TNB Night Owl–This is Halloween!!!

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The shadows grow a little longer tonight, and the familiar chill of October settles in. The classics return — the cold, minimal themes that still haunt the back of your mind decades later. Before monsters, before makeup, before camp — there was silence, then the music that made it impossible to sleep.

Tonight’s mix pays tribute to the masters of cinematic fear — Carpenter, Herrmann, Bernstein, Oldfield, Manfredini — the composers who built nightmares one note at a time.

Lock the doors, dim the lights, and listen for the shape that moves in the dark.

John Carpenter – Halloween Theme (Main Title):

Charles Bernstein – Nightmare on Elm Street Theme:

Harry Manfredini – Friday the 13th Theme:

Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (Theme from The Exorcist):

Bernard Herrmann – Psycho Suite:

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