Michael Giacchino

Let Me In Varese Sarabande*****

Tomas Alfredson's critically acclaimed Swedish horror film Let the Right One In, about a lonely boy's relationship with a 200-year-old vampire child, boasted a superb score by Johan Soderqvist. Matt Reeves's US remake features an equally memorable score by Michael Giacchino ( Up, Star Trek, Lost), who wrote an eight-minute final credit cue for Reeves's Cloverfield, one of the shortest film scores in recent memory. The award-winning composer creates a remarkably dense score of taut menace and exquisite tenderness, which combines simple melodies and threnodic rhythms with spare orchestration (horns, strings, piano), chromatic electronica and boy soprano. With a homage and a wink to Krystof Penderecki and György Ligeti as much as Bernard Herrmann, Let Me Inis wonderfully evocative, dark and sweet, and scary as hell. See colosseum.de

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