Sean Wilson, writing for Den of Geek!, recently considered “The 15 greatest John Williams scores you’ve forgotten about,” and ranked Williams’ score of the 1970 screen adaptation of Jane Eyre as the composer’s most underrated score . . . with his 1987 score to the film version of John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick coming in a close second.

“Another aspect of Williams’ musical personality that’s easy to underrate is his wicked sense of humor,” Wilson writes. “His folk-inspired, flighty and darkly comic score for George Miller’s outrageous John Updike adaptation so perfectly captures the whimsical menace of Jack Nicholson’s Satan that it’s hard to imagine the movie without it. It’s Danny Elfman before the latter even became famous.”