The Mystic (Original Score)

by Dean Hurley

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1.	Main Titles 01:01	buy track
2.	Carnival Calliope 01:45	buy track
3.	We'll Fix Him 01:26	buy track
4.	Trapping the Stranger 02:42	buy track
5.	The Proposition 02:17	buy track
6.	The First Seance 03:55	buy track
7.	Who Is That Woman? 02:58	buy track
8.	Plotting 02:09	buy track
9.	The Second Seance 02:49	buy track
10.	Earthly Possessions 01:52	buy track
11.	A Change of Heart 06:29	buy track
12.	We're Not Going Through With It 04:32	buy track
13.	The Lobby 00:57	buy track
14.	Final Suite 06:07	buy track
15.	The End 01:28	buy track

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Dean Hurley’s haunting original score for Tod Browning’s 1925 silent film The Mystic.

Commissioned by The Criterion Collection and released on Blu-ray October 17th, it marks the first time this rare Browning title has ever been available on home video.

Set amid Browning’s favored milieu of shadowy sideshows and clever criminals, The Mystic tells the story of Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man, infiltrates and swindles New York high society. Browning’s fascination with the weird is on full display in the eerie seance sequences, while his subversive moral ambiguity extends surprising sympathy to even the most seemingly irredeemable of antiheroes. Truly a missing link in Browning’s filmography that sheds light on his development as early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur.

Hurley’s accompanying score is a fully hauntological affair featuring dusty accordion, nylon-stringed guitar, calliope, brass, and more…all captured through sheets of authentic optical and analog noise.

Artwork by Raphael Geroni

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released October 27, 2023

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Dean Hurley Los Angeles, California

A longtime David Lynch collaborator, Dean Hurley operated and managed Lynch’s Asymmetrical Studio from 2005-2018 where he worked closely with Lynch on the sound and music for his feature films, commercial work, music albums and most recently the third season of Twin Peaks (Showtime). Hurley inaugurated the Anthology Resource series with a compilation of his licensed material from the show in 2017. ... more

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