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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
for Composer in Terrordrome: Rise of The Boogeymen (1997)
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One night in Hell, The Devil (Alan Rickman) has found out that one of its residents escaped from the underworld and went back to Earth, in the form of the maniacal child murdering dream demon. Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), following more escapees that start running amok as The Devil resorts to sending out Pinhead (Doug Bradley) and his cenobites to find not only Krueger, but many of his peers. Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Angela Franklin, Herbert West and many others. Once the famous killers got back to Earth, things slowly escalate into a bloodbath mixed with demons, zombies and vampires as even vampire king himself, Count Dracula (Jason Issacs) enters the mix as things reach to apocalyptic levels as all of the unholy beings have a fight to the death while the adversaries for the killers must come together to defeat them once and for all. The winner gets to kill the remaining victims and heroes for themselves, let the gore fest begin..
