Ranking Every John Carpenter Theme Worst To Best

16. Body Bags (1993)

This composition is essentially John Carpenter in the great tradition. So why, you ask, is it at the bottom of the list? The reason is this: if its intention was to unnerve the audience, then that intention goes horribly self-destruct after the first 50 seconds.

A relatively suspenseful electronic build-up gives way suddenly and inexplicably to a boogie rock section that, even with some added subtle eerie lead, contains more cheese than is humanly palatable for a singular horror music theme.

That's not to say that it isn't fun, as is the enjoyably daft collective that is the Body Bags TV movie. Just remember John Carpenter's role in the movie as proof of this. Still, creating a theme that devolves from a nicely sinister opening to suddenly sounding like Hulk Hogan's just burst into your front room is a little beneath Carpenter's capabilities as a musician.

It's the first example on this list which validates the theory that the scarier nuances of his theme music did not always carry over very when into the 90s.