Review of The Day of the Locust

I used to really like this movie and considered it more of horror movie and it did and still does in away scare and creep me out . Unfortunately, seeing it again it's mostly just depressing and not well made . It does have its moments but it is not a good movie. In a way as a defender after all these years it hurts me to say it. But I still think it should be part of film history. A movie to be critized for it's strengths and all of it's weaknesses. It's an important but forgotten film. Just not a good one. Take John Barry's score for instance...... He has never been so far removed. He can take a fair movie and make it good. A bad movie and make it entertaining. With Day of the Locust, John Barry sounds like he just wanted to get out as soon as he could. Take his score for FRANCES. Beautiful, like he spent a whole hour in his shrinks chair smiling but still sad. Day of the Locust... Well he decided just to stay home and play couple of notes waiting for Jessica Kange