You will die in agony!

Here's another share lifted from 7 Black Notes before he shut down the blog. And this gave me an excuse to post this awesome vintage caricature by cartoonist Jack Manning.... I have no earthly idea where this isolated score from "The Pit and the Pendulum" came from (it's not on the DVD), but it's a wonderful little oddity. There's some analog tape hiss on these, but overall they sound pretty good. I'm assuming these just got misnumbered because I have no track #17... and the download on Nate's blog is long gone. Here's what he had to say about it:

"A while back some rare isolated music and effects (M&E) tracks for a handful of AIP and Filmways titles fell into my hands; here's the first of those forbidden fruits for your listening pleasure: Les Baxter's freaky, atonal score for Roger Corman's Pit and the Pendulum (1961), one of the best (and scariest) Vincent Price/Edgar Allan Poe outings. Here's every note (53 minutes' worth) of Baxter's original score off the isolated track; you'll hear an odd sound effect here and there (creaking feet, closing doors), but hopefully that will just add to the ambience. Track titles are my own, assigned to give you some idea of the music's chronology."

The Pit and the Pendulum
Score by Les Baxter

01. Main Titles
02. Francis Inquires
03. Elizabeth's Tomb
04. Nicholas's Trauma
05. Music In the Night
06. Incipient Madness
07. Castle Medina
08. Nightmare
09. Dark Corridors
10. Dead End
11. Nicholas' Guilt
12. Late Wife
13. Suspicions
14. True, True!
15. Voices and Spiderwebs
16. Don Medina's Return
18. The Pit and the Pendulum
19. End Titles

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