Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . The Woods is John Frizzell’s latest horror score, and in this conversational interview, the composer discusses the unique relationship between experimental composition and the sounds that consistently make us uneasy, paranoid, or have us turning on all the lights when watching a horror film. Frizzell’s large-scale orchestral […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Following the completion of the horror film Stay Alive, John Frizzell shifted from that score’s more experimental,aleatoric style to a fusion of more accessible action-suspense music for Primeval. Like his prior scores, however, nothing’s conventional in John Frizzell’s latest score, which incorporates traditional African music supervised & […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . For his feature film directorial debut, Scott Stewart hired John Frizzell to compose the music for Legion (2010), and while it’s ostensibly a theological thriller, the music goes against the grain and contains few of the familiar stylistic approaches of the sub-genre. There are chorales and a […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . With the 2006 release of Columbia’s remake of the underrated 1979 cult film, When a Stranger Calls, composer James Michael Dooley has taken another step in furthering a solo career, amid his continuing involvement in high profile projects with Hans Zimmer, such as the recent film adaptation of The […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Although Elia Cmiral continues to score a diverse mix of films – his recent work include Bluebeard for director Kevin Connor, and While the Children Sleep for Russell Mulcahy – the composer has been very busy writing distinctive, chilling music for several horror films. Alongside career highpoints such as Wrong […]
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