Sentences with phrase «synth score»

Many have compared its style to music videos of the 1980s, with its moody synth score by Tangerine Dream lending it a more cinematic atmosphere.

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.

Written and directed by Stefan Avalos (co-creator of the indie breakthrough film, The Last Broadcast), the story of a couple victimized by neighbouring ghosts in an exclusive hilltop community is a narrative jumble, but the film's aided by an effectively moody synth score from Vincent Gillioz.

Beautifully shot in 35 mm by the gifted Ben Richardson (Beasts of the Southern Wild) to a hypnotic synth score by Dan Romer, Digging for Fire goes to the tantalizing edge of revelation and leaves us there to filter what we saw through the prism of our own strengths and weaknesses.

For all of its carefully executed, cool style, soundtracked to a retro synth score and ironic music cuts, «Revenge» is intensely raw, a violent and hallucinatory acid trip for the senses that asserts a feminist perspective in this historically exploitative and misogynistic genre.

Coupled with a moody, edgy, propulsive synth score by Cliff Martinez, the film proves John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein's flair behind the camera with cinematographer Barry Peterson, along with the same snappy editing reminiscient of Edgar Wright's «Three Flavours Cornetto» trilogy.

On top of that, a dizzying synth score completely drowns out all other noises, making these moments feel more fragmented than cohesive.

The «Girls With Guns» films featured strong female leads, usually supported by ineffective or soon - to - be-killed male counterparts, and blended martial arts action with heavy gunplay, usually supported by eye - piercing 80s fashion, heavy synth scores, and lots of explosions in empty warehouses and abandoned construction sites.

For some soundtrack fans, it was a bit of surprise to learn the composer of pioneering synth scores had begun his career with large orchestral scores for John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) and Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal (1982)...

Normally, I'd be thrilled by an»80s - inspired synth score like the one Oneohtrix Point Never provides, but his music is used non-stop in the opening bank robbery and subsequent chase, and it gets to the point where it sounds like the Safdies handed an orangutan its first modular synthesizer, and it just went to town.

«Escape from New York» is a really fun B - movie with some solid set pieces, Carpenter's trademark synth score, and a colorful supporting cast featuring Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanto and Adrienne Barbeau.

The Neon Demon is a totally wicked, totally messed up, neon - drenched study on vanity / narcissism featuring one hell of an exhilarating synth score.

Only the ambient hum of a highly unconventional, effective synth score by The The could count as a standout element of a thriller that otherwise borrows relentlessly from the recent past.

Using a low budget and nonprofessional actors, the film is quietly moving, with a subtle synth score, evocative cinematography and organic, internal performances.

Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.

Let me tell you, the ever - present synth score makes the film even spookier.

But what separates «Mistress America» from Baumbach's other witty and sharp observational works about (what some people see as) White People Problems, is a madcap screwball comedy energy and a nostalgic, all - things - are - possible «80s sheen (bolstered by a fantastic dreamy synth score by Dean & Britta).

The filmmaking team under him, meanwhile, seems to want to travel a different path: The script shoehorns in more identity - grappling this time — half - baked and sub-Westworld though it is — and the squelchy synth score (by Black Swan's Clint Mansell) supplies a playfulness that's unearned by the visuals.

Swaddled in Angelo Badalamenti's gorgeous synth score, with foreboding bass - thrums occasionally making way for a recurring, cascading piano theme of faltering heartbreak — soaring into lonely, plaintive high notes before falling back into a busier, lower register of despair.»

It's a killer premise and has an even better synth score that would put «Stranger Things» to shame.

The movie reminded me of Abel Ferrara's vampire nightmare The Addiction (1995), as well as John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), which is an obvious inspiration, with its clamorous synth score.

That said, the first Terminator movie has also aged the worst of the bunch thanks to a dated synth score, low - budget effect work and some bad «Eighties fashion.

You're Next is filmed in tremendously gory grindhouse fashion, with a wonderfully cheesy and Carpenter-esque synth score pouring over the film's second half.

Along with a great soundtrack and a solid synth score which is unashamedly 80's (in the best possible way) from Brad Fiedel, Fright Night is also bolstered by a mesmerizing and dashingly charismatic performance from Chris Sarandon as the villainous vamp.

And check out the haunting synth score by Disasterpiece.

Cool keyboard melodies evoke the kind of haunted, young female innocence that usually met at the end of a killer's blunt instrument back in the 70's / 80's synth score heyday that Rob captures par excellence.

A nice bonus, but pretty useless, since the film's Cantonese track is mastered in a robust Dolby 5.1 mix, and the overtly synth score is reduced to a flat mono track, sharing limited headroom with intrusive sound effects.

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.

He has recently enjoyed a surge of popularity thanks to his retrospective FM synth scores to the Etrian Odyssey series.

We looked at the musical journey of the game as kind of a «history of horror film», from orchestral, through the 1980s synth scores, and on to a more processed, artificial modern sound.

In each video, he performs a single ritualistic action in slow - motion sequences set to a creepy synth score — a nod to Bava and his fellow Italian horror director Dario Argento.

Even if all you remember is that shot of Olympians running on the beach to Vangelis's pounding synth score, it's fine.

Added to this, the combination of hand - held camerawork, harsh artificial lighting and an erratic grunge - synth score by Brooklyn - based electronic musician Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) lends a heart - pounding fever dream quality to this nightmarish vision of urban decay.

This should be a positive but what few of them realize is that it takes more than a synth score and a few bad - ass characters to emulate the thrills of his movies.

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.

Mounting and soaring around characters is the spectacle, created by the production design with monochromatic blocks a la Jack Kirby and a synth score by Wes Anderson's four - time collaborator Mark Mothersbaugh.

That somebody is David Robert Mitchell, who nailed the «70s and «80s slasher feel with long tracking shots, a synth score and a plot to scare you off sex for life.

Hans Zimmer's synth score has a drive and focus to it to keep the pulse beating at a brisk tempo.

during a Goldsmith film was when he experimented and made a bad creative call, like his all - synth scores or when he decided to use Tommy Walker's Charge in Mr. Baseball.

The electro - synth score by Cliff Martinez is also great, lending the film a pulse and upping the intensity without ever becoming overbearing.

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.

Death Note is not a total wash; Wingard is too stylish and interesting a director for that to happen (yes, the synth score is here once again courtesy of Atticus and Leopold Ross, and it's as great as expected).