tracks

The Spider And The Fly
Prelude
Frenetic Spirits
The Estate
Disturbances
Escape
Emma And Johnny
Finding The letter
The Seance
The Neighbors
Raven
Souls Rising
Revelation
Unearthing The Past
Daniel Returns
Back To The House
Chaos Before The Storm
The Fifth Nail
The Final Sacrifice
I Am Home: Finale

notes

Screamworks Records proudly presents one of the most impressive genre scores we’ve heard recently: the large orchestral score for the original Chiller movie, Dead Souls, an adaptation of the Michael Laimo novel starring Bill Moseley and Jesse James. Composers Matthew Llewellyn and Jonathan Bartz (both scoring team members on several Brian Tyler scores including The Expendables 2 and Final Destination 5) has created a wonderfully old-school horror score that pays tribute, above all, to Bernard Herrmann but also more modern scoring icons such as Alan Silvestri (the action writing) and John Williams (the romantic material).

Featuring an exquisite performance by the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra conducted by film music veteran Allan Wilson, the score is filled with exciting setpieces and a refreshingly straight-forward approach to the on-screen action. Llewellyn and Bartz never resort to the now so common middle of the road aleatoric techniques in this score; music remains highly interesting and entertaining throughout and sometimes truly complex harmonically (‘Unearthing the Past’ a highlight in this respect).

Album: (c)2012 MovieScore Media Sweden. Recordings: (p)2012 Synthetic Entertainment LLC. Artwork: (c)2012 Chiller Publishing: SyntheticEntertainment LLC (BMI). All rights reserved.

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