While enjoying your resultant candy haul (which, if you want to be clever, you can separate into seven different categories and then eat by following the score to Plus-Minus), fire up the video-on-demand and take in The Mephisto Waltz, a 1971 bit of devilish goofiness (from the director of Gidget!) featuring Curt Jürgens as a dying concert pianist who becomes very interested in Alan Alda's hands.
(The score is by Jerry Goldsmith, getting a nice avant-garde warm-up for his music for The Omen series.)
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Fixed that for you.
The Stockhausen mask looks like one of those "Village of the Damned" kids who grew up rather than got blown up by George Sanders. And though I adore Jerry Goldsmith, his "Omen" soundtrack gives me the "Carmina Burana" giggles.
Dan: Oddly effective, which is, of course, the best kind of effective.
sfmike: Actually, it's the third "Omen" movie, by far the worst one, that I think has the best score. Goldsmith was one of those composers who seemingly had a sixth sense for knowing when a film was in so much trouble that the producers would simply not have time to notice that the score was an under-the-radar avant-garde provocation. (See also: Escape From the Planet of the Apes.)
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