10 Horror Movie Soundtracks You Need To Listen To

Another horror classic from John Carpenter, The Thing is the grizzly body horror spectacular that sees a group of researchers face-off against a shape-shifting creature in the Arctic as it picks them off one by one.

Unlike Halloween, the music was created by none other than prolific, Oscar-winning composer extraordinaire Ennio Morricone. The musical genius behind the likes of The Mission, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, and Cinema Paradiso (just to name a tiny sample), having Morricone attached to a project is a sign of musical perfection.

A collaboration between the Italian composer and filmmaker John Carpenter, Morricone's sublime orchestrations for The Thing are just as beautiful as they are atmospheric.

After Carpenter met with the composer in Rome, the story goes that Morricone composed a series of orchestral and synth works (one would become the film's main theme) before recording began. However, after the film was edited, Carpenter noted that some of Morricone's music just didn't fit, resulting in him filling in the gaps.

Thankfully, Morricone's full score is now available for our listening pleasure, with some of the unused work being used in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, which won Morricone his only Oscar to date.