Rob Zombie Hates That Movie Scores Aren’t Catchy Anymore
Rob Zombie remembers the first time he saw Jaws. It was in 1975. He was a child at the time, probably in fourth grade by his recollections. “There wasn’t anything scary happening,” he remembers. Yet Jaws became a legend of the horror genre it was, in a large part, thanks to the music. “John Williams was really the master of making…those notes, become a tangible thing,” Zombie says. “You hear the music and there’s a shark even though there is visually no shark in the frame.”
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“Nothing can stir your brain like a piece of music,” says Zombie. “It can be a piece of music you haven’t heard in 40 years and then someone plays it and all of a sudden you’re transported back to your childhood. You can remember specific, tiny things.”
Zombie laments the lack of big screen earworms in today’s hot films. “You can take a blockbuster movie, like The Dark Knight or Iron Man. Hum me the score,” he commands.
I’m stumped. “Superfans probably can, but the average person couldn’t hum you the score to most popular movies,” he concludes.
“I think that now because of digital technology and whatnot, people are so visually oriented,” says Zombie. “They’re cluttering the frame with so much insanity at all times that they forget that it can be simple.”
