Mar 18
Horror is a variable genre when it comes to movie scores. It is a genre in which the most innovative music, the Psychos and the Shinings, sits alongside some of the worst in the industry. If you want to scare people, you can’t give them anything they are expecting, and so it is necessary to …
Oct 22
Raymond Deane Films (www.raymonddeanefilms.com) has recently launched an indiegogo campaign to raise funds to create the first Anti-Bullying Horror Film entitled “Red Head Randy”. All of the money raised will go towards the pre-production, actual production and post production for the film, including the hiring of cast and crew and the purchasing of all …
Jun 11
Last year, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr decided to direct a prequel to the 1982 horror cult favourite, The Thing. Confusingly, he gave this new movie the same title, The Thing. It tells the tragic tale of a bunch of American and Norwegian scientists who discover a shape-shifting alien in the Arctic, which …
Apr 16
Alan Silvestri, fairly well-known for his scores for things like the Back To The Future trilogy and Forest Gump, has his greatest work hidden away in cult treasures like Death Becomes Her, or this little gem that I recently discovered, Identity. Many of the man’s scores are interesting, if formulaic, but this one really grips you …
Oct 31
It’s Halloween, so for me to talk about anything other than a Tim Burton film this week would be almost sacrilegious. Sleepy Hollow is perhaps his best film, and the man responsible for the score is none other than Danny Elfman (who since has scored every other Tim Burton movie, not to mention the theme tune …
Sep 26
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Very few film score motifs, and even fewer that contain just two notes, are as instantly recognisable and universally …
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