What is that chilling chant? - Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) Discussion

[–] requiett 17 years ago

It's an original piece called "Waxing Elizabeth" written by Bruce Broughton for the film. Good luck finding the soundtrack anywhere though.

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[–] Deusvolt 17 years ago

Amazing. I thought they just used some classical piece just like they did in The Omen and other horror flicks. Thanks.

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[–] oigaprofe 17 years ago

This is only an aclaration... The producers (or anybody) used any classical music in "The omen"... all the score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.

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[–] Deusvolt 17 years ago

Are you sure? The credits say the original music is by Goldsmith; not that all the music is by Goldsmith. I seem to remember running credits in the actual movie acknowledging excerpts from religious baroque music. The only way to settle this is to see the movie again. Re-arranging old classics for films is not uncommon as in another interesting occult movie, The Mephisto Waltz

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[–] Gator_MacReady 17 years ago

Rametep, Rametep.
Rametep, Rametep.
Eh tare, Homentep.
Eh tare, Syristep.
Eh tare, Homentep.
Eh tare, ra, rametep.

Meh!

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[–] Deusvolt 17 years ago

Thanks. Now you just gave me the heebie jeebies.

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[–] Picnic10 9 years ago

By 'classical piece' from The Omen do you mean Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells from the 1970s? It was no generic choice.

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[–] AnneOnymous 9 years ago

Tubular Bells was The Exorcist. The Omen soundtrack was composed by Jerry Goldsmith and it totally rocked.

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[–] drxcreatures 9 years ago

LOL That soundtrack is super easy to find.

http://www.cgonzales.net & http://www.drxcreatures.com

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[–] ccaptian 17 years ago

You're right. Everytime I watch that movie, the chant gets stuck in my head for a few days.

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[–] sparafucile007 17 years ago

It kind of sounds like the opening movement of Carmina Burana, though.

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[–] gottfrid 17 years ago

Thats exactly what I thought... For years I thought that that music was from Carmina Burana...

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[–] Picnic-3 16 years ago

That chant is so intriguingly memorable, as is the film.

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[–] faeria 9 years ago

Everytime I watch that movie, the chant gets stuck in my head for a few days.

I'm not the only one that happens to? Nice to know! Actually just reading this thread put the chant back in my head and it will take a while to get it out again.

Hi. I'm the inner babysitter!

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[–] nijama_312 16 years ago

it is featured on Cinema Choral Classics vol 3
available from amazon.com etc...

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[–] CalDexter 16 years ago

Its a good rip off of the Thugee ceremony in Temple Of Doom...i mean u can see that a mile off. And that music sounds like the piece out of that Old Spice advert from the Seventies. Good scene though.

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[–] Aggelos_Kreouzis 16 years ago

Yes when I see the hot water coming in and I here the music I always say F#$%!!!

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[–] telecomladyj 16 years ago

That's not hot water they pour on her it's wax- ostensibly the reason Broughton named the tune "Waxing Elizabeth".
It's part of the process to preserve the mummy (which granted, would traditionally be dead already).

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[–] rhipaean 16 years ago

Even though I like Young Sherlock Holmes, it's not a major fave . . . but any time I read about cults, pagan religions, Manson-Family-like groups, Aleister Crowley, or the like, in fiction or reality, I hear that "Ramatep" chant in my head!

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[–] stevenackerman69 16 years ago

Well, I know they are chanting the name Rametat, which is their group name. It is funny but at one point, I keep hearing them say "Bobbitt", like John Bobbitt, the man who got his penis cut off by his wife in 1993. I guess that is just in my head.

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[–] Gator_MacReady 16 years ago

You're almost right.

The chorus goes:

'el mal te mel
teh han te bran mobbit'

Meh!

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[–] tgrrrsss 16 years ago

There is a 7 minute posting of the whole thing showing on You Tube, chilling stuff, incredibly dark this film in many ways I can't imagine what they would do now, I think it's a PG as it's over 20 years old but for Speilberg type film it's very dark.
Maybe a 15 today I'd say, cos of... well you know.

The Rametap, still resonates today.

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[–] heisenberg83 16 years ago

The whole ritual sacrifice scene is incredibly similar to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (also by Spielberg) which was released 1 year before this movie.

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[–] Gator_MacReady 16 years ago

The whole ritual sacrifice scene is incredibly similar to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (also by Spielberg) which was released 1 year before this movie.

Did nobody pay attention to my thread?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090357/board/flat/115420576

Meh!

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