Horror Night Movie Full Video Songs Download
Gifford Brickley
So if you're unaware of what Universal's Halloween Horror Nights (HHN) is, in summary, a huge Halloween event an Universal Studios Florida featuring a lot of walk through houses either originally created or based on well known horror IPs. Never been but its on my bucket list for sure. I have a huge fascination with the event and it's history.
Hey Guys, this is just a general question for all HHN events. Do you know where HHN gets their music from. For example that one maze Hollywood had that one year where it was all dubstep. If you guys know any artists or songs, that would be great. I usually do a mini HHN during Halloween at my house so I'm looking for music to start building up my library to DJ.
Midnight Syndicate: Music of Halloween Horror Nights was a limited-edition album originally pressed on 500 red vinyl and released by Universal and Midnight Syndicate in 2020. The album featured music by Midnight Syndicate that had been used in or made for Halloween Horror Nights since 1999. The vinyl was released August 27th, 2020, and was sold exclusively at the Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store (though they also did phone orders for a brief amount of time) and sold out in less than a day. Each vinyl included a code that could be used to download a digital version. The album's packaging included liner notes written by T.J. Mannarino. The cover art and graphic design were created by Luis Orazi.
A third and final version pressed on a picture disc featuring Jack was released on October 6th, 2021. This version featured two new tracks, the removal of one track ("In the Forest Deep"), and a digital download that contained three bonus tracks not available on any previous version. The packaging was designed by Luis Orazi. On October 6th, Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka of Midnight Syndicate, Luis Orazi, and Jose Pardo held two signings at the Five and Dime Store. This marked Midnight Syndicate's first public appearance at Halloween Horror Nights.
Halloween Horror Nights has become the world's most anticipated "Haunt industry" event... and Midnight Syndicate has been there from the beginning. Fans will recognize these eerie themes that appeared on the award-winning HHN website. The themes were omnipresent in detailed haunted mazes, elaborate "scarezones," and creep entry and exits of the Universal Orlando Parks.
"It is difficult to overemphasize how much the music of Midnight Syndicate played in the historic success of Halloween Horror Nights. Our Art & Design team drew inspiration from various tracks from many of their albums as we envisioned, created and produced early websites, attractions, scarezones and haunted houses. Those same sounds wafted through the event itself and embedded in the powerful sound systems employed throughout Universal parks. Proof of the invaluable contribution is evident in this compilation of memorable cuts."
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 independent[6][7] musical comedy horror film produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay was written by Sharman and actor Richard O'Brien, who is also a member of the cast. The film is based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, with music, book, and lyrics by O'Brien. The production is a tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s. Along with O'Brien, the film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick and is narrated by Charles Gray, with cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre, and Belasco Theatre productions, including Nell Campbell and Patricia Quinn.
The film was shot in the United Kingdom at Bray Studios and on location at an old country estate named Oakley Court, best known for its earlier use by Hammer Film Productions. A number of props and set pieces were reused from the Hammer horror films. Although the film is both a parody of and tribute to many kitsch science fiction and horror films, costume designer Sue Blane conducted no research for her designs. Blane has claimed that her creations for the film directly affected the development of punk rock fashion trends, such as torn fishnet stockings and colourfully dyed hair.[8]
Initial reception was extremely negative, but it soon became a hit as a midnight movie, when audiences began participating with the film at the Waverly Theater in New York City in 1976. Audience members returned to the cinemas frequently and talked back to the screen and began dressing as the characters, spawning similar performance groups across the United States. At almost the same time, fans in costume at the King's Court Theater in Pittsburgh began performing alongside the film. This "shadow cast" mimed the actions on screen above and behind them, while lip-synching their characters' lines.
In November 1974, following the wedding of their friends, a naïve young couple, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, get engaged and decide to celebrate with their high school science teacher Dr. Scott, who taught the class where they first met ("Dammit Janet"). En route to Scott's house on a dark and rainy night, they get lost with a flat tire. Seeking a telephone to call for help, the couple walks to a nearby castle ("Over at the Frankenstein Place") where a party is being held. They are accepted in by the strangely dressed inhabitants, led by the butler Riff Raff, the maid Magenta, and a groupie named Columbia, who dance to "The Time Warp". Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite mad scientist, introduces himself and invites them to stay for the night ("Sweet Transvestite").
Richard O'Brien was living as an unemployed actor in London during the early 1970s. He wrote most of The Rocky Horror Show during one winter just to occupy himself.[10][11] Since his youth, O'Brien had loved science fiction and B horror movies. He wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle flicks, and fifties rock and roll into his musical.[12] O'Brien conceived and wrote the play set against the backdrop of the glam era that had manifested itself in British popular culture in the 1970s.[13] Allowing his concept to come into being, O'Brien states "glam rock allowed me to be myself more".[14]
The film is both a parody and tribute to many of the science fiction and horror movies from the 1930s up to the 1970s.[10] The film production retains many aspects from the stage version, such as production design and music, but adds new scenes not featured in the original stage play.[15] The film's plot, setting, and style echo those of the Hammer horror films, which had their own instantly recognizable style (just as Universal Studios' horror films did).[26] The originally proposed opening sequence was to contain clips of various films mentioned in the lyrics, as well as the first few sequences shot in black and white, but this was deemed too expensive and scrapped.[15]
The film starts with the screen fading to black and oversized, disembodied female lips appear overdubbed with a male voice,[29][33] establishing the theme of androgyny to be repeated as the film unfolds.[34] The opening scene and song, "Science Fiction/Double Feature", consists of the lips of Patricia Quinn (who appears in the film later as the character Magenta and as 'Trixie the Usherette' in the original London production, where she also sings the song) but has the vocals of actor and Rocky Horror creator, Richard O'Brien (who appears as Magenta's brother Riff Raff). The lyrics refer to science fiction and horror films of the past and list several film titles from the 1930s to the 1960s, including The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Flash Gordon (1936), The Invisible Man (1933), King Kong (1933), It Came from Outer Space (1953), Doctor X (1932), Forbidden Planet (1956), Tarantula (1955), The Day of the Triffids (1962), Curse of the Demon (1957), and When Worlds Collide (1951).[10]
The film opened in the United Kingdom at the Rialto Theatre in London on 14 August 1975 and in the United States on 26 September at the UA Westwood in Los Angeles.[39][40] It did well at that location, but not elsewhere.[41] Before the midnight screenings' success, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York City opening on Halloween night was cancelled.[42] Fox re-released the film around college campuses on a double-bill with another rock music film parody, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974), but again it drew small audiences.[42]
With Pink Flamingos (1972) and Reefer Madness (1936) making money in midnight showings nationwide, a Fox executive, Tim Deegan, was able to talk distributors into midnight screenings,[34] starting in New York City on April Fools' Day of 1976.[42] It was the "Secret" film, on 20 May, in the first Seattle International Film Festival.[44] The cult following started shortly after the film began its midnight run at the Waverly Theater in New York City,[41] then spread to other counties in New York, and to Uniondale, Long Island. Rocky Horror was not only found in the larger cities but throughout the United States, where many attendees would get in free if they arrived in costume. The western division of the film's release included the U.A. Cinemas in Fresno and Merced, the Cinema J. in Sacramento, the UC Theatre in Berkeley and the Covell in Modesto. In New Orleans, an early organised performance group was active with the release there, as well as in such cities as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Chicago (at the Biograph Theater). Before long, nearly every screening of the film was accompanied by a live fan cast.[45]
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is considered to be the longest-running release in film history.[5][46] It benefited from a 20th Century Fox policy that made archival films available to theatres at any time.[47] Having never been pulled by 20th Century Fox from its original 1975 release, it continues to play in cinemas.[48][49] After The Walt Disney Company acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019 and began withdrawing archival Fox movies from theatres to be placed into the Disney Vault, the company made an exception in the case of The Rocky Horror Picture Show to allow the traditional midnight screenings to continue.[47][50]
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