If you have seen Amicus’ Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), The Skull (1965) and The Psychopath (1966), Hammer’s Paranoiac (1963) or Pennea’s Theatre of Death (1967), you can’t help but have noticed the wonderful, yet disturbing music.

It was composed by Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), an avant garde pioneer who was, until recently, unfairly forgotten, despite scoring a number of cult classics. She also created soundtracks for great - and not-so-great - British science fiction, like The Earth Dies Screaming, Spaceflight IC-1 and the oddball Charles Hawtrey alien abduction vehicle The Terrornauts.