This is from a horror film I scored in 2010 by Writer/Director Robert DeAlmeida. Bobby and I had worked on another film years prior (The Legend Of Drunken Monk), and he spent over a year developing the idea for KDH. It’s essentially a chapter in a larger story. The short film was shot on the Red camera, and looks, well, amazing. The theme song came from a melody Bobby wrote himself on acoustic guitar and brought to me. You can hear it in the piano in the last part of this remixed cue. The film is one of the darkest things I’ve ever worked on, and the most controversial. Horror scores are always fun for me – the chance to manipulate the audience with tone and dissonance. I used a lot of instruments from the EWQL Gold library, particularly the string effects blended with morphed synths, to create the uneasiness of the score.
