![]() ![]() This theme weaves its nervous string rhythms subtly through many tracks. In "The Dolphin Hotel", the score delights in haunted violin solos with plucking harp and mandolin strings. From the very opening Bernard Herrmann-esque horn drone of "10 Haunted Hotels", the score announces itself as an unrepentantly old-fashion score with old fashion scares. This is another type of musical pastiche opposed to the current horror trends of atonal musical stings and general noisiness (I can\'t make myself sound more like an old man if I tried). Likewise, this score is a delightful surprise. The movie has become a surprise horror hit of the summer, catching people off guard in a time of retro-seventies/eighties shock gore horror pastiches. I\'m surprised it doesn\'t take place in Maine also. ![]() It has a writer protagonist, a past family tragedy and the creepy use of a benign 70\'s pop hit. Wasn\'t expecting that.ġ408 is the definition of a Stephen King story. ![]() But then after that, he goes and does an old fashion psychological ghost story. Sure, doing a foreign drama like The Lives of Others sounds like a very Gabriel Yared type of thing to do. I said flippantly in a previous review that you never know what Gabriel Yared does next. ![]()
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