The soundtrack, A Nightmare on Elm Street was released in 1984. The movie was an overall success grossing almost $500 million worldwide. It was so much of a success that they released 6 more movies after. The soundtrack is about 47 minutes long including 34 songs to it. As for a genre, it should be placed in the Witch House category. It started with ‘Prologue (a nightmare on Elm Street) and ended with ‘Morning After.’ About half of the songs are by Charles Bernstein and the other half are by Robert Englund.
A couple of years after the horror music, Charles took a break and returned in 2012 by creating the ‘Charlotta-ts’ soundtrack, which also happens to be his last piece…
Immediately when I pressed play on the soundtrack, it made me travel back to a couple of years ago when I first watched the film. The nostalgic sounds appeared straight into the first track and didn’t stop until the end. Even though there were no lyrics to any of these songs I could almost feel how intense the scenes were. Some of the instruments Charles Bernstein used were bass, synths, guitar, and violin.
I would rate these songs as well as the soundtrack an overall 6/10 rating. It was not my favorite but I do believe if some songs had lyrics to them they could have been good. Track 7, ‘Run Nancy’ would be a good example of this. Hearing these sound effects to most of the songs made me have the Halloween spirit all over again.
