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There's an extremely tenuous connecting link to the score that this most resembles: Goldsmith's
Star Trek: The Motion Picture. That movie was directed by Robert Wise, as was the 1963 original
The Haunting. The musical link isn't the starry brass fanfares of the space opera, but the eerie wonder lost inside the V'ger cloud. As Liam Neeson's clueless group wander Hugh Craine's spectacularly evil Hill House, the cyclic harp figures and gaze-in-wonder strings recall that stop-and-stare situation from the Enterprise crew's voyage. Another effect causing spatial
deja vu is his prolific use of a digitised Blaster Beam, also from the original
Trek movie. Electronic sampling this time allows for tauter manipulation into regular beats (for Goldsmith's
Star Trek: Insurrection the sample augments the dramatic underscore in the same way as here). Thankfully there are no stabbing shrieks or atonal experiments, instead Goldsmith goes all out to convey cavernous emptiness and the unknown. It works, but merely by virtue of having done so elsewhere before.
--Paul Tonks
