Damn That Score!


Kevin Williamson wrote Scream, Scream 2, and The Faculty, and made contributions to the script for Halloween H20. Each were also scored by composer Marco Beltrami. Unfortunately, Beltrami did not create separate scores for each movie. He seems to have just remixed the same one for all four! There are three different directors between the four films and both Williamson and Beltrami have done plenty of work without the other (as though one or both of them were contractually bound to one another or something).

I find this "coincidence" incredibly annoying because I LOVED the score in the original Scream, but three movies later, I was well beyond sick of it! It's hard to enjoy those three latter movies now because it feels as though they just ripped off Scream. Anyone out there know the story?

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That's pretty funny. It's funnier that I never noticed.



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It's common practice in movies to "temp" the score, where it's based off of other pieces of music, sometimes very (very) closely, because the composer was directed to do so.

Sometimes temp scores are a home run. The score for Star Wars: A New Hope? Yup. It was temped. Listen to "The Planets" by Gustav Holst, written in 1914... Now listen to the Star Wars score... Crazy huh?

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The problem with the scream 2 soundtrack was that they ran out of time. The production was so tight that he only partially finished the score and ended up using existing pieces from previous movies. Most of the lifted score is actually from Broken Arrow.

The H20 score was actually written by John Ottoman, but the Weinsteins felt the music from Scream was stronger and insisted on a couple of switch ups that are very very distracting to people familiar with scream. As for the faculty, I think there's only one instant of the scream soundtrack making it into the movie which is interrupted when the teacher pulls the earbuds out of a students ears.


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It was more annoying in Halloween H20 I felt. But yes very annoying and very lazy I might add

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