The document discusses horror film soundtracks, noting they are often darkly romantic but influenced by impressionism, atonality, and surrealism. It lists popular horror soundtracks such as Halloween, The Exorcist, Psycho, Jaws, Saw, and The Wicker Man. The purpose of horror soundtracks is to represent the film's tone and genre through music since non-diegetic sound is crucial in horror films with little dialogue to make the film recognizable, as aimed for in the author's short film which relies on music over dialogue or diegetic sound.

1. Sound Research
Horror Soundtracks - Often themusic for horror soundtrackswas darkly romantic, but
heavily influenced by impressionism, atonality and surrealism.
Popular Horror Soundtracks
 Halloween (John Carpenter)
 The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
 Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
 Saw (James Wan)
 The Wicker Man (Paul Giovanni)
The purposeof thehorror soundtrack is to represent thetoneof thefilm and the genre
through music. Without dialoguein a film, non-diegetic sound is crucial in making a film,
especially of the horror genre. Somefilms becomefamous and recognisablethrough the
soundtrack and this is what I haveaimed to do with my short film. I havenot used any
dialogueor much diegetic sound at all and haveinstead relied on the music in thefilm to
represent thegenre and overall tone.