I’ve been so busy the past two days that I haven’t even been able to type up a description of this week’s “Picture Perfect,” which is slated to air in just a few minutes. Nothing too in-depth, then. Suffice it to say, I’ll be featuring music from movies inspired by real-life horror and science fiction icons.
We’ll be listening to selections from “Hitchcock” (2012), a behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Psycho,” with music by Danny Elfman; “Matinee” (1993), with John Goodman as a William Castle-type filmmaker, promoting his latest B-masterpiece against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, with music by Jerry Goldsmith; “Gods and Monsters” (1998), set during the final days of James Whale, the director of “Frankenstein” and “The Invisible Man,” with music by Carter Burwell; and “Ed Wood” (1994), Tim Burton’s love-letter to the director notorious for having helmed some of the worst films ever made, including “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” with bongo- and theremin-laden music by Howard Shore.
I hope you’ll join me for an hour of behind-the-scenes horrors this week, on “Picture Perfect,” tonight at 6 ET, with a repeat tomorrow morning at 6; or that you’ll listen to it later as a webcast at wwfm.org.

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