Is Creed’s “What If” from Scream 3 the very best horror film soundtrack music of all time?
What whether it is? And if not — what’s?
These ideas obtained consideration throughout a latest episode of Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast, the place a panel of horror buffs focus on the metal-tinged Creed rocker’s Scream 3 inclusion, amongst different needle drops within the long-running Scream collection.
Creed’s “What If” emerged in 2000 as a single from the Scott Stapp-led band’s Human Clay, their 1999 album. Its single launch and music video tied on to Scream 3, the 2000 installment of Wes Craven’s horror-whodunnit franchise that continued after the director’s loss of life with Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023). However at the moment, the Creed music is maybe extra remembered for its film inclusion than its dad or mum album.
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Why is that? We are able to solely collect that the glorious diegetic placement of “What If” in Scream 3‘s opening kill scene bolstered the tune’s thematic weight and possibly its retrospective appreciation, one thing seemed again on by the Halloweenies.
And possibly it is that kind of placement — the music is bodily enjoying on a stereo throughout the narrative of the movie, as in, it’s heard by the Scream characters and isn’t extra-diegetic — that has lent the Creed single such a memorable horror afterglow.
Creed Scene in Scream 3 (2000)
In the beginning of Scream 3, the falsely-accused Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) from Scream (1996) and Scream 2 (1997) is driving residence to his girlfriend, Christine (Kelly Rutherford). En route, the murderous Scream antagonist Ghostface taunts him by telephone, a Scream hallmark. Ghostface then terrorizes Christine earlier than killing each, however not earlier than the villain seemingly places on the Creed monitor. (Does Ghostface like Creed?)
The Scream 3 Soundtrack
The Scream 3 soundtrack — referred to as Scream: The Album on its cowl artwork — was an train in company synergy at a time when report labels had been tightening their grip on management over function movie music. The Scream 3 soundtrack was totally curated and produced by Wind-up Leisure, Creed’s report label on the time, and closely focuses on Creed and different Wind-up artists.
Naturally, “What If” is the primary music on the monitor record, however the remainder of the album is crammed with laborious rock and steel adjoining in type to the groove-laden Creed monitor. It additionally consists of songs by Slipknot, System of a Down, Sevendust, Godsmack, Coal Chamber, Orgy and Staind. One other Creed music closes out the album.
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