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Halloween CD

Okay, so I'm trying to make a CD for Halloween comprised of horror movie themes and things of that nature. This should be cool, it gives me something to listen to on the bus to work, and it might be sort of fun to see if any heads turn when the screeching of violins indicating Marion Crane's murder get any looks when it bleeds through my shitty headphones.

Problem is, I'm well over the limit for a single CD on my iTunes playlist. I'm sitting right at 2 hours. And there's really no point in making two 60-minute discs when each one will hold an extra twenty minutes of music, right?

So, I need to find about 40 minutes worth of horror/Halloween music. The only real self-imposed stipulations I have are that I'd like them to come from horror movies (though I have a few tunes from video games), i.e. I don't want to add any lame-ass cliched stuff like The Monster Mash. I'm mostly looking for theme music and things like that, but I'm having some difficulty (for the three of you who read this blog, this ties into one I wrote a month or so ago), because it seems like no newer horror movies have good scores like they used to. I want to make a few discs of music that is primarily associated with particular horror movies, not just pop songs that might happen to have some occult edge to them. In other words, I don't have a fever, so I have no need for a prescription.

Here's what I have so far...

- "Psycho" suite - Bernard Herrmann (from "Psycho")
- "Science Fiction/Double Feature" - Richard O'Brien (from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show")
- "Tales from the Crypt" - Danny Elfman
- "End of Small Sanctuary" - Akira Yamaoka (from "Silent Hill")
- "Helen's Theme" - Phillip Glass (from "Candyman")
- "A Nightmare on Elm Street" - Charles Bernstein
- "Tubular Bells" - Mike Oldfield (from "The Exorcist")
- "Over at the Frankenstein Place" - Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, and Richard O'Brien (from "RHPS")
- "Halloween" - John Carpenter
- "Funeral March of a Marionette" - Arthur Fielder (from "Alfred Hitchcock Presents")
- "I'm Not Edible" - Chris Vrenna (from "American McGee's Alice")
- "Hellraiser" - Christopher Young
- "Dance with Night Wind" - Akira Yamaoka (from "Silent Hill")
- "This is Halloween" - Danny Elfman (from "The Nightmare Before Christmas")
- "Sleepy Hollow" - Danny Elfman
- "Suspiria" - Goblin
- "Friday the 13th" - Harry Manfredini
- "Alien" - Jerry Goldsmith
- "The Fog" - John Carpenter
- "Theme of Laura" - Akira Yamaoka (from "Silent Hill")
- "The Tunnel" - John Murphy (from "28 Days Later)
- "Resident Evil" - Marilyn Manson
- "The Shining" - Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind
- "Poltergeist" - Jerry Goldsmith
- "The X-Files" - Mark Snow
- "It Was Always You, Helen" - Phillip Glass (from "Candyman")
- "Rose Tint My World" - from RHPS
- "An Ending (Ascent)" - Brian Eno (from "28 Days Later")
- "Song to the Siren" - This Mortal Coil (from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

For the record, that's not the final arrangement, either. I'm still toying with it so that it creates a cohesive album and not just a bunch of random songs.

Any suggestions for things I might have missed? Like I said, I've got like 40 minutes to fill. A friend of mine suggested that Nick Cave song that plays constantly throughout all three "Scream" movies, and while I'd rather keep it to music that was created specifically for a film, I suppose I could make an exception, since the only thing that song makes me think of is Sidney Prescott walking around her Nondescript Midwestern College Campus looking all cute.

Help me out!