13 Ghosts | Medea’s Theme

50 seconds| This is my arrangement of Von Dexter’s opening theme for William Castle’s 1960 film, 13 Ghosts.

By today’s CGI standards, 13 Ghosts might be viewed as shlocky, but for a young boy growing up in the late 1960s, it was perfect Saturday afternoon’s television entertainment, and fuel for my developing imagination. William Castle’s stock trade of jump scares were here mixed with the wholesome sensibility of Leave it to Beaver (another favorite of mine) to produce a horror masterpiece.

Von Dexter’s film score was one of the last lush neo-romantic musical scores for what was, by then, a rapidly disappearing Hollywood era. Medea’s Theme was one more strange bedfellow in Castle’s over-the-top production, and its romantic character hints at a budding love interest in the film that was pure plot subterfuge.

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