The Lost Empire

Released in 1983, THE LOST EMPIRE was the feature film debut of exploitation director Jim Wynorski. A mixture of camp fantasy, corrupt villains, and chesty babes - not to mention caped ninjas and killer apes - the film is a wild and surreal action fantasy that makes the most of its resources despite the lack of a workable budget and loaded with plenty of charm and beautiful women. Wynorski had grown up in New York with aspirations of becoming a movie director, but his announced desire to ""be Roger Corman"" got him kicked out of a college film program for ""lack of aptitude"". So Wynorski moved to California in 1980 and got a job making coming attractions trailers for. Roger Corman. While working for Corman, he wrote and co-produced three exploitation movies for Corman's New World Pictures in the early 1980s, leading up to THE LOST EMPIRE, which was produced outside of Corman's company. When it came to scoring THE LOST EMPIRE, Wynorski selected composer Alan Howarth, who at the time was John Carpenter's musical associate, having worked with the director/composer to develop the scores for ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, HALLOWEEN II and III, and CHRISTINE. Howarth had just branched out to do solo work (adding some additional cues to Sam Peckinpah's THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND after the film's main composer, Lalo Schifrin, had completed his score); LOST EMPIRE would be Howarth's first feature film score on his own. THE LOST EMPIRE gave Howarth the chance to do something the minimalistic vibe of the Carpenter scores up until then hadn't, and that was to compose exciting adventurous melodies and heroic themes. Alan Howarth, in addition to being a composer, is an accomplished sound designer and editor, having worked on films such as STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, POLTERGEIST, TOTAL RECALL, ARMY OF DARKNESS, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, STARGATE and many others. He has been a frequent music collaborator with John Carpenter on his films beginning with ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK in 1980.

1: The Lost Empire
2: Stolen Gem
3: Punks at School
4: Spider
5: Jewellery Shop
6: Angel's Apartment
7: Whitestar
8: Bull Fight
9: Prison Fight
10: Induction Center
11: Airport Departure
12: Examination Room
13: Chariots of Fuego
14: Night Patrol
15: Lost Empire Reprise
16: Sin Do
17: Gladiators
18: Night Fortress
19: The Pit
20: Let's Get Them Girls
21: The Seduction
22: The Fruge
23: Meet Your Maker
24: Whitestar End Titles
25: Lost Empire Main Titles
26: Punks at School/Angel's Apartment
27: Whitestar
28: Cowboy Fight to Prison
29: Induction Center
30: Flight to Golgotha and Examination
31: Chariots of Night Patrol
32: The Gladiator
33: Seduced By Dinner
34: Arena Battle
35: Chamber of Horrors
36: Sin Do's Domain
37: Seduced By Dinner

Composer: Alan Howarth

Number of Discs: 1

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