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KEY FEATURES

• The Complete Score Album For The First Time Ever
• Never Before Released Score Cues and Outtakes
• The Re-Mastered Original 1979 Score Album
• Exclusive Liner Notes by Don Coscarelli
• Artwork by Graham Humphreys
• Heavyweight Triple LP Gatefold Packaging
• 11"x11" Insert

RELEASE DESCRIPTION

Waxwork Records is thrilled to release PHANTASM Original Motion Picture Score by Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave. In celebration of the iconic Horror film's 45th Anniversary, this special triple LP features the complete score sourced from the original 1979 master tapes for the first time in any format, a full LP of never-before released cues from the Phantasm score recordings sessions, and the newly re-mastered original 1979 score album.

Directed by Don Coscarelli, Phantasm has become a horror classic due to its surreal and unconventional storytelling. Filming on weekends over the span of a year, and working with a budget of only $300,000, Coscarelli and his crew created a bizarre, gorey, and entirely original horror film. Some of the most famous aspects of the film, like the floating silver orb, come directly from Coscarelli’s dreams, which give the film an even more ethereal feel.

Composers Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave were inspired by the horror scores of Goblin (Suspiria) and Mike Oldfield (The Exorcist) to create the haunting sounds of Phantasm. Myrow and Seagrave were working with synthesizers in the early days of the instrument. Says Coscarelli, “The synthesizers we used back then were so primitive that you couldn't repeat something; you would program the synthesizer, which means setting all of these dials to create a sound, and you went back and tried to get it again, and forget it - it was impossible.”

"I recently received notice that our long-term film storage vault in the basement of the historic Howard Hughes Headquarters building on the corner of Romaine and Sycamore in Hollywood was being permanently closed. During the process of moving out our negative materials, I came across the original three reels of Ampex 456 analog tape used in the Phantasm score recording sessions. Listening now to the score, including the outtake tracks, I am impressed with how inventive and adventurous Fred and Malcolm were in their approach to scoring Phantasm."

TRACKLIST

1. Welcome To Morningside
2. Into The Mausoleum
3. Tommy's Funeral
4. Lifting The Casket
5. To The Fortuneteller
6. Inside The Fortuneteller's Den
7. Don't Fear
8. Silver Sphere Disco
9. It Wasn't Any Gopher
10. Jody In The Graveyard
11. Main Street
12. Garage
13. Phantasm Theme
14. Basement Surprise
15. I Believe You
16. Cuda' Chase
17. Tommy Dead Again
18. Reggie In The Mausoleum
19. Jody's Dream
20. Ice Cream Truck
21. Running Home
22. Hearse Explosion
23. Singer's Creek
24. We'll Figure It Out When We Get There
25. Telepathy Take 1
26. Mike Chases Jody On The Dirtbike Take 1
27. Mike Chases Jody On The Dirtbike Take 2
28. Main Street Take 1
29. Mike To Palmist Take 1
30. Jody Chases Michael Take 1
31. The Tall Man Chases Mike Take 1
32. Michael Goes To Morningside Take 1
33. Car Chase Take 1
34. Spacegate Take 1
35. Atmosphere - Slumber Room
36. Michael's Dwarfs
37. Michael In Bushes Take 1
38. Reg Meets Purple Take 1
39. Jody Looks For Parents - Jody's Parent's Crypt
40. Driverless Cuda' Take 1
41. X-Palmist Take 1 - Silver Sphere
42. Bug Fight Take 1
43. Bug Fight Take 2
44. Antique Store
45. Slumber Room (Transformation)
46. Jody Goes To Morningside Take 1
47. Jody Goes To Morningside Take 2
48. Mike To Window Take 1
49. Main Title
50. Welcome To Morningside - Hand In Box
51. Mineshift Chase
52. Phantasmagoria - Silver Sphere Disco
53. Hearse Inferno

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