OMG! The soundtrack is UNREAL! I HEAR COBERT!
Again, the titles give away plot stuff, but it's worth it to hear the music...
I am just
totally amazed at how much of Cobert's style was incorporated in Elfman's score. I had been fearing that we'd end up with something light and fanciful, but this is
dark! I love it!
The later stuff in the score seems to sound almost like a blend of Cobert and John Williams, if you can imagine such a combination. Hearing this music really gives me much more hope for how the finished movie will turn out. Tim Burton had been saying all along that he wanted to get the tone of the film right. From the trailers we saw that the production design was right, and now with the score we see that musically they really nailed it. I think the comedy we see in the trailer will play very differently in the context of the full scenes, and with Elfman's score. The images from the trailer, and Elfman's music, suggest to me something in between the drama of the original and 1991 series, and the horrific intensity of HODS. It's not light and fluffy, but dark and heavy. (That brings me to my big problem with the marketing of the movie: unless the movie turns out to be very different from what I'm thinking it's going to be like, the poster image is just way off. The riot of color is
so at odds with the title "
Dark Shadows"...)
It's interesting that we don't hear the DS main title theme in any of these clips. But these sound like only snippets (and maybe not even all of the tracks), so who knows. It's possible that the old theme will be used over the end credits. Even if it isn't, I won't be disappointed, since to me it's the dramatic scoring that is "Dark Shadows" to me, not the main title theme. However, I am disappointed that I didn't hear anything from my absolute favorite DS music, Jekyll and Hyde "Cue #2". That was Dan Curtis' favorite piece, and something he wanted Cobert to include in all of his scores. (It's called "A Darkness at Collinwood" on the first DS soundtrack album. That piece, more than anything else, says "Dark Shadows" to me.)