Escape From Suburbia - Jerry Goldsmith

"DON'T LOOK BACK!!!"

LATER DAYS: The Jerry Goldsmith Experience: Track Sixteen

Song: Escape from Suburbia
Artist: Jerry Goldsmith
Album: Poltergeist OST
Quote: Steven Freeling (Craig T. Nelson)/Poltergeist
Mix: Sleepy Dragon

In the end it always comes back to Poltergeist for me. I saw this movie when I was seven and it affected me to such a degree that it became my favorite movie of all time. It was also the first time I ever experienced Jerry Goldsmith's music for myself. I used this song as the climax for the Mix Sleepy Dragon, which combines Poltergeist with the Never Ending Story in interesting and unexpected ways. I had originally just put the song up but decided later to go ahead and put the entire ending scene from Poltergeist on the Mix. It is one of the most intense and satisfying endings in movie history and is scored to absolute perfection by Jerry Goldsmith.