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“The Jinn” appeared in much the same way as “Maiden and the Monster”. I was messing around with a bunch of different effects and ended up with this strange creation. Every time I hit one chord; all sorts of different octaves, sounds, and delays would flow out of it. It wasn’t ready to be a song, but I took note of it. Maybe six months later I came back to it, and it sounded great. I realized with some work, it could become a companion piece to “Maiden and the Monster”. A continuation in time as well as sound.
I see “The Jinn” representing another point in horror cinema. This time it’s more about the 50’s and how horror took a certain turn, getting more progressive and more Sci-Fi. It represents all those wacky high concept low budget films – crazy invasions, giant insects, horrors from space, horrors from the ocean. Visually, they were amazing, and they were great atmospherically too. Some of my favorites are The Black Sleep, It Conquered the World, and Plan 9 From Outer Space. A lot of those movies had those fairy-tale endings as well. The good guys win, justice is served, the hero escapes … I tried to capture the spirit of that in “The Jinn”.
The last part of “The Jinn” is like a transition from the 50’s into the 60’s, and how things became more realistic in the Horror genre. More gritty, more violent, more blood on the screen. Then, simultaneously, there’s all these great Western films coming out with Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, also those spaghetti westerns from Europe. And then the weird hybrids, like Jesse James meets Frankenstein’s Daughter or Billy the Kid Versus Dracula.
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