John Carpenter: The Man Who Scored Your Nightmares

Before his name became synonymous with nightmares and jumpscares, John Carpenter was a humble film student with an extremely limited budget.

So, what did this industrious director do when he couldn't afford to hire a composer? He became one.

This week on Tape Spaghetti, Scott & Blake look at Carpenter's lesser-known brilliance as a music-maker and how what started as a workaround became a legacy of minimalist tension and, without hyperbole, the sound of fear itself.

With a lofty imagination but no money for an orchestra, Carpenter discovered he could create massive, atmospheric synth...