Is Creed’s “What If” from Scream 3 the greatest horror film soundtrack tune of all time?
What whether it is? And if not — what’s?
Those ideas acquired consideration throughout a current episode of Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast, the place a panel of horror buffs talk about the metal-tinged Creed rocker’s Scream 3 inclusion, amongst different needle drops in 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). But right now, the Creed tune is maybe extra remembered for its film inclusion than its father or mother album.
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Why is that? We can 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 regarded again on by the Halloweenies.
And possibly it is that kind of placement — the tune is bodily enjoying on a stereo inside 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)
At the begin of Scream 3, the falsely-accused Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) from Scream (1996) and Scream 2 (1997) is driving house 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
‘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 document labels have been tightening their grip on management over characteristic movie music. The Scream 3 soundtrack was completely curated and produced by Wind-up Entertainment, Creed’s document label at the time, and closely focuses on Creed and different Wind-up artists.
Naturally, “What If” is the first tune on the monitor record, however the relaxation of the album is crammed with arduous rock and steel adjoining in fashion to the groove-laden Creed monitor. It additionally contains songs by Slipknot, System of a Down, Sevendust, Godsmack, Coal Chamber, Orgy and Staind. Another Creed tune closes out the album.
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