As a huge fan of the novel I always hoped Chris Young would've scored it but after hearing A Cure for Wellness, I think Wallfisch is also a fine choice.
He has been infected by Remote Control-itis in the past few years from his time spent there (I know, it's how the morons want it to sound), but I hold out hope that, like Mark Mancina and John Powell, he can move forward developing his own unique sound and talents. I have some hope for this film being decent, so here's to it working out well for everyone (I saw a still of Pennywise staring out of the storm drain in a mag this week and it gave me chills from my memory of reading the book eons ago).
Let's hope he takes, frankly, the exact same approach that made Richard Bellis' to the original so effective: Emphasizing the broken, pained childhood nostalgia of the protagonists first and foremost, and the horror aspect secondarily.
Good choice, but only if he can leave those terrible Remote Control reverberations alone. They nearly ruined a lot of the big stuff from A Cure for Wellness, making an orchestral score from 2017 sound like a Zimmer brass synth experiment from 1995.
He also seems to play it very safe so there is nothing surprising about any of the music he does. Not a great composer, or even a musician in the Wallfisch tradition, if he continues along this line. Feuerwalschen was getting there but then those silly Zimmer brass sounds came along. Seriously, why would any self respecting composer think he would need a sound that was so out of date in Gladiator? Wallfisch has huge talent, no mistake, but he needs to be braver about his musical choices and not feel constrained by the HZ factory.
1. Every 27 Years (2:36) 2. Paper Boat (1:55) 3. Georgie, Meet Pennywise (3:38) 4. Derry (2:24) 5. River Chase (2:09) 6. Egg Boy (2:44) 7. Beverly (1:20) 8. Come Join The Clown, Eds (1:20) 9. You’ll Float Too (3:20) 10. Shape Shifter (1:42) 11. Hockstetter Attack (2:15) 12. Haircut (4:14) 13. Derry History (2:48) 14. January Embers (1:05) 15. Saving Mike (1:15) 16. This Is Not A Dream (2:08) 17. Slideshow (2:01) 18. Georgie’s Theme (1:42) 19. He Didn’t Stutter Once (1:33) 20. Neibolt Street (4:17) 21. Time To Float (3:04) 22. It’s What It Wants (1:19) 23. You’ll Die If You Try (4:38) 24. Return To Neibolt (2:31) 25. Into The Well (2:05) 26. Pennywise’s Tower (1:48) 27. Deadlights (2:04) 28. Searching For Stanley (2:28) 29. Saving Beverly (3:36) 30. Georgie Found (1:53) 31. Transformation (0:58) 32. Feed On Your Fear (2:34) 33. Welcome To The Losers Club (3:05) 34. Yellow Raincoat (1:43) 35. Blood Oath (3:11) 36. Kiss (0:54) 37. Every 27 Years (Reprise) (2:07) 38. Epilogue – The Pennywise Dance (0:36)
The preorder link is only for the digital album. The LP is also available for preorder, but there isn't any information about a cd release. It is possible that the cd release will be a CD-R, which Water Tower doesn't tend to offer for preorder.
There's no samples yet for this score, I'm unknown to Wallfisch, but i've read good things on here about him + I like horror scores, so maybe I'll pick this up.
What are you talking about? Those two cues are nearly five minutes total. Did you even press play?
Of course I pressed play... I'm interested to listen to I.T.! yes there is now 2 tracks in length that wasn't the case yesterday, Amazon are limited anyhow.. shysters!
