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Filmtracks Recommends:
Buy it... if you want just a small taste of the best cues from the first two scores in the Scream franchise. Avoid it... if you seek any of the Danny Elfman or Hans Zimmer music heard in Scream 2, or if you expect a well-rounded presentation of either score. Filmtracks Editorial Review:
The most intriguing cue in Scream is the only one that appeared on either of the two commercial albums for the first two films. In "Trouble in Woodsboro," Beltrami unleashes the ruckus of a wild rock and techno-based rhythm with various chain-rattling sound effects and a synthetic choir for the ultimate in eerie sound. The remaining two cues from that score feature the stock horror elements. In Scream 2, Beltrami would pull more ideas from Goldenthal's sophisticated palette as the franchise would become more robust in its orchestral prowess. The lovely theme for Syd would largely be confined to the "It's Over, Sid" cue, the most harmonic presentation of the theme on this album. While Beltrami would maintain this theme and certain motifs throughout all three of his scores for the franchise, the ideas for the Deputy Dewey character are perhaps the most recognizable from Scream 2, and the most maligned. The spaghetti Western style from the days of Morricone's dusty classics are in full force in Scream 2, and their bass and guitar antics culminate in some synthetic whistling in "Dewpoint and Stabbed" and a powerful rendition in "Sundown Search." The opening moments of the "Deputy for a Friend" cue would be reprised at the outset of the victorious performance of Syd's theme at the end of Scream 3. Unfortunately for Beltrami, the most memorable music from Scream 2 wouldn't be his. Danny Elfman would compose a frenzied, choral-enhanced three minutes called "Cassandra Aria" for the film, a piece still unreleased on CD ten years later. And much of the music for Dewey would be replaced in Scream 2 by Duane Eddy's guitar performances for Hans Zimmer's Broken Arrow, a replacement generally considered effective in the film. On album, the Scream and Scream 2 scores would finally be released by Varèse Sarabande in 1998, but with only 12 minutes from Scream and 17 minutes from Scream 2. As such, it was one of the label's more controversial capitulations to the fees of the musicians' unions. Without Elfman's piece, the album is dissatisfying, and compared to the 30 minutes eventually available from the label for Scream 3, this duo album is only barely adequate.
Scores as Heard on Album: ** Overall: **
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