Me too. I saw his credit at the very end of the End Credits and wondered when it had been used during the film. Although I do find myself stopping paying any attention to scores these days while watching 90% of films (something I NEVER DID during my earlier days of film watching/score listening).
I guess there's a limit to how much ambience and droning one can bother tuning in for. I'm just so grateful I had my time when I did.
Me too. I saw his credit at the very end of the End Credits and wondered when it had been used during the film. Although I do find myself stopping paying any attention to scores these days while watching 90% of films (something I NEVER DID during my earlier days of film watching/score listening).
I guess there's a limit to how much ambience and droning one can bother tuning in for. I'm just so grateful I had my time when I did.
Sign of the times and all that
Yeah, right there with you. Watching the movie, I just kept mentally adding in Silvestri's original score into the key scenes. Even without using Silvestri's melodies, which are decidedly out these days, his action rhythms could have easily been deployed and still fit in with the current culture (of bad film music).
Me too. I saw his credit at the very end of the End Credits and wondered when it had been used during the film. Although I do find myself stopping paying any attention to scores these days while watching 90% of films (something I NEVER DID during my earlier days of film watching/score listening).
I guess there's a limit to how much ambience and droning one can bother tuning in for. I'm just so grateful I had my time when I did.
Sign of the times and all that
Yeah, right there with you. Watching the movie, I just kept mentally adding in Silvestri's original score into the key scenes. Even without using Silvestri's melodies, which are decidedly out these days, his action rhythms could have easily been deployed and still fit in with the current culture (of bad film music).
I've been working on a concept suite with music that I heard in my head. The low strings actually quote Silvestri's Main Theme but I slowed it down and provided Stravinskyian like wind figures over it. The second half is admittedly more Cheyenne Autumn Alex North than Silvestri.. it probably wouldn't have worked in a 2022 film but I'm old and those are my influences...
Wow, David, that's better than most new scores I hear programmed today. Love those wild flutes...put me in mind of Goldsmith's CHAIRMAN at times. Shame you didn't get the gig.
Wow, David, that's better than most new scores I hear programmed today. Love those wild flutes...put me in mind of Goldsmith's CHAIRMAN at times. Shame you didn't get the gig.
Thanks Kev! I'm continuing with this suite and now that I've seen the film I have some more ideas.
I've worked on a couple of RPG scores but nothing big enough to garner attention from Hollyweird.
While I totally agree with Erik, I don't blame Schachner. Where video games and roll-playing games often allow a broader musical canvas, film and TV have become a wasteland for restrained efforts even if the composer wants to go balls the wall with creative ideas.
As part of huge and very comprehensive coverage of PREY, I have provided an in-depth review of Sarah Schachner's evocative and beautiful score.
I pinpoint the Silvestri homage, which occurs in the first track Predator Instinct, and appears in the movie as the title makes it's appearance. Plus, I discover a motif in the final track that bugged me for a couple of days because I knew I'd heard something very similar before ...
Oh, and there is a huge movie review and even a full-length commentary I did. Yep, overkill. But this was my most anticipated and longed-for movie this year.
As part of huge and very comprehensive coverage of PREY, I have provided an in-depth review of Sarah Schachner's evocative and beautiful score.
I pinpoint the Silvestri homage, which occurs in the first track Predator Instinct, and appears in the movie as the title makes it's appearance. Plus, I discover a motif in the final track that bugged me for a couple of days because I knew I'd heard something very similar before ...
Oh, and there is a huge movie review and even a full-length commentary I did. Yep, overkill. But this was my most anticipated and longed-for movie this year.
Cheers Chris Kilt-Man
I love your enthusiasm, man, keep it up, it's infectious!
I've been working on a concept suite with music that I heard in my head. The low strings actually quote Silvestri's Main Theme but I slowed it down and provided Stravinskyian like wind figures over it. The second half is admittedly more Cheyenne Autumn Alex North than Silvestri.. it probably wouldn't have worked in a 2022 film but I'm old and those are my influences...
Pretty good.
There is also some nice stuff to be found in the ALIENS: Fireteam third-person shooter. Some of the music has some PREDATOR genes in there, whether it intended to or not (which is quite fine).
I've been working on a concept suite with music that I heard in my head. The low strings actually quote Silvestri's Main Theme but I slowed it down and provided Stravinskyian like wind figures over it. The second half is admittedly more Cheyenne Autumn Alex North than Silvestri.. it probably wouldn't have worked in a 2022 film but I'm old and those are my influences...
Pretty good.
There is also some nice stuff to be found in the ALIENS: Fireteam third-person shooter. Some of the music has some PREDATOR genes in there, whether it intended to or not (which is quite fine).
As part of huge and very comprehensive coverage of PREY, I have provided an in-depth review of Sarah Schachner's evocative and beautiful score.
I pinpoint the Silvestri homage, which occurs in the first track Predator Instinct, and appears in the movie as the title makes it's appearance. Plus, I discover a motif in the final track that bugged me for a couple of days because I knew I'd heard something very similar before ...
Oh, and there is a huge movie review and even a full-length commentary I did. Yep, overkill. But this was my most anticipated and longed-for movie this year.
Cheers Chris Kilt-Man
I love your enthusiasm, man, keep it up, it's infectious!
A short while into watching the grand and surprising elegant creature picture ‘Prey’, I uttered, ‘I feel like I was just there’.
Turns out, I was.
This splendid origin story and prequel to the 1987 ‘Arnie’ action picture ‘Predator’ which spawned a minor film franchise was filmed in Alberta in the Kananaskis Provincial Park. A region I had just passed through a few weeks ago. We even stopped there to take some vivid shots (which I haven’t yet published).
‘Prey’ took me by surprise in other ways. Firstly, it works on several levels quite uncommon to the alien and horror genre. It begins quietly as a tale of the Great Northern Plains Commanche peoples in the year 1719. While there are immediate hints at something a little more menacing than cougars and bears, the film takes it’s time revealing the full nature of the otherworldly threat. The entire first half of the film gives us the gripping story of a young ‘indigenius’ girl, wonderful played by the ferocious Amber Midthunder, as she overcomes the prejudices within her tribe over women being warriors and hunters. The nasty warrior from outer space is revealed gradually in spurts and starts as the picture unfolds. There are encounters in this film - which to reveal - would harm your enjoyment, so I’ll refrain.
Let is suffice to say that the last half is a tour de force of action film-making and that the whole thing is rendered so beautifully and tastefully that it had me completely enthralled. Even the dynamic fight scenes are staged in a manner which suggests reality. Only the Predator itself has any kind of (rightfully) super-HUMAN abilities, while the Comanche protagonists and particularly the girl use their wits and physical prowess to overcome the beast - but never step over into sequences that come off as unrealistic.This is a testament to the film-makers and particularly director Dan Trachtenburg (’10 Cloverfield Lane’, ‘Black Mirror’) that the story never tips over into CGI cluttered action-overkill.
For a ‘Predator’ movie, this film is (shockingly) stately. It is restrained and filled with nuances reflecting frontier life, the lives of the Comanche nation and great little bits involving various wildlife. The cinematography is gorgeous (there is virtually only natural lighting via torches and campfires in the night scenes) and ‘Prey’ contains a lovely ecological message while never becoming too preachy. A word must be said about the music. Video game-composer Sara Schachner has done a splendid job in one of her first feature films. She will be a name to watch for in film music.
‘Prey’ succeeds because of the good taste exercised by all concerned. It’s really hard to make a picture like this without it seeming ‘hokey’ or going well over-the-top. Not once did I not believe what I was seeing. ‘Prey’ is a great film.
The direct-to-Hulu release of “Prey,” the action-thriller prequel to “Predator,” notched the most viewing hours ever on the Disney-owned streamer in its first three days — among all TV series and movies.
That would mean “Prey” had a bigger aggregate viewing-time total over three days than “The Kardashians,” which Hulu in April said was its biggest TV series premiere at the time.
Disney decided to forgo a theatrical release for 20th Century Studios’ “Prey,” which premiered Aug. 5 on on Hulu in the U.S., as well as on Disney’s Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ under the Star banner in all other territories.
Disney said “Prey” also was the most-watched film premiere on Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ under the Star banner.
Importantly it's doing well in international markets as well, which is a major emphasis for Disney. Congrats to the creative team.
Loved the film, the score had some really nice highlights, especially during the "travel montage" towards the beginning.
The score in the last half of the film lost me though, relying too heavily on sound design tricks and sounding more modern and jarring than I would have liked--it took me out of the action a few times.
Overall, great film, decent (better than I was expecting) score.
