It's Alive (1974)
1974年影片《It's Alive》原声
The first half of the 1970s witnessed a magnificent resurgence for one of Hollywood’s legendary composers: Bernard Herrmann. Living in England, the notoriously cantankerous Herrmann—a near-pariah within the Hollywood establishment—suddenly became the darling of young directors like Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma and Larry Cohen.
Cohen wrote, produced and directed It’s Alive near the beginning of a storied career as a high-end exploitation filmmaker. Although his plans to reunite the two principal actors from Psycho for his film about a mutant killer infant came to naught (John Ryan and Sharon Farrell instead played the hapless parents), he did manage to hire the composer of the iconic score for the Hitchcock classic.
Herrmann’s score for It’s Alive represents the epitome of his succinct style. The music evolves from short, mostly conjunct motives (usually only 2–5 notes), repeated sequentially. There...
The first half of the 1970s witnessed a magnificent resurgence for one of Hollywood’s legendary composers: Bernard Herrmann. Living in England, the notoriously cantankerous Herrmann—a near-pariah within the Hollywood establishment—suddenly became the darling of young directors like Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma and Larry Cohen.
Cohen wrote, produced and directed It’s Alive near the beginning of a storied career as a high-end exploitation filmmaker. Although his plans to reunite the two principal actors from Psycho for his film about a mutant killer infant came to naught (John Ryan and Sharon Farrell instead played the hapless parents), he did manage to hire the composer of the iconic score for the Hitchcock classic.
Herrmann’s score for It’s Alive represents the epitome of his succinct style. The music evolves from short, mostly conjunct motives (usually only 2–5 notes), repeated sequentially. There...
