Andrew Powell

... uh, which is, uh, infamous, shall we say, in, uh, in this, uh, movie's case.

So yeah, Andrew Powell composed the score, and it was produced by Alan Parsons, he of the Project.

Uh, Richard Donner stated he was listening to the Alan Parsons Project, on which Powell collaborated while scouting for locations, and became unable to separate his visual ideas from the music.

Uh, Powell combined traditional orchestric mu- orchestral music and Gregorian chant with contemporary progressive rock-infused material.

At the time, it was part of a trend among 1980s fantasy films of abandoning the lush orchestral scores of composers such as John Williams, James Horner, and Jerry Goldsmith in favor of a modern pop rock sound.

I can't say I've seen that, any evidence of that myself, but maybe I'm not watching enough '80s fantasy.

Um, the film soundtrack composed by Andrew Powell has met some criticism, shall we say, uh, with some saying the synthesizer-laden track is incongruous for a medieval-themed movie, uh, while others were more critical, with one reviewer calling it the cream of the crop when it comes to atrocious scores, and another saying it sounded like an exercise video that got played on top of a low-budget '80s sitcom.

[laughs] Uh, it has been placed at the top of a list of worst movie sound scores, and appears on three other lists of bad movie music.