Brand new vinyl LP

First

Ever Official Vinyl Release

Turquoise

Vinyl

Gatefold

Sleeve

The

chilling road thriller, The Hitcher, was released in 1986 and starred Rutger

Hauer as a murderous hitchhiker in a relentless pursuit of a young motorist, C.

Thomas Howell. Critically maligned at the time, over the years the film has

built up a cult following and has spawned a sequel and a remake.

Asked by the producers to compose a copycat score

of John Williams' Jaws, composer Mark Isham bravely produced the opposite. He

steered clear from genre defining sharp orchestral motifs and stabbing dissonances,

and instead immersed himself in 80s cutting edge electronics and samples. The

result was an emotionally cold and beautiful score, an audio landscape

depicting evil and impending doom, the dust and fog of a lonely desert road.

With its industrial beats, ambient synth washes and spaced Jazzy motifs, the

score was on the forefront of a new genre in horror music scoring and ;