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Halloween is a soundtrack album composed and performed by John Carpenter, featuring the score to the 1978 film Halloween.It was released in Japan in 1979 by Columbia Records and in the United States in 1983 through Varèse Sarabande.
On the night of Halloween, 1963, in the suburban Illinois town of Haddonfield, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally stabs his teenage sister Judith to death with a chef's knife. 15 years later, his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis drives with nurse Marion Chambers to the sanitarium where Michael is incarcerated to escort him to a court hearing.
Halloween Kills' soundtrack, containing the original score, is led by two singles. Coinciding the album's announcement, the first song "Unkillable" was released on August 19, 2021, [8] [9] which was followed by the second song "Rampage" was released on September 7, [10] [11] [12] and the third track "Michael's Legend" released on September 25. [13]
The original music score for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is composed and orchestrated by long-time Halloween contributor Alan Howarth, his work in the series dating back to his collaboration with John Carpenter on Halloween II. However, Howarth's score was redone by music editor Paul Rabjohns when the film went through reshoots. [2] [3]
Michael Myers is a character from the slasher film series Halloween. He first appears in 1978 in John Carpenter's Halloween as a young boy who murders his elder sister, Judith Myers. Fifteen years later, he returns home to Haddonfield, Illinois, to murder more teenagers.
John's original 1978 theme, was used as the main title theme for its 2018 sequel, with the influence of modern technology throughout the creative process. Compared to the original 1979 soundtrack, the 2018 version of the album had an energized feel, as John addressed the benefits of the technologies used in it.
All-4-One and John Michael Montgomery recorded an updated duet version of "I Swear" for the deluxe edition of All-4-One's 2015 album Twenty+. A music video for this duet version was released on May 9, 2016. In 2021, All-4-One recorded a remix of "I Swear" for a music video promoting Xbox All-Access, titled "It's All There". [20]
Although Zombie added more history to the Michael Myers character, hence creating more original content for the film, he chose to keep the character's trademark mask and Carpenter's theme song intact for his version (despite an apparent misinterpretation in an interview suggesting the theme would be ditched). [20]