My 2014 Halloween Countdown Goes Psycho

Here's something for your Halloween parties and it's just...  well, crazy! Dj Zyrko took Bernard Herrmann's theme music for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, along with a famous sound bite and turned it into a Halloween-appropriate dancefloor anthem. Halloween Countdown continues. Only one more week to go!

Halloween Countdown Bonus: Psycho Stab Music

This part of Bernard Herrmann's score is sooo famous and sooo imitated, duplicated & otherwise ripped off since, how could I not post it? Music, largely strings, that sounds like a knife cutting through air. Ingenious! And a new, atonal film language musically.

Halloween Countdown: Hitchcock's Psycho Theme

"Mother.... What is the phrase? She isn't quite herself today," says Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. It's not until you've seen the ending that you're in on the macabre joke.

Perhaps the most famous theme music for a horror film ever recorded, the score for "Psycho" is by the brilliant Bernard Herrmann. (An all-Herrmann-scored film festival started at New York's Film Forum, on Houston St, October 21 and continues through November 3.) Mr Herrmann created the memorable music for a variety of films including Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Jason & the Argonauts, Cape Fear and tv's Twilight Zone.

It wouldn't be Halloween without this famed theme music that has become shorthand for the weird and frightening. So, Happy Halloween, all; and here's hoping that you're yourselves today.