LISTEN: Nine Inch Nails cover John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’ to mark Friday 13th

It's suitably haunting

Published 13th Oct 2017

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have covered John Carpenter’s classic ‘Halloween’ movie theme to mark Friday 13th.

Imbued with the Nine Inch Nails blueprint, the slow-creeping clamour of the opening two minutes soon makes way for a suitably haunting, industrial interpretation of the timeless horror theme that builds to a voluminous crescendo.

Trent Reznor comments: “I clearly remember my friends and I at 13 years old conning our parents into letting us see Halloween when it came out in 1978.

"We left the theatre forever changed. We were damaged and scarred, with the s*** genuinely scared out of us and that theme stuck firmly in our heads. John Carpenter, it’s your fault that I turned out the way I did.”

Giving his seal of approval to the cover, John Carpenter says: “Moody and dark, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ version of Halloween does amazing justice to the original. I’m impressed."

John Carpenter

The cover is lifted from John Carpenter’s ‘Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998’; a collection of his classic movie themes that’s set for release on Friday 20th October via Sacred Bones.

The track-list is as follows:

1) In the Mouth of Madness

2) Assault on Precinct 13

3) The Fog

4) Prince of Darkness

5) Santiago (Vampires)

6) Escape From New York

7) Halloween (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross version)

8) Porkchop Express (Big Trouble in Little China)

9) They Live

10) The Thing

11) Starman

12) Dark Star

13) Christine

John Carpenter 'Anthology'