The Haunted Palace (1963) - Opening Titles and Main Theme by Ronald Stein 

Ensnaring, eerie... a truly haunting score. The film is a total gem of Gothic melodrama and Lovecraftian high horror.

Beautiful, brilliant score by Ronald Stein!

One of the best openings of any horror movie ever. Brilliant in its simplicity, setting the tone of dread perfectly. 😎

One of the best Classic horror movie intro's and music ever. cheers ATVmidlands UK

I love this theme, and the opening credits sequence in general. The stark black background against the webbing sets such a perfect mood for the film, and the music is fantastic. It's very grand, almost waltz-like, and it reminds me of Franz Waxman's score for "The Bride of Frankenstein".

brilliantly scary film as a child and written by Charles Beaumont, I hadn't known.

I was 11. This opening scared me so much that the sweat of fear exploded on my body. I seen the movie full, but slept awfull for a week.

This is Stein's best work IMHO.

Fabulous. Thank you for this great, if ominous, Main Title. ❤️

Absolute gorgeous piece of music worthy of the classics, is very good up to 1.14 when the full string section comes in which then is pure ecstasy. The allegorical video very clever, as well as the beauty being trapped in a finely spun web. There was a limited edition CD of this film score and Premarital Burial of 3000. Unfortunately the first 1.14 of the above score is cut and replaced with the American International Pictures Fanfare, which not an uncommon practice on soundtrack albums and generally the one you want the most.

LOVE THE OPENING TRACK.

Sounds like someone borrowed a bits from this into Lynch's Dune

Oh, that music! Oh, that spiderweb!

creepy film, creepy soundtrack and creepy in general.

This was on TCM last night. I swear something I recently saw played this music because it was familiar. Great stuff, and I enjoy celebrating Halloween with the more classical atmospheric scary movies than the gross teenagers-getting-tortured-for-two-hours stuff people are generally into.

Love this theme.

Dune theme.

“As of tonight, you shall bear my curse!”

DUNE!

nice

I lovee this music very much so als al classisc horror movie :)

I know this is a dumb question but Why do I find this main theme sound so hot? Is it wrong for me to think that?

Pretty sure this was by Stein. Baxter did the much more psychedelic and ON THE NOSE music to the later film "The Dunwich Horror".

Of course it's Stein- it says so right in the credits @ 2:14. Duh.

I'm sure this was used in another Price film, but can't remember which!

The music is by Les Baxter -- not Stein!