Wrong Turn

Take one measure each of The Hill Have Eyes and Deliverance, toss with a little modern Joy Ride sensibility and you might end up with something approaching Wrong Turn, director Rob Schmidt's contemporary teen horror-thriller. Czech-born composer Elia Cmiral has carved himself a neat niche in the supernatural and horror genres since Stigmata, fuelling his score here with a familiar, but effective cocktail of edgy 20th century orchestral modernism cut with bracing post-modern brio. Punctuating proceedings with silences and the instrumental equivalents of murmurs and whispers, the composer shows his mastery of the not always compatible facets of dynamics and tension to good effect throughout, using some deceptive pastoralism and a few dashes of what sounds like hillbilly baroque as a launching pad for his percussive thumps, string-powered creepery and brassy jolts. --Jerry McCulley, Amazon.com

Label: Unknown
Studio: Varese Sarabande
Released: 2003-06-23
Format: Audio CD

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