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Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

~Christopher Young

Topics: Alive Bills Films Good Helped Historically Horror Horror Films Initial Investments Kept Line New Nightmare Pay Series Shown Splash Street Survive Universal 1930S

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Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

~Christopher Young

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I'm into horror pictures because I love the fear of being alone in the dark, and I'd recommend that to any composer who wants to work in this genre.

~Christopher Young

Topics: Alone Any Because Being Being Alone Composer Dark Fear Genre Horror Love Pictures Recommend Wants Who Work I Love

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When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

~Christopher Young

Topics: Afraid Come Driving Evening Films Horror Horror Films Just Lose Make Me Middle Moon Myself Nowhere Part Point Skin Spending Tap Time Touch Up Will Wind Working Younger Your

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As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.

~Christopher Young

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In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out of the room with their fingers in their ears. But in a movie, all of a sudden it becomes incredibly accessible and appreciated.

~Christopher Young

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People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved - privately. It's the forbidden evil working behind the curtain. My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent.

~Christopher Young

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'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

~Christopher Young

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I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.'

~Christopher Young

Topics: Another Been Care Ensemble Entering Established Film God Horror Horror Film How Introduce Inventive Like Movie Oh Oh God Once Over Repeated Spooky Strings Thoroughly Tradition Use Where World Years You

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'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid that. The minute you have strings as your primary voice, the comparisons are always made.

~Christopher Young

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: April 28th, 1958

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