
Peter even lampshaded it in an interview at the time, saying that his rule of thumb while composing the soundtrack was "When in doubt, Drone." Peter Gabriel's soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ had a lot of this.The theme for the Emperor becomes very creepy due to the droning chorus.The ominous drones denoting the presence of evil spirits in The Evil Dead (1981).The use of a crescendo-going ominous drone in the very first seconds of There Will Be Blood quickly established the strange nature of the movie.The political/sociological documentary The Power of Nightmares borrows from The Thing's soundtrack.

John's Carpenter's The Thing (1982) makes heavy use of minimalist drones to evoke apocalyptic dread.In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a terror-inducing droning sound plays in the background whenever the T-1000 makes an appearance.In The Terminator, a frightful metallic-sounding droning theme plays as the Terminator prepares to shoot Sarah Connor in the night club.(It was actually achieved by heavily sawing on the D note on a cello.) In The Dark Knight, the Joker's leitmotif is a dissonant droning which sounds like running a razor across a piano string.Antichrist: With the exception of Händel's "Lascia ch'io pianga", used in the prologue and conclusion, the soundtrack consists entirely of drones.

