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Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Christopher Young
Composer
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Three months after the dream stalking child murderer, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) was sent to Hell after being defeated by Jessie Walsh and his girlfriend, Lisa. However, it wasn't enough to put down The Springwood Slasher for too long as Krueger was conducting a plan involving the infamous Crystal Lake killer, Jason Voorhees (Richard Brooker). The dream demon wanted Jason to kill some of the local teens for him, however Krueger wasn't happy when Jason started to stalk the first survivor of Krueger's terror, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) and with retaliation, Freddy began to go after some of the kids nearby Crystal Lake, including Ginny Field (Amy Steel). One of the more recent survivors of Jason's killing spree, but a silver lining came in the form of Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) who was visiting around Crystal Lake after surviving through the incidents that took place inside of Knowby Cabin, down over Michigan. Later on after a large bloody spree between the two killers, Freddy and Jason get back to Crystal Lake and start the battle between the two monsters. Now, it was time for Nancy, Ash and Ginny to stop both Freddy and Jason once and for all, but the question is. Which psychopath shall come out on top, let the bloodbath begin..
