't stay in that vain too because that premise is much more interesting than another horror franchise incapable of changing in any substantial way

Panzerchrist
September 29th 2021
794 Comments


Track is cool though. Agreed that it really doesn't stand as a standalone track though. Kind of an odd angle for release

Brabiz
September 29th 2021
3152 Comments


This movie is gunna blow ass like the last one. What a shame this great score is wasted on it

ChaoticVortex
September 29th 2021
1616 Comments


God Carpenter is soooo good. I don't even care if the movie is gonna be a mindless gorefest I'm gonna watch it just for thr score alone.

juiceviaorange
September 30th 2021
1168 Comments


Movie is gonna rule, quit crying

Rowhaus
September 30th 2021
8090 Comments


Movie's definitely gonna rule

TheSonomaDude
March 30th 2025
10184 Comments


movie was ass but soundtrack was great



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