When it comes to classic horror, not all the screams are on-screen.
This week on “Picture Perfect,” we’ll peer around the shower curtain for 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 Castlesque filmmaker, promoting his latest B-movie monsterpiece 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, director of “Frankenstein” and “The Invisible Man,” with music by Carter Burwell; and “Ed Wood” (1994), Tim Burton’s love-letter to a director notorious for having helmed some of the worst movies ever made, including “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” with bongo-and-theremin-laden music by Howard Shore.
Art imitates life, on “Behind-the-Scenes Horror,” on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Saturday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
