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Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, and Alice in Wonderland, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. He wrote music for all of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for Henry Selick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for the popular television series Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons. Among his honours are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy, seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, the 2002 Richard Kirk Award, the 2015 Disney Legend Award, the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award in 2017, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Spencer Mansion was constructed in the Arklay Mountains in the 1960s by George Trevor, an architect who subsequently disappeared. The mansion housed an underground laboratory used by Umbrella Pharmaceuticals for top-secret bio-weapons development on behalf of the US military. Soon after the ε strain's completion in 1998, the virus broke out and infected the staff, causing noticeable necrosis of the skin, and severe brain damage which limits their intelligence and triggers the excessive production of hormones, making them murderously angry; obsessively hungry, and growing several inches. In their volatile state, they are unable to prevent their mutant test-subjects escaping, leading to a number of deaths of hikers and suburban factories. In July 1998, the Raccoon Police Department, unable to solve the murder and animal attack cases, hands over the investigation to S.T.A.R.S., an elite law-enforcement unit funded by Umbrella.
