During the scene where Marquis de Sade is beating Sarah there is a baroque-esque song playing in the background. Is this an original song by Roger Bellon or is it a classical piece? If its a classical piece does anyone know the name of it? i'd like to get ahold of it. I don't think a soundtrack for this movie was ever released so, let me know if you have any info.
I can't be of any help, but I would like to know that, too.
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It is original score by Roger Bellon, which sadly was never released on a soundtrack. There is currently a petition for wanting one to finally be released on CD. Go here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/waxsound/petition.html
"You're making me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." (Eric Bana as Bruce Banner - "Hulk")
Thank you for the information. Had I paid closer attention when I read over the main page of your fansite, I would have already known that.
I'm going to sign the petition. :)
It was pretty strange when they used music from Swan Lake in the mummy scene, nice though. I wonder why they chose to do that rather than use an original piece.
Actually a lot of the music was quite unusual in the context, it would have been jarring if it wasn't so fun. Parts of the main theme sounded a lot like Danny Elfman's score for Batman, which was released the year after, I suppose that's just coincidence.
I realize this is a very old comment I'm replying to, but in case you still don't have an answer: they used Swan Lake in the mummy scene because Swan Lake is used in the opening credits of the 1932 version of The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff. The same piece was used in a number of Universal horror movies of the early "talkie" era, including the 1931 version of Dracula.
shareI'd love this score to be released. It's one of those 80's horror gems that has never surfaced in any format, like Colin Towns' epic score for RAWHEAD REX from 1986. Shame giant, full-blooded symphonic scores are almost completely gone from the horror genre these days.
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