It’s still Halloween for a few more hours in some time zones so it’s not too late to post this!

Henry Manfredini
Introduction To Horror
Excerpts In Terror
Moments Of Madness
It turns out that Friday The 13th soundtracks are weird.

While the original Friday The 13th was an immediate sensation the moment it was first released in 1980, at the time the film’s original score (in many ways the best thing about the movie) did not receive an official release. Neither did the score for the 1981 sequel.

It wasn’t until the release of the third movie in 1982 (man, they really banged these suckers out back then) that the film’s iconic score got a release. But that release wasn’t the score for the third film, instead it was a strange compilation that featured the opening credits theme for the first film (which is a disco number) followed by three cuts that combine highlights of the scores from the previous films and the new one.

In 2012, when La La Land Records began releasing the Friday The 13th scores on CD, they glossed over this release and instead gave the third album a proper soundtrack release. That album does include the opening title credits music, so I’m not including that one here. However, it does forgo these strange “greatest hits” cuts, so I thought I’d share them tonight.

Happy Halloween!

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