Composer duo Mondo Boys celebrate their meteoric rise in 2020 by joining The Film Scorer to discuss their recent scores to the films Fatman, She Dies Tomorrow, and Mortuary Collection. Mondo Boys also talk about how they collaborate with directors, the Los Angeles movie theater scene, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Roger Ebert’s love of breasts (among many other things).
More information is available about Mondo Boys on their website.
Fatman is currently available on VOD, She Dies Tomorrow is streaming on Hulu, and Mortuary Collection is streaming on Shudder. Several of Mondo Boys’ scores are available on all major streaming platforms and others are forthcoming.
I also wrote about Mondo Boys’ score for She Dies Tomorrow in my recap of the best scores of August 2020: ” I love getting a visceral, almost involuntary reaction to music, but the experience is a rare one. About two minutes into Mondo Boys’ score for She Dies Tomorrow I felt sick to my stomach. I couldn’t wait to hear the rest. Composed of droning electronics, tortured vocals, pummeling drums, and manipulated samples of Mozart’s Requiem, She Dies Tomorrow is a harrowing, draining experience. It envelopes the listener in crushing despair, sapping them of energy and life. Fortunately, the score runs just under twenty minutes; any longer and the slow-moving requiem would be too much to handle. (I also did a short video talking about this score, which you can find here).”
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