Dragon's Domain Records proudly presents the third volume in a new ongoing series of music from classic horror films from the Golden Age, featuring two world premiere releases of music from THE GORGON and THE MANSTER.
Released in 1964, was directed by Terence Fisher (CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, HORROR OF DRACULA, THE MUMMY), written by John Gilling and J. Llewellyn Devine, starring legendary actors Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, along with Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe, Patrick Troughton, Joseph O'Conor and Prudence Hyman. THE GORGON begins in 1910, in Vandorf, a seemingly idyllic German village which is harboring a horrific secret: Seven people have died after encountering a mysterious force that turns bodies into stone. When Bruno Heitz, a bohemian artist believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself is blamed for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend, his father challenges local officials who he suspects of conspiring to hide the truth. An esteemed academic, he sends for help from his good friend Professor Meister (Lee), who is tutoring his other son Paul (Pasco). That night, the elder Heitz is drawn to Borski Castle by a strange and haunting melody, sung by a shadowy figure who appears to have writhing snakes on her head instead of hair. Staggering back to his son's studio, he desperately scribbles a note while slowly turning to stone...
Paul arrives the following day to learn that his father has also passed away, allegedly from a heart attack. His questions are rebuffed by Dr. Namaroff (Cushing), a medical doctor who also runs the local asylum, though he does find a sympathetic ear in Carla (Shelley), who is Namaroff's assistant. Later that night, Paul finds himself compelled to visit the castle. He merely gets a glimpse of a mysterious figure reflected in the garden pool before passing out and awakening five days later, only to learn that he has noticeably aged.
Professor Meister arrives to help Paul who, after exhuming his father's stone corpse, is determined to locate and kill the monster. Namaroff insists publicly that the killer is one of his escaped lunatics, but in private he confides to Carla what he truly believes, that the murderer is someone else, a person possessed by the spirit of one of the mythical Gorgon sisters who, when gazed upon, turn people to stone...
Composer James Bernard was the man responsible for creating Hammer Studio's unique sound, having begun scoring for the studio with THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT. He had commenced his music studies later in life, after completing his service during the Second World War. Following his work on X THE UNKNOWN and QUATERMASS 2, Bernard scored Hammer's first major horror film, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Each of these scores featured his trademark blend of harmonies and themes that often melodically spelled out the protagonists' names. Unlike many composers, Bernard frequently orchestrated his own scores and THE GORGON represents one of his more romantic horror efforts, undoubtedly inspired by the film's central female character.
Released in 1959, THE MANSTER was directed by George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane, written by William J. Sheldon and Breakston, starring Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Norman Van Hawley, Jerry Ito, Toyoko Takechi, Kenzo Kuroki and Alan Tarlton. THE MANSTER tells the story of Larry Stanford (Dyneley), an international journalist based inTokyo. His latest assignment sends him to an isolated laboratory located near a volcanic mountain. His efforts to interview a reclusive scientist (Nakamura)yields what he perceives to be a new friendship, but in reality Stanford has been secretly injected with an experimental serum, becoming the latest guinea pig in a mad, genetic experiment...
The doctor's beautiful assistant (Zimmern) is tasked with seducing Stanford in an attempt to observe how the drug changes his personality. He soon becomes more aggressive, ignoring help from his friend and editor Ian (Van Hawley), who has also flown Larry's wife (Hylton) in to help. Soon, the city of Tokyo finds itself in the grip of terror as several young women are brutally murdered, and a police inspector (Ito) suspects a link between Stanford and the killer. Unbeknownst to all, Larry has begun a physical transformation with the appearance of an eye on his right shoulder that grows into an animalistic head, later evolving into a second beastly body...
The music for THE MANSTER was composed by Hirooki Ogawa. The composer was born in Tokyo, Japan. Among his most notable scores were for the GEKKO KAMEN and MOONLIGHT MASK television and theatrical series in the 1950s.Some of the films featuring his scoring work has been recently released in the U.S., including WATARI THE NINJA BOY (Daininjutsu eiga Watari) and NINJA SCOPE (Tobidasu Boken Eiga: Akakage).
This third volume in Dragon's Domain Records series of classic horror films has been mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland, featuring exclusive liner notes by Starlog Magazine's David Hirsch with Sam Scali on the music featured on the album. THE GOLDEN AGE OF HORROR VOL. 3 is a limited edition release and is expected to begin shipping the week of October 28th,2025.
SPECIAL NOTE: These recordings were originally taken from analog masters and music & effects tracks and therefore certain limitations from the source tapes may be evident. We have tried to preserve as closely as possible, the quality of the original recordings.
2025/10/28の週発売
トラックリスト
THE GORGON (1964) Music by James Bernard< 01. Main Title (3:22) 02. Death in the Forest / Broken Finger / Woman of Stone / Bruno's Body / Inquest Conclusion / Village Thugs (2:33) 03. The Siren's Call /Turning to Stone (4:31) 04. Surviving Son Contemplates (2:22) 05. The Legend / Terrible Reflection (4:04) 06. Nightmare / It Was Only a Dream / Exhumation / Come Away With Me (3:35) 07. Take Me Away Now (3:01) 08. Meister Steals the File (2:33) 09. It's Too Late / It's the Full Moon / Paul Escapes / Back to the Castle (2:55) 10. She's Free & Finale (4:27) 11. The Gorgon (1964) Theatrical Trailer (2:42)
15. Tokyo Branch Office / Call From the Wife / Geisha House (2:31) 16. Saki Before Our Bath / An Evening with Tara (2:46) 17. The Girlfriend or Me/ Tara's Demands / Hand Transformation (4:05) 18. Something On His Shoulder / The Priest / Where Did You Get Those Prayer Beads? / Murderous Rampage (2:57) 19. Emiko / Eye On His Shoulder / Second Head (2:06) 20. Matthews Searches for Stanford / Manster vs. Police / Wife Discovers Manster (3:08) 21. Mansterhunt (2:00) 22. Searching Tara's House (1:16) 23. The Shipyard (2:23) 24. Suzuki Shoots Emiko (1:39) 25. Manster Stabs Suzuki / The Split / Man vs. Monster / Finale (4:11) 26. The Manster (1959) Theatrical Trailer (1:33)
黄金時代の名作ホラー映画の音楽を紹介する新シリーズの第2弾として、『妖女ゴーゴン』と『双頭の殺人鬼』のリジナル・サウンドトラックが世界初リリース！
トラックリスト1964年公開の本作は、テレンス・フィッシャー（『フランケンシュタインの逆襲』『吸血鬼ドラキュラ』『ミイラの幽霊』）監督、ジョン・ギリング＆J・ルウェリン・ディヴァイン脚本、伝説的俳優クリストファー・リーとピーター・カッシングを主演に、リチャード・パスコ、バーバラ・シェリー、マイケル・グッドリフ、パトリック・トロートン、ジョセフ・オコナー、プルデンス・ハイマンが共演。『妖女ゴーゴン』は1910年、一見牧歌的なドイツの村ヴァンドルフで始まる。この村には恐ろしい秘密が潜んでいた──謎の力に遭遇した7人が石像と化したのだ。自由奔放な芸術家ブルーノ・ハイツが首吊り自殺したとされた後、妊娠中の恋人の殺害容疑をかけられる。父は真実を隠蔽しようと謀る地元当局を疑い、抗議する。高名な学者である彼は、もう一人の息子ポール（パスコ）の家庭教師を務める親友マイスター教授（リー）に助けを求める。その夜、父ハイツは奇妙な不気味な旋律に誘われ、ボースキー城へと足を運ぶ。そこには髪の代わりにうねる蛇を頭にまとった影のような人物が歌っていた。よろめきながら息子のアトリエに戻った彼は、石へと変貌しながら必死にメモを走り書きする…
翌日到着したポールは、父親も心臓発作で亡くなったと告げられる。地元の精神病院も運営する医師ナマロフ（カッシング）に疑問を投げかけるが拒絶される。しかしナマロフの助手カーラ（シェリー）には理解を示される。その夜遅く、ポールは城へ向かう衝動に駆られる。庭園の池に映った謎の人影をちらりと見ただけで気を失い、五日後に目を覚ますと、明らかに老け込んでいた。
マイスター教授がポールを助けるため到着する。父の石化した遺体を掘り起こしたポールは、怪物を探し出して殺す決意を固める。ナマロフは公には殺人犯は脱走した狂人の一人だと主張するが、私的にカーラに本心を打ち明ける。真犯人は別の人物、伝説のゴルゴン三姉妹の霊に取り憑かれた者だと。その者を見つめた者は石に変わるのだと…
作曲家ジェームズ・バーナードは、ハンマー・スタジオの独特なサウンドを創り上げた人物であり、『原子人間』で同スタジオの音楽制作を開始した。彼は第二次世界大戦での従軍を終えた後、遅咲きの音楽家としての道を歩み始めた。『怪獣ウラン』と『宇宙からの侵略生物』の制作を経て、バーナードはハンマー初の主要ホラー映画『フランケンシュタインの逆襲』の音楽を担当した。これらの各スコアには、彼のトレードマークである和声とテーマの融合が特徴的で、しばしば主人公の名前を旋律で綴っていた。多くの作曲家とは異なり、バーナードは自身のスコアを頻繁に自らオーケストレーションしており、『妖女ゴーゴン』は彼のよりロマンチックなホラー作品の一つであり、間違いなく映画の中心的な女性キャラクターに触発されたものである。
1959年に公開された『双頭の殺人鬼』は、ジョージ・P・ブレイクストンとケネス・G・クレインが監督、ウィリアム・J・シェルドンとブレイクストンが脚本を担当、ピーター・ダイネリー、ジェーン・ヒルトン、中村哲、テリー・ジマーン、ノーマン・ヴァン・ホーリー、ジェリー・イトウ、武智豊子、黒木賢三、アラン・タールトンが出演した。『双頭の殺人鬼』は、東京を拠点とする国際ジャーナリスト、ラリー・スタンフォード（ダイネリー）の物語である。彼の最新の任務は、火山近くの孤立した研究所への取材だった。人里離れた科学者（中村）へのインタビューの努力は、彼にとって新たな友情の誕生のように思えたが、実際にはスタンフォードは実験的な血清を密かに注射され、狂気の遺伝子実験の最新のモルモットになっていた...
医師の美しい助手（ジマーン）は、薬がスタンフォードの人格をどう変えるかを観察するため、彼を誘惑する任務を課せられる。彼はすぐに攻撃的になり、友人であり編集者のイアン（ヴァン・ホーリー）の助けを無視する。イアンはラリーの妻（ヒルトン）も助けに呼び寄せていた。やがて東京は恐怖に陥る。複数の若い女性が惨殺される事件が発生し、警部（伊藤）はスタンフォードと殺人犯の関連を疑う。誰にも知られず、ラリーの身体は変貌を始めていた。右肩に現れた眼球が動物的な頭部へと成長し、やがて第二の獣の身体へと進化していくのだ…
『双頭の殺人鬼』の音楽は小川寛興が担当。作曲家は日本の東京生まれ。彼の最も著名な作品には、1950年代のテレビシリーズ及び劇場版『月光仮面』の音楽がある。近年アメリカでリリースされた彼の音楽作品には『大忍術映画 ワタリ』や『飛びだす冒険映画 赤影などがある。
古典ホラー映画シリーズ第3弾となる本作は、デジタル・アウトランドのジェームズ・ネルソンによるマスタリングを施し、スターログ誌のデイヴィッド・ハーシュとサム・スカリによる本アルバム収録楽曲の独占ライナーノーツを収録。
限定盤。
Dragon's Domain Records proudly presents the third volume in a new ongoing series of music from classic horror films from the Golden Age, featuring two world premiere releases of music from THE GORGON and THE MANSTER.
Released in 1964, was directed by Terence Fisher (CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, HORROR OF DRACULA, THE MUMMY), written by John Gilling and J. Llewellyn Devine, starring legendary actors Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, along with Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe, Patrick Troughton, Joseph O'Conor and Prudence Hyman. THE GORGON begins in 1910, in Vandorf, a seemingly idyllic German village which is harboring a horrific secret: Seven people have died after encountering a mysterious force that turns bodies into stone. When Bruno Heitz, a bohemian artist believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself is blamed for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend, his father challenges local officials who he suspects of conspiring to hide the truth. An esteemed academic, he sends for help from his good friend Professor Meister (Lee), who is tutoring his other son Paul (Pasco). That night, the elder Heitz is drawn to Borski Castle by a strange and haunting melody, sung by a shadowy figure who appears to have writhing snakes on her head instead of hair. Staggering back to his son's studio, he desperately scribbles a note while slowly turning to stone...
Paul arrives the following day to learn that his father has also passed away, allegedly from a heart attack. His questions are rebuffed by Dr. Namaroff (Cushing), a medical doctor who also runs the local asylum, though he does find a sympathetic ear in Carla (Shelley), who is Namaroff's assistant. Later that night, Paul finds himself compelled to visit the castle. He merely gets a glimpse of a mysterious figure reflected in the garden pool before passing out and awakening five days later, only to learn that he has noticeably aged.
Professor Meister arrives to help Paul who, after exhuming his father's stone corpse, is determined to locate and kill the monster. Namaroff insists publicly that the killer is one of his escaped lunatics, but in private he confides to Carla what he truly believes, that the murderer is someone else, a person possessed by the spirit of one of the mythical Gorgon sisters who, when gazed upon, turn people to stone...
Composer James Bernard was the man responsible for creating Hammer Studio's unique sound, having begun scoring for the studio with THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT. He had commenced his music studies later in life, after completing his service during the Second World War. Following his work on X THE UNKNOWN and QUATERMASS 2, Bernard scored Hammer's first major horror film, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Each of these scores featured his trademark blend of harmonies and themes that often melodically spelled out the protagonists' names. Unlike many composers, Bernard frequently orchestrated his own scores and THE GORGON represents one of his more romantic horror efforts, undoubtedly inspired by the film's central female character.
Released in 1959, THE MANSTER was directed by George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane, written by William J. Sheldon and Breakston, starring Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Norman Van Hawley, Jerry Ito, Toyoko Takechi, Kenzo Kuroki and Alan Tarlton. THE MANSTER tells the story of Larry Stanford (Dyneley), an international journalist based inTokyo. His latest assignment sends him to an isolated laboratory located near a volcanic mountain. His efforts to interview a reclusive scientist (Nakamura)yields what he perceives to be a new friendship, but in reality Stanford has been secretly injected with an experimental serum, becoming the latest guinea pig in a mad, genetic experiment...
The doctor's beautiful assistant (Zimmern) is tasked with seducing Stanford in an attempt to observe how the drug changes his personality. He soon becomes more aggressive, ignoring help from his friend and editor Ian (Van Hawley), who has also flown Larry's wife (Hylton) in to help. Soon, the city of Tokyo finds itself in the grip of terror as several young women are brutally murdered, and a police inspector (Ito) suspects a link between Stanford and the killer. Unbeknownst to all, Larry has begun a physical transformation with the appearance of an eye on his right shoulder that grows into an animalistic head, later evolving into a second beastly body...
The music for THE MANSTER was composed by Hirooki Ogawa. The composer was born in Tokyo, Japan. Among his most notable scores were for the GEKKO KAMEN and MOONLIGHT MASK television and theatrical series in the 1950s.Some of the films featuring his scoring work has been recently released in the U.S., including WATARI THE NINJA BOY (Daininjutsu eiga Watari) and NINJA SCOPE (Tobidasu Boken Eiga: Akakage).
This third volume in Dragon's Domain Records series of classic horror films has been mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland, featuring exclusive liner notes by Starlog Magazine's David Hirsch with Sam Scali on the music featured on the album. THE GOLDEN AGE OF HORROR VOL. 3 is a limited edition release and is expected to begin shipping the week of October 28th,2025.
SPECIAL NOTE: These recordings were originally taken from analog masters and music & effects tracks and therefore certain limitations from the source tapes may be evident. We have tried to preserve as closely as possible, the quality of the original recordings.
2025/10/28の週発売
THE GORGON (1964)
Music by James Bernard<
01. Main Title (3:22)
02. Death in the Forest / Broken Finger / Woman of Stone / Bruno's Body / Inquest Conclusion / Village Thugs (2:33)
03. The Siren's Call /Turning to Stone (4:31)
04. Surviving Son Contemplates (2:22)
05. The Legend / Terrible Reflection (4:04)
06. Nightmare / It Was Only a Dream / Exhumation / Come Away With Me (3:35)
07. Take Me Away Now (3:01)
08. Meister Steals the File (2:33)
09. It's Too Late / It's the Full Moon / Paul Escapes / Back to the Castle (2:55)
10. She's Free & Finale (4:27)
11. The Gorgon (1964) Theatrical Trailer (2:42)
THE MANSTER (1959)
Music by Hirooki Ogawa
12. Murder in the Onsen / Main Title / Climbing Into the Mist (2:37)
13. Disposing Kenji's Body (1:47)
14. Stanford Arrives at the Lab / Suzuki Drugs Stanford / Preparing the Hypo / Injecting Stanford (2:44)
15. Tokyo Branch Office / Call From the Wife / Geisha House (2:31)
16. Saki Before Our Bath / An Evening with Tara (2:46)
17. The Girlfriend or Me/ Tara's Demands / Hand Transformation (4:05)
18. Something On His Shoulder / The Priest / Where Did You Get Those Prayer Beads? / Murderous Rampage (2:57)
19. Emiko / Eye On His Shoulder / Second Head (2:06)
20. Matthews Searches for Stanford / Manster vs. Police / Wife Discovers Manster (3:08)
21. Mansterhunt (2:00)
22. Searching Tara's House (1:16)
23. The Shipyard (2:23)
24. Suzuki Shoots Emiko (1:39)
25. Manster Stabs Suzuki / The Split / Man vs. Monster / Finale (4:11)
26. The Manster (1959) Theatrical Trailer (1:33)
Total Time 74:05BR>