House joins the surprisingly short list of films that features a film composer among its characters. Unfortunately, although this character (simply called “Father”) is said by an unnamed Italian director to be better than Morricone, he plays a minor role. […]
Editor’s Note: This article isn’t intended to collate the most obscure horror scores around. Instead, it’s meant to offer a mix of ones you may have heard of (or probably have) with ones you likely haven’t. After all, we don’t […]
Michael Price joins The Film Scorer for episode 2 of season 3! You might be most familiar with Michael Price (at least I was) from his work with David Arnold on the acclaimed and excellent Sherlock and Dracula series, both […]
The year keeps going strong with yet another month full of great film scores. One of the best scores of the year is the genre-transcendent Nope from Michael Abels, and even though I’m covering the month of July, there are […]
Season three of The Film Scorer Podcast is finally here! Joining me is legendary musician and composer Cosey Fanni Tutti. Film music fans may not be quite as familiar with Cosey, who’s best known for being a founding member of […]
Men marks the third film collaboration between director Alex Garland and composing duo Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury. As with their prior projects, Ex Machina and Annihilation, it has a riveting, unorthodox score. The film begins with Harper (played by […]
Musical Nasties is a series of articles exploring the music of cinema’s most salacious fare. From video nasties of the ‘80s, to classic Italian gialli and schlock, to contemporary cult cinema, we aim to celebrate our favorite genre movies, their […]
It’s safe to say that Alex G’s score for We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is my favorite score release of the year. He brings a sense of inevitable melancholy to the film, a potentially inevitable dark fate. And […]
As far as this column is concerned, we’re now halfway through the year! At this point, it’s hard to say whether any clear standouts have shown themselves as the “best of the year,” but there have been a lot that […]
The very first notes of The Black Phone let us know that this won’t quite be your typical Mark Korven score. An ugly, noisy synth melody plays, backed by grating roars and shrieking noise, all while we watch a montage […]
With the season 3 premiere right around the corner, we’ve decided to drop an interview to tease your appetite. Dominic Lewis (Violent Night, The King’s Man) joins The Film Scorer to talk about his new score to the hit action film […]
Author’s note: For the purposes of this write up, I will be focusing on the film’s original score by Michael Abels and not the additional songs on the soundtrack (although they are great). This review is spoiler-free. After shocking audiences […]