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There's something about circus music. Done straight, it lets everyone within earshot know that they are in a world of fun for children of all ages! However, unless you're in an actual circus, then you are more likely to hear this kind of music slowed way down and played in a minor key. The effect is haunting, scary and maybe even sad and nostalgic. Often it will sound as if it's being played on an old, rusty calliope with wheezing pipes and unsteady pressure regulation, leading to out-of-tune notes. To make it even scarier, it's often Source Music in an Abandoned Area to indicate that the area is not so abandoned as the characters thoughts – and if a circus, which is well accustomed to packing up and moving, had to leave everything behind...well, whatever's inhabiting this place now is something to run away from very quickly. Definitely "Music To Run Away From Really Fast", if ever there was such a thing, as it usually means that there's a Monster Clown somewhere waiting to eat you. Or the circus is haunted. Or both. The other main use of this is as a cue that a character is losing their mind. Instruments you might hear in this type of music include a pipe organ or calliope, a music box, and, less commonly, bells or a children's choir. Please note: This trope is about circus music that is intended to be creepy. Some instances of circus music might come across as Accidental Nightmare Fuel, but you should use your judgment to figure out if the context in which the music plays is intentionally creepy or not. If it is not intended to be creepy, it most likely belongs on Happy Circus Music. Compare Ironic Nursery Tune, Creepy Jazz Music, Sinister Whistling and Soundtrack Dissonance. See also Circus of Fear and Amusement Park of Doom. May overlap with Circus Synths, in which case it also fits Freaky Electronic Music. Contrast Happy Circus Music. Fun fact: The "standard" circus theme is called "Entry of the Gladiators" and was composed as a military march. (History does not record whether the soldiers were intended to emerge from a tiny little car.) Because the song is so recognizable, it is common to hear the familiar 10-note melody in creepy circus music. |
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Shows up in several Tales from the Crypt episodes, namely "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone", "Lower Berth", "Strung Along" and "Food For Thought". | |
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In League of Super Evil, this type of music serves as the Leitmotif for Chuckles, a deranged Robot Clown who tortures people on their birthdays. It sounds pretty unnerving with his high-pitched voice and constant laughter. | |
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Creepy Circus Music serves as the Leitmotif of The Thrilling Adventure Hour villain Nightmares the Clown whenever he appears. It's immediately followed by Sadie Doyle delightedly shouting "Clown!" | |
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Kirby Super Star: Marx's battle theme is a chaotic and frantic tune that keeps jumping between time signatures, played on circus-esque strings and brass. Fitting for such an evil and twisted jester. | |
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Featured intermittently in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. | |
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Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon: The music used in the level "Ambush Maneuver" is a creepy calliope waltz befitting the toy train set where the level takes place. | |
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In Super Mario Kart, the "Ranked Out" jingle is a dark version of the first 10 notes from "Entry of the Gladiators". | |
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The entire soundtrack of Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate fits this trope. | |
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The title theme to Puppet Master movies sounds like it's played on a well-meaning but thoroughly evil music box. | |
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The Adventures of Figaro Pho: Used throughout the "Coulrophobia" episode, especially in scenes where the Monster Clown is pulling his cruel pranks. In the episode "Myth or Pho", Figaro, dressed up as a monster, has been captured by a nature photographer who puts Figaro on display, like a circus attraction, while creepy circus music plays in the background. |
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Apocalypse Now has a calliope theme as the background music of Do Lung Bridge, the "ass hole of the world." Unusually for this trope, there's no actual circus in the movie (although the carnival-like lights of the bridge invoke that visual). Instead, the music is used to imply that the residents here have gotten out of the proverbial boat and treat the warzone like a carnival game. | |
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The Haunting (1999) features a rotating, mirrored room which played a sprightly circus-type song composed by veteran horror composer Jerry Goldsmith. While this was justified in-story by Hugh Crain having built and designed his mansion for children to play in, a review of the movie said it best (in paraphrase): "No horror movie can be complete without creepy circus music." As if the original tune isn't unsettling enough, Eleanor later visits the room in the middle of the night while having her requisite freak-out, and the imbalanced spinning she suffers is augmented by a very deep, discordant bass line running in counterpoint to the calliope. | |
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Five Finger Death Punch's "Welcome to the Circus" uses the off-key, creepy circus music at the beginning, during the bridge, and at the end. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Lisa's First Word", when young Bart is scared by Homer's accidental Monster Clown bed decoration, a sinister carnival dirge builds up until Bart imagines the bed coming to life to tell him: "If you should die before you wake... HHHEHEHHEHEHEHEEH!!!" In "Helter Shelter", when the Simpsons house is getting gassed for bugs with a big striped tent covering it. Nelson and his bully pals think it's a circus and sneak in - then stagger out slurring the standard circus theme music. |
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Coraline has an excellently creepy scene with the Other Kangaroo Rats. Bonus points for occurring in an actual circus of sorts. | |
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SiIvaGunner: "Mad Jack Battle (Beta Mix)" combines the frantic brass and strings of Mad Jack's battle theme with the equally frantic melody of "The World Revolving." Mad Jack's creepy laugh is heard multiple times throughout the video to add to the effect. | |
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Unsurprisingly featured in Melanie Martinez's "Carousel". | |
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Trevor hears a distorted version of this in Grand Theft Auto V during the "Grass Roots" mission after smoking a joint and hallucinating a wave of Monster Clowns. | |
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Invoked in Animal Farm (1954). When the animals are exploring Mr. Jones' house, Benjamin accidentally starts up a record player that plays a loud, orchestral version of "Entry of the Gladiators." Benjamin is so frightened by the music that he kicks the record player with his donkey hooves, destroying it. Being a farm animal, Benjamin probably doesn't understand the concept of "circus music," but the music itself still sounded loud and hyperactive enough to scare him. | |
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The tune of Joker's Song is built on a carnival/circus theme, befitting the Monster Clown that's singing it. | |
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Kirby: Kirby Super Star: Marx's battle theme is a chaotic and frantic tune that keeps jumping between time signatures, played on circus-esque strings and brass. Fitting for such an evil and twisted jester. Reflected Laughter from Kirby: Triple Deluxe, which plays in the Circus of Fear level. As if that wasn't scary enough, it is used again in the haunted mansion level. It's back in Kirby and the Rainbow Curse Necrodeus' Theme from Kirby Mass Attack also qualifies. |
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The ending credits to Paranoia Agent. | |
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Call Me Kevin: Invoked and Played for Laughs in "How EVIL can you be in Bitlife?" Shortly after Kevin's character Eve Hill gets a job as a clown, he adopts a child and then promptly abandons them. Kevin hums "Entry of the Gladiators," the standard circus tune, while preparing to click the option to abandon the child. | |
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There is a music box house in Ikana Valley which constantly plays circus music to keep away the undead... successfully. This song is similar to the one in Super Mario 64. | |
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CarnEvil contains quite a bit of this, although this is to be expected, considering the game's setting. Some good examples include Select Your Doom and Ludwig von Tökkentäkker's Big Top. | |
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One of the case-files on the SCP Foundation website is SCP-823, an abandoned Amusement Park of Doom. One of the key indicators that bad things are about to go down is when creepy carnival music starts playing out of nowhere. | |
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Super Paper Mario uses this type of music in association with the sinister Magical Clown Dimentio: Dimentio, Charming Magician is Dimentio's leitmotif, which combines a sort of swanky, circus/magic show tune with a feeling of power and dread. "It's Showtime," Dimentio's Boss Remix, starts out with chaotic fast notes, creating a feeling of overwhelming power. However, the more "magical" elements from "Dimentio, Charming Magician" slowly come in, and this trope comes into full effect later (0:47 in the linked video), as the song switches to a dark waltz-like reprise of "Dimentio, Charming Magician"'s main melody. |
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There's a creepy calliope ditty called "To The Shock of Miss Louise" in The Lost Boys. | |
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Epic Mickey: The Clock Tower's theme in the first game is a very dark version of "It's a Small World". The music that is emitted from the run down floats in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two's Floatyard, creatively named "Floats" in the soundtrack, definitely fits this trope, though the area itself is on par with Mickeyjunk Mountain for being both Down in the Dumps and creepily nostalgic. |
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Sesame Street: The "Mechanical Technology" segment, which includes several horrifying close-ups of dolls with lifeless eyes, is set to Janko Nilovic's "Portrait d'un robot". | |
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BioShock Infinite also features an apparently-cheerful calliope tune that plays while Booker and Elizabeth are at Battleship Bay. The problem? Listening closely reveals it's an instrumental version of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," originally released in 1979 and made famous with Lauper's 1983 version...and the game takes place in 1912. It's one of the clues that the "tears" in time-space caused by the quantum particles which suspend the city of Columbia in the air are actually windows into years ahead, and that there are forces working to rewrite the past by stealing from the future. | |
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In the 5.x release time frame, World of Warcraft added a carousel to the Darkmoon Faire. The happy little circus tune that plays while you're riding it is eerily reminiscent of something Danny Elfman would write. | |
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Chargeman Ken!: "Waves of the Danube" in the Circus Episode is played in a minor key, and has a very melancholic tone. This turns out to be fitting, because the circus is a trap to kill Ken. | |
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The Night of the Rabbit has "Zaroff's Show," a whimsical circus march tune that plays when Jerry finally meets the Great Zaroff, the only magician in the game who embraces the image of a Stage Magician, and also, being the Big Bad, the only evil magician. | |
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Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night: The infamous Nightmare Fuel scene in which Puppetino transforms Pinocchio back into a wooden marionette by playing a sinister, chaotic carnival music with a cursed organ grinder. | |
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Homestuck: "Midnight Calliope," which is appropriate for a murderous Juggalo. Harlequin, while a bit creepy, is the theme song for the nice Nannasprite. The Carnival, a creepy-sounding remix of Harlequin that gets progressively faster and faster, is used in the 5x Showdown Combo page with great effect. |
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Batman: The Killing Joke: "I Go Looney," the Joker's written Villain Song from the original graphic novel about succumbing to madness in times of stress, is imagined here as a deranged carnival-ish tune, with a bit of a vaudeville showtune aesthetic as well. This is quite fitting for a Monster Clown singing about insanity to a man being forced through a carnival dark ride. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017): In one scene of "The Wide Window: Part 2", the Baudelaires, Mr. Poe, and a disguised Count Olaf are heading to a Kitschy Themed Restaurant called "The Anxious Clown" so Olaf can trick Poe into handing the children into his care over brunch. As they drive to the restaurant, the camera lingers on a sign advertising it, with a picture of a Sad Clown, as creepy circus music plays in the background. Naturally, this type of music is prominent in "The Carnivorous Carnival", especially when Olaf, posing as the ringmaster of Caligari Carnival, sings a song during the freaks' performance. |
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Batman: Arkham Series unsurprisingly most of Joker's themes are creepy circus tunes inspired by the Danny Elfman and Shirley Walker scores, Scarecrow's theme in Batman: Arkham Asylum has demented carnival music as well. | |
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In Captain Silver, the Pied Piper's leitmotif is a circus arrangement of Edvard Grieg's "In The Halls of the Mountain King". | |
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker uses an offscreen music box to similar effect. We are talking about the perversion of a home created by two Monster Clowns after all. | |
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Pac-Man World: The first game has a level called "Clown Prix" where you race some evil clowns. Fittingly, the level has some frantic, minor-key carnival music. | |
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Warcraft: In the 5.x release time frame, World of Warcraft added a carousel to the Darkmoon Faire. The happy little circus tune that plays while you're riding it is eerily reminiscent of something Danny Elfman would write. Then comes the trailer song for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft about the same place... |
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The Green Goblin's theme from Spider-Man, especially during his first appearance at the parade has a very unsettlingly and menacing jaunty carnival tune to it. Given the theme is done by the aforementioned Danny Elfman and the Goblin is often considered Marvel's answer to the Joker, it's very fitting. For Goblin's return in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the creepy circus allusions in his theme music is even more overt and when played during Norman's attack on young Spidey and Aunt May — all complete with Evil Laugh, it's scary as hell. | |
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Miracle of Sound: The tune of Joker's Song is built on a carnival/circus theme, befitting the Monster Clown that's singing it. His song "Call of Duty Circus" also uses this trope. |
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the basement of the abandoned Sunny Days Foster Care in Starlight Over Detrot has this playing from seemingly everywhere. | |
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Batman Doom: The "Scarecrow" track, which plays on the "House of Fear" level set in a haunted house attraction. | |
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In addition to the aforementioned "Child's Song", the series also has Mystic Cave Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Carnival Night Zone from Sonic 3 & Knuckles, which both also use the prototypical circus music "Entrance of the Gladiators". Doesn't sound so creepy, until you get to that Guide Dang It! part in Carnival Night where many players were trapped until they Game-Overed. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 uses a circus-esque theme for its boss music. It's not exactly creepy, but it certainly sounds deranged. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Mime for a Change" makes great use of this when Rainbow the Clown loses his color and is turning all of Townsville grey and silent. | |
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The theme to Child's Play 2 has this. | |
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Silent Hill has its own amusement park with creepy carnival music, which is revisited in Silent Hill 3. | |
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Although it isn't your standard circus tune, the creepy theme from the Banjo-Tooie level Witchyworld fits the mold. | |
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American Horror Story: Freak Show, which takes place at a circus, uses a variation of the standard AHS opening theme that fits this trope to a T. Just listen. | |
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Dead by Daylight plays suitably creepy music when you select the Clown as your killer in the main menu, to say nothing of the music that plays when he's chasing you. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future has "Death 13’s theme", that plays when you face the bonus boss Death Thirteen — a Monster Clown and Grim Reaper hybrid Stand — in an amusement park-like dream world. It's a whimsical but sinister and off-putting circus tune, that sounds almost like it's playing on a broken down Merry-Go-Round calliope. | |
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The Makin' Magic expansion pack for The Sims has circus music as its musical theme, and it's also the spookiest expansion pack, though only at Defanged Horrors level. | |
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Balan Wonderworld: Princess Marey, the boss of the Amusement Park-themed world, has a demented carnival waltz for her battle music. | |
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Killing Floor has a circus-themed map dubbed "Abusement Park", with slowed-down or creepified renditions of "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze", "The Entertainer", and "Entry of the Gladiators" to accompany the survival horror. | |
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In The Company of Wolves this track begins to take the form of scary circus music as unsettling Soundtrack Dissonance while the Asshole Victims at the wedding party freakishly turn into wolves. | |
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In Sam & Max Hit the Road, some of the carnival music has elements of this trope. Carnival of the Odd highlights how the carnival is a bit of a Crappy Carnival while still remaining somewhat pleasant, and Hall of Oddities sets the mood for the carnival's Freak Show. | |
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The theme from The Magic Roundabout has a certain haunting aspect, noted by Bill Bailey in one of his stand-up routines in which he "re-inserts" the "lost middle eight" which features Zebedee in a maniacal rant. | |
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Shows up in a few Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes. Namely in "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark" and "The Tale of the Dark Music." | |
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Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin has two circus levels with creepy music. | |
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The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police: In the episode "The Friend For Life", this type of music is heard multiple times. The first time it's heard is a scene where Sam and Max are at a creepy amusement park at night, standing in front of a funhouse. All of a sudden, the funhouse's lights turn on, the ride comes to life, and the ominous music begins playing. | |
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The Sims has circus music making up about half the soundtrack of the Makin' Magic expansion pack, which is the most spooky/gothic expansion and, as the title indicates, has a supernatural theme. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario 64: "Merry Go Round" would sound happy under normal circumstances, but it's downright disturbing when heard in the lower levels of the Big Boo's Haunt level. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon: The music used in the level "Ambush Maneuver" is a creepy calliope waltz befitting the toy train set where the level takes place. Super Paper Mario uses this type of music in association with the sinister Magical Clown Dimentio: Dimentio, Charming Magician is Dimentio's leitmotif, which combines a sort of swanky, circus/magic show tune with a feeling of power and dread. "It's Showtime," Dimentio's Boss Remix, starts out with chaotic fast notes, creating a feeling of overwhelming power. However, the more "magical" elements from "Dimentio, Charming Magician" slowly come in, and this trope comes into full effect later (0:47 in the linked video), as the song switches to a dark waltz-like reprise of "Dimentio, Charming Magician"'s main melody. In Super Mario Kart, the "Ranked Out" jingle is a dark version of the first 10 notes from "Entry of the Gladiators". |
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In Brutalmoose's video on Bailey's Book House, Ian pokes fun at the "Three-Letter Carnival", which, when he actually goes there, just looks like an empty field with a bunch of objects laying around. He points out that even the music, which is a circus-esque waltz tune, sounds kind of sad, and jokingly names the song "It's Time to Die, Children." | |
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Bugbo: Circus organ waltz music plays when Bugbo and friends are looking around the underground circus in "Under the Oak." Although the music is in a major key, it falls under this category instead of Happy Circus Music due to the fact that the circus is dark, grimy, and run-down. | |
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In Final Fantasy VI, Kefka's theme, a sorta circus/militaristic march mix, actually averts this trope. Instead, the creepiness comes in when you see what Kefka gleefully will do while his theme is playing... Suffice to say, you will come to associate Kefka's theme with very, very bad things. No surprise, then, that his theme is present throughout the entirety of the final boss theme "Dancing Mad," particularly the fourth movement. | |
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The 1990 miniseries has "Georgie Dies" which is straight-up creepy circus music in the first part, whereas Pennywise's leitmotif "Circus Source" is used more as Soundtrack Dissonance, but even a happy carnival tune just feels creepy because of the association. | |
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In the 2017 movie, Pennywise dances to a deranged, distorted circus music in front of Bev when she awakens in his lair, while Chapter 2 has "Dirty Little Secret" in which Pennywise sings to Richie while an eerie circus waltz is heard. | |
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As mentioned under Film-Live Action, A Streetcar Named Desire features a Varsouviana Polka that plays whenever Blanche reminisces about her late husband, Allen Grey; it's a sign that her mind is gradually slipping. We eventually find out why: The two were dancing to the Varsouviana when Blanche, in a fit of rage, told Allen that she'd seen him in bed with a man earlier that day. Allen was so ashamed and terrified of his true sexuality being revealed that he ran out and shot himself. Blanche blames herself for his death, which was the catalyst to her own mental breakdown, and so the Varsouviana Polka has run endlessly through her head ever since. | |
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The title theme of Killer Klowns from Outer Space features the abovementioned "Entry of the Gladiators" as a metal guitar riff, to match with the tongue-in-cheek evil circus theme of the titular creatures. The tracks "The Inevitable (Pt. 1)" and "Klownfrontation" fit the bill as genuine creepy circus music. |
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Unsurprisingly, the 2012 film The Devil's Carnival is loaded with this. Bonus points for the film taking place in Hell. | |
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In Haunt the House: Terrortown, the Ghost Train level, which is basically a carnival on wheels, fittingly has creepy carnival music. | |
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The Lion King (1994): The hyena theme sounds like a carnival of horrors that goes berserk after some time, fitting for such a group of deranged and clownish characters. | |
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"Psycho Circus" by KISS opens with some very creepy circus music playing. | |
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In The 7th Guest, stage magician Hamilton Temple has a circus organ leitmotif. | |
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Deltarune: An eerie waltz tune, simply titled "The Circus" plays during the buildup to the battle against Jevil, a twisted jester. His battle music itself is a frantic carnival-ish tune called "The World Revolving." | |
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Batman Returns: Given the presence of the Red Triangle Gang, a malevolent group of criminals that were formerly a children-stealing Circus of Fear, Elfman has implemented a creepy circus vibe and ominous organ grinder music whenever they appear, as observable in "Shadow Of Doom/Clown Attack", "Lair (Part 1)" and "The Rise And Fall From Grace (Part 1)". | |
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Scooby-Doo! First Frights: Naturally, can be heard throughout the Haunted Amusement Park in Episode 2. | |
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Final Fantasy: More or less played straight with Calobrena's intro theme in Final Fantasy IV. In Final Fantasy VI, Kefka's theme, a sorta circus/militaristic march mix, actually averts this trope. Instead, the creepiness comes in when you see what Kefka gleefully will do while his theme is playing... Suffice to say, you will come to associate Kefka's theme with very, very bad things. No surprise, then, that his theme is present throughout the entirety of the final boss theme "Dancing Mad," particularly the fourth movement. |
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The main menu music of Psychonauts and the final level, The Meat Circus. | |
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Opening theme to The Funhouse. | |
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Nightwish's song Scaretale certainly counts, at least from about 4:10 onwards, while also appearing to homage Grim Grinning Ghosts. | |
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Marble Madness has this in its third stage. | |
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The theme for the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "The Great Fusilli" is a fine example. | |
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In the beginning of the arcade game Ninja Clowns, there is a shot of the main character standing on a building at night, surveying the city just like Batman. During this shot, the background music is a slow, eerie version of "Entry of the Gladiators" | |
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Left 4 Dead 2's Dark Carnival campaign is set almost entirely in a carnival, and the overlying style of the music matches it accordingly. Peanut Gallery Music while not exactly "creepy" It's just kinda weird. When powering up a Merry-Go-Round (and alerting a horde of zombies) to get through to the other side of the carousel, the song that it starts playing is stereotypical creepy carnival music that's very slow-paced and ominous-sounding. Makes you question how well it did back when the carnival was still actually in operation. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: In addition to the aforementioned "Child's Song", the series also has Mystic Cave Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Carnival Night Zone from Sonic 3 & Knuckles, which both also use the prototypical circus music "Entrance of the Gladiators". Doesn't sound so creepy, until you get to that Guide Dang It! part in Carnival Night where many players were trapped until they Game-Overed. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 uses a circus-esque theme for its boss music. It's not exactly creepy, but it certainly sounds deranged. Shadow the Hedgehog uses an upbeat variation of this theme for Circus Park. |
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An early hint that something really weird is going on in Full Tilt is "the sound of calliope music and screams." | |
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The recurring number "Dream" from Mysterious Girlfriend X is definitely inspired by this. | |
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The Carousel Trap music in Saw VI. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: There is a music box house in Ikana Valley which constantly plays circus music to keep away the undead... successfully. This song is similar to the one in Super Mario 64. Another possible example is the Song of Storms. |
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The music that is emitted from the run down floats in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two's Floatyard, creatively named "Floats" in the soundtrack, definitely fits this trope, though the area itself is on par with Mickeyjunk Mountain for being both Down in the Dumps and creepily nostalgic. | |
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Batman (1989): "Waltz to the Death", by Danny Elfman, is The Joker's Leitmotif. The theme actually sounds more like something from the 19th century (think Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite), but it's played on rather loud horns that remind one of a circus band; and while it's not very creepy in itself, the two scenes during which it's played certainly are (the Joker gleefully shooting a man several times and the Joker forcing the film's Damsel in Distress to dance with him - at gunpoint - atop Gotham City's cathedral). | |
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Team Fortress 2 has "Misfortune Teller", used in main menu startup music for the Scream Fortress 2014 update. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The episode "Party of One" has snippets of ominous circus music playing during Pinkie Pie's titular party, when she starts talking to inanimate objects...and they start talking back. Yikes. Discord has an especially sinister version of this trope as his leitmotif. To top it all off, they sound almost exactly alike in places. |
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Doctor Who uses this to great effect in the Seventh Doctor story "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy". It's just similar enough to some well-known circus tunes to be off-putting, seems to come from nowhere inside the circus tent, plays during some of the most surreal and creepy scenes in the story, is used to drown out a young woman's screams, and is just catchy enough to stay in your head... | |
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Diablo Swing Orchestra has dabbled in this a couple times, as well as pretty much everything else. | |
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The vocaloid fanfic Rotting Camellias has this playing in its Circus of Fear. | |
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YouTube composers Derek & Brandon Fiechter have a whole series of this type of music, and most of the songs are even labelled word-for-word as "Creepy Circus Music". Look here. However, they also wrote a song called "Circus Performers", a joyful song that completely averts this trope and is instead labelled as simply "Circus Music". It's still placed in their "Halloween Music" playlist, though, probably to keep it together with the creepy circus music. | |
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The Human League's "Circus of Death". | |
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Mad Rat Dead: "Stilton," the song used for Stage 3-2: A Strange Full Moon, begins with this game's characteristic Electroswing but transitions into echoing calliope music in a minor key about halfway though. As it maintains a House Music beat, however, it is technically still Electroswing. | |
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Klonoa: Facade & Blade, Joka's battle theme from Door to Phantomile starts out with this type of music, but quickly switches to dark, techno-ish music. This is symbolic of Joka going from being incompetent and buffoonish to being a full-fledged Monster Clown. The boss theme for Leptio the Flower Clown from Lunatea's Veil also qualifies. Creepy Circus Music plays in Empire of Dreams in the cutscene before each boss battle, except for the Final Boss. |
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The theme music from The Elephant Man, especially the unused Belgian Circus track. | |
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The mobile version of Fallen London has very distorted, very creepy circus music that plays in Mrs. Plenty's Carnival. | |
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From Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, the Circus Park night theme, Odd March— which itself is a remix of "Child's Song", the Speed Slider boss theme from Knuckles Chaotix. Both songs were created by Mariko Nanba, who also composed the "Circus Park" theme from Shadow the Hedgehog. | |
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Blood (1997) uses this sort of music, titled Dark Carnival on the soundtrack, for its circus levels. The sounds of barkers and children throughout make it even creepier. | |
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In Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, a Haunted House's Hall of Mirrors play this. | |
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Gyo: Towards the end of the story, the main character stumbles into a Circus of Fear where the insane ringmaster is directing a show performed by infected people and animals. There's also an orchestra of infected monster clowns that play an eerie tune, and the ringmaster points out that they aren't playing the instruments, but only blowing the virus gas into them which comes out as otherworldly music on its own. The ringmaster believes it's a "march from another world", that the gas is sentient and is communicating and directing all the infected circus artists, since they move along with its rhythm. Sadly the OVA downplays this scene a lot and the creepy circus music is rather bland. | |
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The Cog Is Dead has "The Circus of Clowns," a song about a Circus of Fear containing several Monster Clowns. The tune prominently features a creepy music box melody and a swingy chorus. | |
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Family Guy: Parodied in "Stewie Loves Lois", in which Peter, who thinks he's been raped by Dr. Hartman after simply being given a prostate exam, embellishes his recollection of the exam in question to include the doctor laughing in a pitched-down voice and riding a carousel with a calliope playing "Over The Waves" slowed down. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z, several of Majin Buu's themes in the Funimation score have circus motifs, which totally fits the childishly deranged and pretty unsettlingly nature of the Manchild Humanoid Abomination. | |
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Shadow the Hedgehog uses an upbeat variation of this theme for Circus Park. | |
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Logan's Run uses something quite similar to this in the carousel sequences. Not exactly creepy circus music, but definitely demented circus music. | |
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"Waltz of the Lazy Chair" from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness could be seen as an example. | |
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The Wander over Yonder episode "The Heebie Jeebies" makes liberal use of spooky-sounding calliope music due to the Monster of the Week being a troupe of Phantom Mimes, and it livens the genre up with threatening and booming drumbeats during more intense moments. | |
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In The Batman, Joker's Leitmotif is an eerie tune played on a distorted circusy-sounding organ. In some parts, it even sounds a bit like Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor! | |
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Gargamel's Ghoulliope, which shows up at Laconia and Woody's wedding in The Smurfs (1981) cartoon special "Smurfily Ever After". | |
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Assassins opens with a corny circus waltz arrangement of "Hail to the Chief" as the curtain rises on a shooting gallery of American presidents. | |
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Mighty Max: Shows up in the beginning of the "Clown Without Pity" episode. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas has some pretty intense carnival-esque music as Oogie Boogie sics his casino-themed deathtraps on Jack. | |
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