I agree 100%!! The film itself & especially that multi-layered haunting ending does too!!!!! OMG that one might be the most mind-haunting, play-with-your-emotions ending ever!
@charitysghost: "Thank you" for your kind comments on both the Music & the Film, I am so pleased you enjoyed both, and very much appreciate your watching FULL CIRCLE, Best wishes from one of the Cast.
@@taracollins5597 So glad you enjoyed the Film, and Music, and "thank you" so much for watching it, and your nice comments, very much appreciated on behalf of myself and my fellow Cast and Crew who worked on FULL CIRCLE.back in 1976.
@@Cortinaman63but who are YOU in that cast? You kno people are going to want to know! I'm dying to kno! 🤣🤷🏼♀️ one of this kids? I assume either you're fairly older or my age I'm 52....
@@6Haunted-Days If any one else sees this, and is at all interested, (very kind if you are), there is a video on my channel which gives "Behind the scenes" info on the film, and what it was like working with Mia and the Crew, and what my part in the film was, and now is, in the final cut, as several scenes we filmed were cut out/not used. and not mentioned on the new extras on the re-release, so something true fans may enjoy,
Amazingly underrated, practically unknown score... I love the movie, but this music blows the movie away. Sad, that it isn't right up there with tubular bells/the exorcist. One probably influenced the other, but I discovered them both nearly at the same time during my 80s childhood.
I agree!! This is a phenomenal piece of music. I cannot understand why the film itself isn't more well-known either! Or why it is not played on TV, ever! But then, what films do any of us EVER see any more? :( The same ones play over & over.
@@taracollins5597 I first saw this on HBO in 1982. One year after it was released in the USA. The melody is so haunting. No soundtrack has blown me away as much as this one.
A criminally underrated film with an even more criminally underrated soundtrack. The haunting melody and the themes of grief, tragedy, and sorrow are expressed perfectly.
I agree completely. I have loved this soundtrack ever since I first heard it in the excellent film, over 25 years ago! This even surpasses the novel.....as enjoyable as that was. The ending is MUCH more haunting in the movie. Perhaps the most incredible thing about the film (besides the music & cinematography) is how I never realized some of the details about the plot.....UNTIL NOW! Such as how exactly Olivia 'used' Julia! Superb stuff.
Greatest horror movie soundtrack of the era and beyond 🖤 Such a haunting tale of grief and madness wrapped up with lush visuals and beautiful renditions of Mia. Thank you for the upload 🖤
I was a teenager when this film was made and am now in my early 60s and just saw/heard of it on TCM the other night. I thought it was absolutly fantastic! I was in awe almost immediatly of this music. I was dying to google who did the music but there were no commercials and I couldnt drag myself away from it. I was thinking it sounded a lot like something Emerson Lake & Palmer would have done.
I first heard this more than 25 years ago when I saw the movie it's from and never forgot it. I have just heard it again now for the first time since then and loved it still...sublimely haunting, gorgeously creepy...
I agree 100%. Every time I hear this piece of music, its like the first time! That is the sign of a beautiful & haunting work. This only got some of the attention it deserved, as did the film. I think it was a little 'ahead of its time' , theme-wise, even for the '70s. Films like THE EXORCIST had begun to emerge, so audiences went for that style of horror filmmaking. I absolutely love THE EXORCIST, but this one is in a league of its own!
I am 21 and this song has been part of my childhood since my dad showed me it on the piano, it is absolutely amazing and I’ve been coming to this link for years and years now I feel like… this will never get old
Me too! I've been wshistling it for eons, but could not get access to that part of my brain with the source of this lullaby. It is just as haunting as when I watche dit with my dad when I was 6.
Amazingly haunting and eerie and really made the movie what it was! Mia Farrow is beautiful and somewhat haunting herself. Wonderful score, music like this just isn’t played anymore in horror movies and it’s a shame. We know have silly pop music which totally throws the movie into comedy mode. Utube is the best has everything!
This to me has always been his best work. I grew up with this we had the album and it was always part of our playlist. The depth of presence is truly haunting yet beautiful. Perfectly apt for the film.
I first heard this quite some years ago (I must’ve been 12, maybe 13? Maybe younger?) used in a video documenting the demolition of a power station somewhere here on RU-vid. The song has stuck with me, and I find myself listening to it quite often. Beautifully haunting and HIGHLY underrated
While the film does have its flaws, it still chills mightily....and is made so even more by the superb soundtrack! This music piece starts out light & flowery, an eerie note enters, then retreats while a very wistful sad period ensues....then the eerie notes return....but the wistful never quite leaves.
@@taracollins5597 Yes!!...watched the film last night and she hypnotised me! Very powerful performance by her. "She choked on her own WICKEDNESS"!!!! 😅
Check out Colin Towns when he was In the heavy rock band Gillan .. Tracks like On The Rocks , Mr Universe Fighting Man or Second Sight are worth checking out for his input
A BRAND NEW 2 disc box set with 4K ULTRA HD & BLU-RAY, and 26 page booklet has been re released as of 23th April 2023, by the BFI (UK), of this very beautiful Film, FULL CIRCLE, made in November 1976, and IMPRINT (Australia) have a 2 dics box set with a 4K HD DVD, and Audio CD of the soundtrack, plus a 44 page booklet, and in the USA the film is being released by (SCREAM FACTORY). I admit I am bias as I am in this film, (as a Child Actor), but I ADORE this film so much. The new release picture quality is far better than any print you will have seen before, having been restored from the original colour negative, and it is in the original aspect ratio of the Cinema print, so you see more detail of each scene, than on the 1982 VHS MEDIA Video or poor quality DVD copies, I hope fans of the Film & Colin Towns Superb Sound track, Peter Hannan's exquisite Cinematography, and Richard Loncraine's Directing, enjoy these new releases. made possible thanks to 7 years hard work by Film Historian Simon Fitzjohn ,to whom I will be forever grateful.
It begins with a feeling of unease, but in adding the piano at 1:20, I feel true chills and a smooth haunting ambience. The film can't compete with the classic Rosemary's Baby per say, but having the same talented actress Mia Farrow...I enjoyed it overall.
The music is amazing isn't it! I love the film (and the novel by the recently-passed Peter Straub :( ). What things didn't you understand in the film? Maybe I can help.
@@taracollins5597 Wow it was long time, saw it with my ex at that time, time have changed lol. Like, the ending, i don't really know what happened, and i remember someone dying in a bath or something with no explanation, and something in a basement too if i remember right.
@@LeSoleilRoyalXIV You remembered a lot! :) Despite it being a while ago. Spirits are said to only have limited powers without a body or object to possess, so Olivia possessed Julia & used her for her fiendish kills. Julia was vulnerable & lived in her old house, so it made it easier to possess her. For example: Olivia also, very briefly, possessed her when she visited the mental hospital....you see Julia's eyes suddenly "turn" into Olivia's eyes......she is possessed then & Olivia's mother sees it & freaks out and has a heart attack from fright. Julia seems to have NO IDEA she is being possessed at all, not yet anyway. Then the ending scene. This is what I truly believe happened: Julia goes home & Olivia lets her see her, fully. By this time, Julia has learned all about Olivia & how evil she is. Julia has decided to 'give up'.....she is wracked with guilt & loneliness and doesn't want to live anymore. She wants her daughter Kate, but Kate has passed-on, so she decides to end it. So she picks up the sharp-edged toy....knowing full well what will happen, holds out her arms for Olivia. Olivia possesses her, cuts her throat i the same manner as Julia did when she tried to save Kate, using the toy. Julia wants to die, so she sits there until she passes away. A truly chilling ending that stays in one's mind! I hope this helps. :) Let me know if you have any other questions.
@@taracollins5597 I never saw the other answer :o did not have any notification i think, but it make sense now, i think i should watch that movie again, because i really enjoyed the soundtrack :D.
Several people have commented about how haunting they find the soundtrack. I guess it's up to your expectations. I recorded the main theme on my reel-to-reel deck when it was released in -77. I loved it and tried to order the LP, but in those days it was very hard to find any info, especially from Sweden. It is only lately that I found out that it was a horror film soundtrack. All this time I had found the music extremely relaxing, with clear nature vibes. Horror? No way!
When we say a melody is haunting it doesn't mean it sounds creepy, it means that it's evocative and beautiful. This piece is definitely haunting because once you listen to it, it will grip you and stay with you.
@@IlseBelievesInPink I fully understand that aspect of the word haunting, but still, it is a scary movie where the title alludes to Julia being haunted by ghosts.
Remember you can listen to Colin Towns in all the IAN GILLAN BAND (CHILD IN TIME, CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE, SCARABUS) and GILLAN (Mr UNIVERSE, GLORY ROAD, FUTURE SCHOCK, MAGIC, DOUBLE TROUBLE) albums from 1975 to 1983.
There is a place in the very state that I currently live in. What's left of it tells a story. A story about sad men and women put to torture. Not much is left of the complex...but I can tell you those that entered into its halls and locked rooms still remain unfinished.
Poor lost souls. They heard the chirping of the sparrows. They felt pain. They were lost. I won't forget them. Neither can you. It was a hellhole of an asylum. Please listen to me. They cry. A dark shadow hovers over that sad place. Psychiatric facility shut down. They cry...they scream... And this gets explained away as a disorder. aspergers maybe.
44 named that place newton. Shows just how self appointed he was. Used the killing to run his own sick agenda as well. Let's skip ahead 8 years later and see what 46 tries to do. That asylum is pretty much torn down. New buildings dot the the landscape. Sports fields replace the dark tunnels. However, crazytown will always be just that. Dark and foreboding
I remember reading the novel, many years after first seeing the film. It gives some more background on the relationship between Julia & Magnus, how they met, etc. While Magnus did seem to find Julia 'compelling' in a way, its pretty clear (In both book & film) that he really only wanted her for her vast inheritance. Its so sad that he had to treat her that way.
@@taracollins5597 that’s interesting, yes I got that sense pretty strongly and Keir Dullea played it so pinch faced i wanted to see him go down lol the driving scene after Julia leaves Heather Rudge always stirs something in me finally tears run.
Great music. Saw the movie a long long time?ago and watched itcagain recently. Going to read the book now. Hope it has a better ending than the movie! But probably not. My God! What mother wouldnt go crazy and hope to find refuge in a ghost that physically resembles her daughter after watching her choke to death like that. My sister nearly choked tovdeath when she was little and said that it was every bit as painful and horrible as it looks.
Renee, if you've read Peter Straub's eerie novel JULIA (1975), then you know it's just as sad and grim as the movie. I once heard a little line of dialogue from either some film or book or TV program (don't recall which now) that goes as follows: "Places aren't haunted...People are." I guess that sums up Full Circle (The Haunting Of Julia, 1977) in a pretty accurate way, doesn't it? Who knows---maybe it was from Peter Straub HIMSELF. I just can't remember for some reason. But Mia Farrow was excellent as this poor, grieving woman. And as you might already have read, the film is very faithful to Straub's vision of things in his novel too. Both versions of this dark story are quite spooky, even horrifying in some scenes. I can't imagine how terrible it would be to lose a child at all, let alone in such an awful manner. Mia's portrayal of the lead character truly is what I would call HAUNTED. She did a fantastic job. I recall reading the book in the late 70s or early 80s, and then seeing the film in 1985. I loved Colin's wonderful movie score so much that I made a cassette recording of the end credit music off the Cinemax Channel on TV way back then, and still have it to this very day in my nearby closet. I went for YEARS without hearing that delicate sounding little gem, but I never ever forgot just how beautiful it always was. I mostly listen to it on my cellphone and RU-vid app now. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING MUSIC.✌
Truthfully.......the film has a "better" ending than the novel. Don't get me wrong, I love BOTH film & novel. Both are chilling & stay with you. But the ending of the film is less......visceral than the book. I can't explain it better than that, without revealing *spoilers.* I would still recommend the book, for more details to the tale! :) Peter Straub RIP was a very good author.
I'm trying SO HARD to find this movie on DVD. One of the classic movies channels showed FULL CIRCLE for Halloween and ever since then it's become one of my favorite ghost stories.
Great impactful music. But I don't know about the movie. Not saying it wasn't good and amazing. But is just such a horrible story. A mother watches her daughter brutally choke to death, and then gets murdered by an evil entity. I guess is still an incredibly haunting and powerful story. But just feel like you can have a story that's amazing and powerful but not have to be so awful at the same time. This story is just so morbid.
J'en ai des souvenirs comme qui dirait "Hantiques avec un grand H...". Mia F aussi pâle et diaphane que Rosemary. Un sublime film, à l'image de son actrice et à la beauté de la musique, qui mériterait vraiment qu'on le ressorte de l'oubli. Richard Donner en 1977 sauf erreur ? Tellement au dessus des bouses "Netflixées" d'aujourd'hui !!!
