This project began a good few years ago when I first saw the 1978 Sam Raimi Super-8 short film Within The Woods. This was a prototype film, made in order to raise funds for the later feature The Evil Dead. Like many of Sam's Super-8 films, it was scored using music taken from other motion picture scores, and I recognized immediately one or two of the music tracks upon first seeing it.

I decided to try and identify all the tracks and edit a complete score. I took the standard 'Sam Raimi Super-8 shorts' DVD, and copied the audio track from Within The Woods to my hard drive. I then used Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 to edit every single piece of music used, into it's own individual sample file breaking it down into 31 tracks. Then I gave each track it's own listing in an index text file. Approaching the project from this angle meant that nothing could be missed, if I still had unidentified tracks left at the end, then I knew hadn't identified everything, and I had a sample of exactly what I was.

Having got as far as I have, I now know that the film borrows heavily from two scores; Michael Winner's 1974 film Death Wish (composed by Herbie Hancock), and Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (composed by Denny Zeitlin), but also draws from a number of other diverse films such as On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Deadly Mantis, Jaws, Sorcerer, and The Eyes Of Laura Mars, as well as a couple of disco songs by artists Rickie Lee Jones, and Sister Sledge, and even a track from Prog rock group Jade Warrior.

This was not a project that lent itself to active completion, mearly passively waiting until I recognized a new tracks. The project was finally completed in August 2011, when the final two tracks were identified. This project also has it's own page in the Within The Woods section of my Evil Dead fansite; 'Book Of The Dead', with full track listings, which you can see Here. You can see the complete list of the tracks below. The version of Within The Woods which the tracks have been synced up to is taken from the generally available 'Sam Raimi Short Films' bootleg DVD, which is NTSC at 29.97fps with a total running time of 30mins 41secs. No CD covers or disc artwork was ever made for this project, as it was only a pet project intended to be listened to as an MP3 album, although I may create some in the future. Should you wish to track the full list of titles down, it's worth noting that a number of these cues such the ones taken from The Eyes Of Laura Mars, have never been released on CD and were only ever available on LP records. Others may be available, but quite expensive to buy. If you're interested in any of my fanmade projects, you can contact me via email at , or through the Rob's Nostalgia Projects Facebook page. Check out & 'like' that Facebook page to see the latest in-progress updates to any current projects, and check out my Wants List to see if you can assist me with any future projects or upgrades.