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Red Dragon Playlist
A shifting soundscape for Thomas Harris’s 1981 American crime-horror novel: uneasy strings, stark score cues, and measured pulses evoke Graham’s return to profiling, the Tooth Fairy’s menace, and the bleak spaces of the investigation. The vocal half moves between murder-ballad dread and haunted intimacy, touching on Graham’s psychological strain and Lecter’s cultivated, predatory allure, with the shadow of Blake’s Red Dragon hanging over it all.
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20 songs
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Scene D'Amour
Bernard Herrmann · Vertigo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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A Witch Stole Sam
Mark Korven · The Witch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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What Have We Done to Each Other?
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross · Gone Girl (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
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Detroit
Disasterpeace · It Follows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Audrey's Dance
Angelo Badalamenti · Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)
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Halloween Theme - Main Title
John Carpenter · Halloween Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Rubber Head
Cliff Martinez · Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, BB 114: III. Adagio
Béla Bartók · 55 Classical Soundtracks
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Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
Aram Khachaturian · Khachaturian Orchestral Music
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The Red Pony: I. Morning on the Ranch
Aaron Copland · Copland: The Red Pony & Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
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Black River Killer
Blitzen Trapper · Furr
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Frankie Teardrop
Suicide · Attempted: Live at Max's Kansas City, 1980
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Delia's Gone
Johnny Cash · American Recordings
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Every Day Is Halloween
Ministry · Early Trax
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath · The Ultimate Collection
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Midnight, The Stars and You
Al Bowlly · The Shining - The Complete British Dance Band Soundtrack
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Me and the Devil
Soap&Skin · Sugarbread
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Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
Concrete Blonde · Bloodletting
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(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Blue Öyster Cult · Agents Of Fortune
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