Charles Bernstein

Wow.

No, Charles Bernstein is the composer of the theme, which is my mind blow if you want to hear just the original of what it sounded like.

But it was originally, they thought this was going to be on Nightmare on Elm Street 4.

Wow.

They were going to use it on the soundtrack, then they didn't, and then they went and sued them.

Oh, jeez.

Yeah, so this guy, Charles Bernstein, let's hear the original or what the sample is.

I mean, if you've seen any of the Nightmares.

It's this fucking crazy dude making these damn finger knives.

And, uh, and the score on top of that by Charles Bernstein with him like making those, with the video of him like making the, the glove is just so iconic.

Right there it just kicks you in.

It's like at this point in time I see it and I get like freaking like goosebumps at like excitement.

Yeah.

So Charles Bernstein's theme, um, which was so masterfully used by DJ Jazzy Jeff in the, uh, Fresh Prince track, is 12 really haunting notes that kind of play every time we see Freddy.

They're also interspersed with the, uh, the limerick of the one, two, Freddy's coming for you; three, four, better lock the door, and so on, that we hear throughout the series.

But this is a really, it's a really haunting score.

It's the only movie in the series that Charles Bernstein worked on, that I, I believe.

And it is just kind of cool because he w- he was often, like, considered to be using, like, all, like, top of the line kind of new instrument stuff.

But in actuality, he was kind of somewhere between John Carpenter and, uh, and John Williams when it came to how much synth versus how much actual classical composition he was using.

You have Charles Flesher, who has one of the more uncomfortable convention meets that I've ever been present for with Hot Toddy.

Lynn Shea also in a small role there, and we have a score from Charles Bernstein.

How old were you guys when you first saw this?

I was probably 10 or older.

And it's one of King's favourite adaptations of his own work, though, Steve.

so the disc itself so this one's a 4k contains the theatrical cut of the film plus an archive audio commentary with director teague a second one with teague and jeff mckay and a third with film historian lee gambin author of the making of cujo book also included on disc is a round table discussion with d wallace danny pintaro daniel hugh kelly and director teague Dog Days, the making of Cujo Archival Documentary, and 2019 interviews with Dee Wallace, composer Charles Bernstein, stuntman Gary Morgan, stuntwoman Jean Coulter, casting director Marsha Ross, visual effects artist Kathy Lawrence, special effects designer Robert Clark, and dog trainer Teresa Miller.

So it looks like one of those, I think these were on the Eureka release, to be fair.

We get a lot of the stories of the behind the scenes, which should be good.