Happy FRIDAY THE 13TH! I give you the music from "DEAD HEAT"!

Hi everyone! Happy FRIDAY THE 13TH to all! To celebrate this glorius day, Nightchillers Rare Music brings you the RARE score of 1988's DEAD HEAT by Ernest Troost (Tremors). This is an EXCLUSIVE! These tracks originate from a digital transfer from the ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES! I just got my hands on a semi-bootleg CD of this just a few months ago. I'm presenting this to you for FREE and as a bonus I added as the last track my recording of the groovin' rock song "Dead Heat" by Phil Settle which plays over the end credits. I love this song! The lyrics are about the film, and the singing and musicianship rocks and are really a whole lotta fun - especially if you love this movie as much as I do. I wanted to keep all of the song's intro so it begins with the dialogue of partners Roger Mortis (Treat Williams) & Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo - he's comic genius in this movie) having their last conversation of the movie over the music - this is also a lot of fun! You have to see DEAD HEAT if you haven't already - it's an 80's "buddy-cop-black comedy-zombie-shoot 'em up-horror-sci-fi-action-fest" little cult masterpiece of a film. I don't want to spoil the plot or any scenes for those who have not seen it so I'll just give you this info: it was written by Terry Black (brother of Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black!), the cast also has: Darren McGavin (Kolchak: The Night Stalker, A Christmas Story), Vincent Price (one of his last roles), and Robert Picardo (The Howling, Legend, 976-Evil, Matinee, Masters of Horror, etc.), This was renowned film editor Mark Goldblatt's 1988 DIRECTORIAL DEBUT and was nominated for the Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Best Film Award in 1990!

Look at the huge list of all of Mark's editing and other achievements of some of the most awesome and biggest flicks ever made:

Film Editor: Mark Goldblatt

Case 39 (2007) (post-production) X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) Bad Boys II (2003) Bad Company (2002) Pearl Harbor (2001) Hollow Man (2000) Detroit Rock City (1999) Armageddon (1998/I) Starship Troopers (1997) Showgirls (1995) True Lies (1994) Super Mario Bros. (1993) The Last Boy Scout (1991) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Predator 2 (1990) Nightbreed (1990) ... aka Clive Barker's Nightbreed (UK: complete title) Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) Commando (1985) Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) The Terminator (1984) The Ambassador (1984) Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984) Wavelength (1983) Halloween II (1981) ... aka Halloween II: The Nightmare Isn't Over! (USA: video box title) Enter the Ninja (1981) The Howling (1981) Humanoids from the Deep (1980) Spirit of the Wind (1979) Piranha (1978) The Rock (1996) (additional editor) Tombstone (1993) (additional editor) Universal Soldier (1992) (editorial consultant) Innerspace (1987) (additional editor) Get Crazy (1983) (supervising editor)

Director: Mark Goldblatt

"Eerie, Indiana" (1 episode, 1992) - Mr. Chaney (1992) TV Episode The Punisher (1989) Dead Heat (1988) RoboCop (1987) (second unit director)

There you go folks. I'll say it again: SEE THIS MOVIE! Then have fun and listen to the music afterwards. If you see it and don't like it you probably don't understand the mix of comedy, drama, sci-fi, action & horror that it masterfully achieves - although I don't know how you wouldn't. I can also personally identify with the characters of Roger & Doug (although I'm not a cop) as two good bros in their 30's just trying to be good guys and do the right things in their lonesome bachelor lives to get by. There are a few touching moments in this movie as well if you PAY ATTENTION you Attention Deficit Disorder motherf**kers and stop answering your cell phone and getting up to go to the kitchen every 5 minutes, rustling noisy wrappers to stuff your face with yet more food.This is one of my TOP favorite movies! My good bro Aaron Clifford Beebee loves this flick too. Hunt above for the music download link and Enjoy!

Here's an AWESOME '80's website where you can find all kinds of cool reviews and stuff including one for DEAD HEAT: http://www.fast-rewind.com/

UPDATE 2-12-2009: Hey folks I just re-upped this file for download, didn't realize it was gone. So hunt for the hidden download link in this post and enjoy! HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13th!

VAMP film score from 1986

Hi everbody! I have been busy and under the weather so I finally have another treat for you. This is one of my favorite film scores to one of my old childhood favorites. I first saw Vamp in 1986 when I was staying with my older cousin in Southern California and she took me to the video store. It was also one of the many VHS rental favorites of my best friend Eric and I. We always got our hands on Rated R VHS rentals, and of course HBO always had films like this on at night. Of course we mainly rented horror, action or comedies: Vamp, the Porkys flix, Stripes, Caddyshack, Red Dawn, Losin' It, Fright Night, Fletch, Risky Business, Sixteen Candles, etc. - you get the picture. Lots of these films were ALWAYS on HBO anyway.

Vamp was always a fun one for us and how can you go wrong with best friends Keith & A.J. (Chris Makepeace & Robert Rusler), their wealthy tag-along frat-mate wannabe Duncan (Gedde Watanabe), creepy albino gang leader Snow (Billy Drago) and all the other 80's fun & mayhem under the dark veil of Grace Jones and the vampire coven.

I digitized this Vamp 1986 film score from the vinyl LP back in around 2001. I also added-in an extra bonus track from a Vampire CD collection at the end. I have since realized that Jonathan Elias is an awesome composer and I love to chill to whatever music he creates. Vamp is for kickin' back in any situation, or for visiting that fun place of an 80's adolescent and imagining being a care-free, older college guy with his best friend, and then plummeting into that creepy labyrinth of shadows, mean albinos & thirsty vampires. Hunt for the download link above & Enjoy!