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This playlist follows Derry’s split between sunlit childhood and the rot beneath it: eerie scores evoke the sewers, Pennywise’s shifting menace, and the town’s uncanny pull, while songs trace the Losers’ loyalty, fear, and return as adults. Its mix of vintage pop, punk, rock, and dark electronics nods to the novel’s mid-century childhood memories and 1980s present without letting the tension stay at one pitch.
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20 songs
1
Halloween Theme - Main Title
John Carpenter · Halloween Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield · Time To Have Peaceful
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In the House - In a Heartbeat
John Murphy · In the House - In a Heartbeat
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Theme of Laura
Akira Yamaoka · SILENT HILL2 （Original Soundtrack）
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Come to Freddy / Main Title
Charles Bernstein · A Nightmare on Elm Street 35th Anniversary (Selections from Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street)
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Totentanz, S. 126
Franz Liszt · The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 7
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Funeral March of a Marionette
Charles Gounod · Classics From The Crypt
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Night on the Bare Mountain
Sergei Prokofiev · Russian Spectacular
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Chinatown
Jerry Goldsmith · Sax And Violence (Music From The Dark Side Of The Screen)
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Vampire Killer
Yoann Laulan · Dead Cells Return To Castlevania
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Somebody's Watching Me
Rockwell · Somebody's Watching Me
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Psycho Killer
Talking Heads · Talking Heads '77
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13
The Kids Are Alright
The Who · My Generation (50th Anniversary / Super Deluxe)
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14
Cherry Bomb
The Runaways · The Runaways
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My Body Is a Cage
Arcade Fire · Neon Bible
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Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival · Green River (Expanded Edition)
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(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Blue Öyster Cult · Agents Of Fortune
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18
The Monster Mash
Bobby "Boris" Pickett · The Monster Mash
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Eurythmics · Greatest Hits
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