The Greatest Horror Soundtracks

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If you want to set a scary mood at your Halloween party, but you want to avoid rock and roll or lame party songs, you can’t go wrong with this:  “Rolling Stone” assembled a panel of experts to come up with the 35 Greatest Horror Soundtracks.  Here’s the Top 10:

1. “Halloween”, 1978

2. “Halloween 3: Season of the Witch”, 1982

3. “Candyman”, 1992

4. “Suspiria”, 1977  (“Rolling Stone” says 1975. )

5. “Cannibal Holocaust”, 1980

6. “The Thing”, 1982

7. “Nosferatu the Vampyre”, 1979

8. “The Omen”, 1976

9. “Rosemary’s Baby”, 1968

10. “The Shining”, 1980

(Rolling Stone)