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11-03-2012, 08:03 PM
Original CD release 1987, Composed by Christopher Young, Conducted by Paul Francis Witt
Directed by Clive Barker, Hellraiser (1987) is a grisly but stylish horror fantasy based on Barker's own novel, The Hellbound Heart. The film concerns a dissipated adventurer who buys a magical Oriental music box that grants him access to unheard pleasure and pain. Meanwhile, his brother (Andrew Robinson) and girlfriend (Clare Higgins) have moved into his former house in Britain. Before long, the adventurer returns through the floorboards in a somewhat decomposed state and talks the girlfriend into luring men back into the home, devouring their flesh and blood in order to regain his human form. Though the score begins with melodramatic consonance and Gothic string undertones, Christopher Young's music soon finds something in mankind that is horrifying and latent. Using virtually every post-Wagnerian technique up to and including Scho�nbergian atonal expressionism, the composer ensures that musical values are never eschewed. Isolation without indulgence, dramatic tension without gratuitous effect, and a pervasive sense of evil discovery are the order of the day. Whether it be the intricate weaving of thematic strokes, the sudden rhythmic metamorphoses, or the austere harmonics, Young's vivid hues provide further credence to the film's entertaining horrors. Fiercely guileless throughout, the composer coaxes sounds from the orchestra that perfectly reflect the squeamish horror of the moment. Even when exploring the psychic effects of sheer sound on the central nervous system, Hellraiser always appeals to the higher centres of the listener's intelligence.
Original Release / Silva Screen / FILM CD 021 / CD / FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%)
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