When the composer of the original film is credited for the "Main Title" of the original film in the song credits of a remake, is that a "Theme By" credit?

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010):

"Main Title" and "Jump Rope" from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Written By Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein = "Theme By" ?

Quoting hal9g:

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Looks like a songwriter credit to me.

No, they can't ever be "song writer" credits, since that's only to be used for original songs, written especially for the movie. Since they were written for a previous movie, they're not original anymore, meaning they cannot qualify for "song writer" again when the songs are re-used in a remake.

Common sense tells me it's theme, but the wording tells me some users won't like it.

Your "Theme by" interpretation is the Music credit, which could match best, but without the wording, I wouldn't add it.
But I'm not a specialist in what is making something to a "Theme" and who would get "Theme by" job in DVDP.

The Composer of the Score is Steve Jablonsky and I think he re-used many titles of the older Nightmare on Elm's Street movies.

A bit off-topic, some nice pic of the Score recording:
http://www.scoringsessions.com/news/216/

Quoting bigdaddyhorse:

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Common sense tells me it's theme, but the wording tells me some users won't like it.

Agreed.  I wouldn't vote No to this being submitted under Theme, but I'm pretty sure some would.

Sequels, Prequels and/or Movies based on Television Series (or the other way around TV Series based on movies) use and re-use regularly Themes of their predecessors. So ouf course we use the "Theme By" credit in such a case. It would be meaningless to ask for a new original Theme for every movie, as this completely contradicts the purpose of a Theme.

So Charles Bernstein gets a "Theme By" credit for Nightmare 2010, same as Alexander Courage gets the credit for the original Star Trek Theme re-used in Trek 2009, or Jerry Goldsmith for the re-used TNG Theme (first used some ten years earlier in Trek 1979).

"Theme [insert additional information] Written by" is a Theme credit for obvious movie connections. Of course you have to think twice, if some spoof would use Themes from spoofed movies and give credit for those. Personally I would never include those credits, but until now I haven't thought about what I should vote in such a case. I don't see anything in the Contribution Rules, that would forbid the inclusion of such credits, so the proper vote seems to be "Yes", even if I feel very uncomfortable with that.

Here are the details for the original soundtrack of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Check out the track listing of the first CD listed (Colosseum VSD (CVS) 47255)

I used to own this CD. There are no songs on this soundtrack. It contains selections from the film scores of Part I by Charles Bernstein and Part II by Christopher Young.

Both Main Title and Jump rope are themes. For me, a Theme by credit would work.