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JOHN SCOTT talks about WAKE IN FRIGHT for a spectacular 4K restoration!
It’s time to at last go insane down under with the unforgettable WAKE IN FRIGHT! Canadian director Ted Kocheff’s extreme Aussie classic is now searingly restored in several astonishing versions from Umbrella Entertainment by producer Mark Hartley, with the extras featuring my audio interview with the great English composer JOHN SCOTT on creating his haunting,…
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Rocking out with the zombie metalheads of John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS on 4K
Out now from Scream Factory! Get pierced by the metalheads of John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS HERE on 4K, with my Ballyhoo Motion Pictures segment “Assault On Outpost 13” looking at the director’s most barbarically rocking score of all in the company of Anthrax and Buckethead!
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JAY WADLEY scores a bloody valentine for the meet cute slasher HEART EYES
In the fine tradition of “My Bloody Valentine’s” heart-ripping miner and “Valentine’s” Cupid-faced killer, not to mention “Scream’s” Evard Munch-styled slasher with a sense of gallows humor, the glowing “Heart Eyes” joins a list of love-hating masked maniacs with a weapon to grind against the holiday – in this very agile case pointed arrows, martial…
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ANTONIO PINTO pilots FLIGHT RISK on a new Film Music Live!
Let ANTONIO PINTO (City of God, Collateral, Mosquito Coast) be your pilot on a new Film Music Live videocast as he talks about his suspenseful score to Mel Gibson’s FLIGHT RISK and the future shock requiem in the year 2073. It’s an in depth look on what it takes to keep aloft for the acclaimed…
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ZACK RYAN makes his musically haunting PRESENCE known
Composer Zack Ryan (photo by Chris Violette) There’s an omniscient symphonic entity haunting “Presence” that powers filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s Steadicam spook, and it’s not what you’d expect – especially given a lower budget that has to rely on acting and atmosphere as opposed to “Haunted Mansion”-level effects. Yet within walls where an intimate approach would…
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Dig Deep into SILO and go for a dark ride with ON CALL along with composer ATLI ÖRVARSSON on a new Film Music Live!
Dig dip into a new Film Music Live videocast as composer ATLI ÖRVARSSON peels back the post apocalyptic layers on his scoring for Apple TV +’s SILO as it reaches its second season crescendo Friday, then take the call for this dark ride along approach for the world of DIck Wolf with Amazon Prime VIdeo’s ON CALL.…
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Lorenz Dangel breaks into the Olympic telecast to score the terror of “September 5”
Few audiences of a certain generation eager to tune into the glory and human spirit of Munich’s Olympic Games won’t soon forget having their feel-good viewing interrupted by real world evil as media-savvy Palestinian terrorists lethally took an Israeli weightlifting team hostage. Where these tragic events have been covered by Hollywood before as both re-enactments…
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The Best Scores of 2024
Read my Onthescore.com list of the Best Film Scores of 2024! From the top picks to the runners up’s and the composers to watch, it’s your guide to an impressively diverse year of movie music, as led by The Wild Robot and In the Land of Saints and Sinners! THE BEST FILM SCORES OF…
