Sorry spook, but glad you're still diggin it. I love me some horror generally, but have become a bit burned out by the whole new generation of post-Ring shaky ghosts. It coulda been the mood I was in, but I did really wanna like it! For the record, the mate I watched it with loved it, so there's that. I really liked QUIET PLACE, so you can p!ss on my chips tomorrow if you don't like it
Good topic spook, but as a die hard "horror got me into this score mess in the first place" type, I can't even follow the genre anymore. It's just a lazy pathetic shadow of what drew me in. I could drop 50 scores from the 30's to the 80's that were creative and versatile as hell. Now it's just clang shock chord droning Penderecki riffs every time. Even the recent, praised gems that show up are only a shadow of that golden run the genre has IMO.
This Ilfman thing probably has a nice piano string theme and gloomy minor mode suspense and standard action bits. No surprises anymore...I'll go play Sarde's GHOST STORY instead...
Sorry spook, but glad you're still diggin it. I love me some horror generally, but have become a bit burned out by the whole new generation of post-Ring shaky ghosts. It coulda been the mood I was in, but I did really wanna like it! For the record, the mate I watched it with loved it, so there's that. I really liked QUIET PLACE, so you can p!ss on my chips tomorrow if you don't like it
Wow..that was some film!! Now THATS how you do a tension movie. I was nearly clawing up the cinema chair at some part! Great stuff! Really like the score as well. I think it's been getting a bit of flack round here but I'll be picking it up. I don't love all of Marco's horror scoring but I thought this was a good balance.
