It's a killer premise and has an even
better synth score that would put «Stranger Things» to shame.
Not exact matches
But those whale - sounding
synths recall in fits Arrival's
score, and by association how much
better that film handled a story with open - ended questions; also, how confident you felt its mysteries were by design, and how its open - endedness encouraged the audience to range and ruminate.
The Guest Blu - ray — One of the
best Halloween - themed John Carpenter movies that John Carpenter never made, The Guest was the most badass movie of 2014, the only one with the balls to feature some prominent Halloween III Silver Shamrock imagery amid the pounding
synth score and carnage of the mysterious stranger who comes trick or treating.
The accompanying Dolby 2.0 Surround audio is hushed at reference volume but responds
well to amplification; Barry DeVorzon's
synth score has some nice stereo imaging, but the whole thing sounds a little damp.
Each suffocating second of
Good Time, blistered by the neon backgrounds of Queens, New York and propelled by warped heartbeat of Oneothrix Point Never's
synth score, finds Connie evading authorities by tripping into an even stickier situation.
Just as Goblin was key to the success of Argento's
best work, Simon Boswell's
synth / electronica
score for StageFright is, apart from Soavi's visuals and film - smarts, the movie's MVP, and it's given full breadth in a dynamic lossless presentation.
The late and seriously under - appreciated composer Michael Small wrote one of his
best scores for the film, providing some stirring symphonic passages and atmospheric
synth material.
While referencing 80s
synth scores is all the cool millennial rage now, it's also nice to see their soundtrack tastes can go way back as
well to the 50's and 60's singing and dancing days of George and Ira Gershwin and Michel Legrand, as embodied by the composing - directing partnership of Justin Hurwitz and Damien Chazelle.
«Eating» is the film's most notorious sequence, and was I imagine very hard to
score well, but Howard did so, musically conveying a range of emotions, using
synth pan flutes to provide the inevitable, effective awkward feeling underpinning the longing and desire represented by the flute and violin parts.
Nicholas Winding Refn's Drive is a gloriously brutal love letter to action movies of the 70's, featuring a lead character that doesn't even have a name, a fantastic
synth - pop
score and soundtrack and very
well stage action set pieces.
Assisted with a
synth score straight out of the»80s, and led by one of the
best lead performances of the year (Michael C. Hall), Mickle's film swerves from left to right, going from one dastardly deed to another.
Giving the crime movie a
well - deserved amphetamine - kick up the backside, Nicolas Winding Refn's «Drive» (about a getaway driver, Ryan Gosling, who becomes unexpectedly involved in the life of his beautiful neighbor Carey Mulligan) wasn't original in its separate elements: virtually every plot beat had been deployed somewhere before, and its neon - lit,
synth -
scored aesthetic called back to classic Michael Mann, Walter Hill and William Friedkin pictures of the»70s and»80s.
Backed up by a mesmerising
synth score composed by Disasterpeace, Fez is the brainchild of passionate game developer Phil Fish who through 5 tortuous years fine tuned one of 2012's most
well received games, solidifying it as one of the
best 2D platformers.