THE PRIMEVALS belongs to a different time, a different place, an imagined world of monsters, myth and magic that has only ever existed within the confines of classic fantasy cinema. Even if its chief architect, David Allen, had lived and the film had been released in the 1990s, it would have still been out of synch with the zeitgeist. Seen today, it’s a truly singular experience, floating in a bubble outside and above anything else being made. Fifty years ago, filmmaker David Allen registered the story for the film that would become ‘The Primevals’. His goal was to elevate the art of stop-motion animation into more serious, thoughtful storytelling. In the mid-1960s, the film had started as an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs, reminiscent of the fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen that had impressed David as a child. He died in 1999 and the task of completing the film fell to his visual effects colleague Chris Endicott While award winning and Emmy nominated composer Richard Band is primarily known to many as a composer for Horror and Genre films, he has often stepped well outside the horror genre and diversified his body of work demonstrating his ability to tackle any genre and style presented to him. ‘The Primevals’ represents a glorious hark back to the classic scores that fuelled so many of the Harryhausen films of the 1950s and 1960s. A delirious thrill-ride through the joys of monsters, ray-guns, spaceships and good old-fashioned stop motion animation
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1 The Gale and Mountain Shack / Battling the Yeti / Main Title 2 Dr. Collier's Announcement 3 Unveiling the Yeti 4 Matt and Dr. Collier 5 They Talk / The Expedition 6 Rondo Agrees to The Expedition 7 Meeting Cathleen / Kiku 8 Pushing On / Yeti Tracks 9 Awakened by a Yeti / Kiku 10 The Tower / Earthquake 11 The Cave / A New Land 12 Rafting Down the River 13 The Hominid Village 14 Matt Hears Villagers Screaming 15 The Hominid Confrontation 16 The Wrecked Village / Onwards 17 Entering the Caves 18 Huge Spaceship Discovery 19 The Spaceship / Inside the Spaceship 20 The Abduction 21 In the Cages 22 Taken to "The Arena" 23 The Lizard Arena Show 24 The Yeti is Released 25 Escaping the Cages / The Yeti Helps the Escape Part 1 26 The Yeti Helps the Escape Part 2 / Matt Has a Plan 27 Dr. Collier Dies & Finale 28 End Titles
レイ・ハリーハウゼンのファンタジー映画を彷彿とさせる、ストップモーション・アニメーターのデヴィッド・アレンと引き継いだスタッフによる新作SFファンタジー・アドベンチャーのオリジナル・サウンドトラック。音楽は数々の賞を受賞し、エミー賞にもノミネートされた作曲家リチャード・バンド。主にホラー映画やジャンル映画の作曲家として多くの人に知られているが、彼はホラーというジャンルの枠を大きく飛び出し、どんなジャンルやスタイルにも取り組むことができる才能を発揮し、作品群を多様化してきました。この「The Primevals」は、1950年代から1960年代のレイ・ハリーハウゼン映画の多くを支えた古典的な音楽への輝かしい回帰を表現しています。モンスター、光線銃、宇宙船、そして古き良きストップモーション・アニメーションの醍醐味に酔いしれるスリル満点の作品です！
トラックリストTHE PRIMEVALS belongs to a different time, a different place, an imagined world of monsters, myth and magic that has only ever existed within the confines of classic fantasy cinema. Even if its chief architect, David Allen, had lived and the film had been released in the 1990s, it would have still been out of synch with the zeitgeist. Seen today, it’s a truly singular experience, floating in a bubble outside and above anything else being made.
Fifty years ago, filmmaker David Allen registered the story for the film that would become ‘The Primevals’. His goal was to elevate the art of stop-motion animation into more serious, thoughtful storytelling. In the mid-1960s, the film had started as an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs, reminiscent of the fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen that had impressed David as a child. He died in 1999 and the task of completing the film fell to his visual effects colleague Chris Endicott
While award winning and Emmy nominated composer Richard Band is primarily known to many as a composer for Horror and Genre films, he has often stepped well outside the horror genre and diversified his body of work demonstrating his ability to tackle any genre and style presented to him. ‘The Primevals’ represents a glorious hark back to the classic scores that fuelled so many of the Harryhausen films of the 1950s and 1960s. A delirious thrill-ride through the joys of monsters, ray-guns, spaceships and good old-fashioned stop motion animation
1 The Gale and Mountain Shack / Battling the Yeti / Main Title
2 Dr. Collier's Announcement
3 Unveiling the Yeti
4 Matt and Dr. Collier
5 They Talk / The Expedition
6 Rondo Agrees to The Expedition
7 Meeting Cathleen / Kiku
8 Pushing On / Yeti Tracks
9 Awakened by a Yeti / Kiku
10 The Tower / Earthquake
11 The Cave / A New Land
12 Rafting Down the River
13 The Hominid Village
14 Matt Hears Villagers Screaming
15 The Hominid Confrontation
16 The Wrecked Village / Onwards
17 Entering the Caves
18 Huge Spaceship Discovery
19 The Spaceship / Inside the Spaceship
20 The Abduction
21 In the Cages
22 Taken to "The Arena"
23 The Lizard Arena Show
24 The Yeti is Released
25 Escaping the Cages / The Yeti Helps the Escape Part 1
26 The Yeti Helps the Escape Part 2 / Matt Has a Plan
27 Dr. Collier Dies & Finale
28 End Titles