The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American horror film written, directed, and edited by Wes Craven. Composer Don Peake has recently revisited his score and this vinyl release presents the newly discovered and remastered original tapes from the film. It follows the Carters, a suburban family targeted by a family of cannibal savages after becoming stranded in the Nevada desert. Made for only $230,000, the film has spawned may sequels and remakes and has gone on to become a cult classic.

He remembers his work on the score and how this remarkable soundtrack was created:

"I was immediately struck with the brutality of the characters, and I decided to create a sparse, and disturbing score utilizing both acoustic instruments and a few experimental electronic instruments. I used "The Blaster Beam" - a long aluminium channel (About 10 feet) strung with a single wire. The Player (Craig Huxley) would slide a piece of steel up the wire string creating a long Glissando. I also had the prop master deliver the bone necklaces that the actors wore in the movie to the scoring stage. I used these bones as shakers for the chase scenes. The percussionists each had a necklace to play.

We recorded all the music "Live" with absolutely no overdubs. The tapes had been lost for many years. I just recently came upon them in my storage. I had my friend Ron Hitchcock "bake" the tapes for 10 hours, and then transferred them into the Pro Tools digital format. This is the very first time that this music has been available to listen to."

Pressed on classic black 140g vinyl with gatefold sleeve.

1: Opening Credits
2: Stay On the Main Roads/Truck Explosion/Here They Come/Mutants Watch/Pretty Girl/Spider
3: Bobby Runs After Beauty the Dog/Bobby Runs Back Down the Hill
4: Oil Can Spout/Old Man Tells Story/Mutant Attacks Big Bob
5: Bobby Hears a Noise/Nailingbig Bob to a Tree/Bobby Runs/Mutant Enters the RV
6: Explosive Diversion/Big Bob's Burned Corpse
7: Stealing the Baby/Lynne Is Shot/RV Fight/Finding the Walkie-talkie
8: Dog Scare/Running Back Up the Hill/Finding the Camp/Mutants Run to RV/Ruby Steals the Baby
9: Ruby Runs With Baby/The Rabbit/Brenda Sees Mutant/Dead Mom Decoy
10: Gas Trap/The RV Explodes/Chasing the Baby/Rock Fight/The Rattlesnake
11: End Credits
12: Bobby Runs Back Down the Hill
13: Bobby Runs
14: Lynne Is Shot/RV Fight
15: Chasing the Baby/Rock Fight
16: Dog Scare/Running Back Up the Hill
17: Wild Synth Wind
18: Wild Axe Hits
19: Percussion Suite 1
20: Percussion Suite 2

Composer: Don Peake

Number of Discs: 1

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