Danny Boyle’s 2002 film 28 Years Later heralded a veritable zombie renaissance. With a guerrilla-like handheld style, its relentless violence and deep-rooted melancholy, the film revived the entire genre from the undead for years to come. A crucial element of this success was the movie’s groundbreaking soundtrack. The score was noisy and unnerving as the lonely main character roams through a deserted London or gentle and melodic as all hell breaks loose in an old English mansion. It’s contradictions like these that have made 28 Days Later an iconic piece of horror cinema even today. A no less successful soundtrack…
“Nosferatu” by Robin Carolan
The main reason why I wanted to have Robert Eggers’ latest work Nosferatu on my blog is the arresting logo design by Teddy Blanks. This US graphic designer, who has previously collaborated with Eggers on his 2019 maritime horror film The Lighthouse, has created a haunting gothic font that I could hardly take my eyes off. It’s so menacing and seductively dark and I feel a whole lot of emotions just by looking at it. But that’s no surprise, as Blanks is a household name in Hollywood with well over a hundred titles under his belt. This guy knows exactly…
“Leave the World Behind” by Mac Quayle
For quite some time now, it has almost been a kind of weird tradition for Netflix to release a post-apocalyptic end-of-the-world movie around Christmas time. Somehow the executives there have this strange opinion that this particular film genre would be the perfect match for the cozy and cheerful winter holidays. You’d only have to look back over the last few years. In 2018 there was the woefully underwhelming, but very successful horror thriller Bird Box, directed by highly acclaimed Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier. Or the almost single-handedly made – and unfortunately botched – George Clooney flick The Midnight Sky from…
“Waves” by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
A rather small entry for one of Trent Reznor’s and Atticus Ross’ most abstract and deconstructed works as of late, their score for the 2019 film Waves, directed by Trey Edward Shults, known for his previous work on It Comes at Night. I decided to tackle this score when I found out that on the digital release each track was embedded with unique artwork – a feat that has been pulled off on several of Trent Reznor’s releases, such as the Nine Inch Nails instrumental album Ghosts I-IV, or the debut album Welcome Oblivion of his side project How To Destroy Angels….
“The Fall” by Krishna Levy
Alovely little collection for Krishna Levy’s 2006 score for Tarsem Singh’s epic The Fall. Sadly, the score was never released, only a handful of tracks can be found on a composer’s compilation from 2013, which doesn’t do the score, and more importantly the movie, any justice. I had collected some high-resolution source images and wanted to design a correspondingly high-quality cover artwork that I could use for my own digital music collection, particularly for the Ludwig van Beethoven composition Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 – II, Allegretto. A timeless masterpiece in its own right, which has been given appropriate…





