The Invincible Czars Get ‘Disorienting’ & ‘Wacky’ With Their Exclusive Picks For ‘The Sound Of Halloween’ Playlist

Boo! It’s Halloween! Throughout October, HollywoodLife is running The Sound Of Halloween, where immoderate of your favourite fiends of music, movies, television, and popular civilization prime songs that should beryllium connected your Halloween 2022 playlist. Today, The Invincible Czars, the Austin-based experimental stone group, plaything by the crypt to instrumentality a wound retired of this year’s playlist.

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The Invincible Czars — started by Josh Robins (guitar, bass, samples, percussion) in 2003 and presently featuring Phil Davidson (violin, keyboards, percussion), Skunk Manhattan (piano, keyboards, bass), Louis Landry (drums, percussion, keyboards) and Zelda Younger (flute, clarinet) —  are champion known for processing and performing archetypal scores for classical fearfulness films. Since the commencement of September, the set has been touring its people to Nosferatu in grant of the landmark soundless film’s 100th Anniversary. The set has been visiting creation location cinemas, playing on to F. W. Murnau’s chilling celluloid masterpiece.

The circuit culminates successful “a large decorativeness successful our hometown of Austin, wherever my girlfriend’s kids volition spot what I bash for the archetypal time!” Josh tells HollywoodLife when discussing the band’s plans for October. Beyond that? “In 2023 we’ll merchandise our re-imagined mentation of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition successful collaboration with our friends Bee vs. Moth.” Until then, perceive to their selections for The Sound of Halloween, which fittingly includes a fewer prime cuts from immoderate iconic soundtracks.

The Invincible Czars Halloween Playlist Picks

“Prelude” from Psycho

Fast, dynamic, tense, alarming and sophisticated, this portion epitomizes melodic fearfulness soundtracks.  It kicks off my October each year

“Clown Dream” from Peewee’s Big Adventure

As horrifying arsenic the elemental rubric implies. If you’re frightened of clowns,  this is the one.

Mr. Bungle, “Quote Unquote” aka “Travolta”

This tune is disorienting, confusing, scary, surprising, and wacky — conscionable similar Halloween

Godflesh, “Like Rats”

The robots are coming for you.  Perfect for our Black Mirror-like future.

Dumbo, “Pink Elephants connected Parade”

Terrifying children since 1940

HollywoodLife: What is your astir salient Halloween memory? Like, erstwhile idiosyncratic says “Halloween,” what’s the archetypal happening that jumps into your caput from your past?    

My archetypal haunted location acquisition arsenic a 10-year-old kid successful Cleburne, Texas. Back then, actors would inactive scope retired and interaction you! There was a feline with a chainsaw astatine the precise extremity that chased maine out. I knew out. I astir peed my pants.

3. What bash you deliberation volition beryllium the astir fashionable Halloween costume this year? What SHOULD be, successful your mind?    

Popular: Vladimir Putin.
Should be: Climate change

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Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions?    

Touring the federation playing unrecorded soundless movie soundtracks like Nosferatu.

If fixed a fund and escaped scope to bash whatever, what fearfulness movie would you prima in? You tin remake immoderate movie of the past, oregon you could make your own. 

I’d emotion to bash an update connected Disney’s Child of Glass.

What’s connected pat for October for you — and the remainder of the year?    

Finishing up The Invincible Czars NOSFERATU CENTENNIAL TOUR with a large decorativeness successful our hometown of Austin, wherever my girlfriend’s kids volition spot what I bash for the archetypal time! In 2023 we’ll merchandise our re-imagined mentation of Modest Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures At An Exhibition’ successful collaboration with our friends Bee vs. Moth.