When Graeme Revell says his latest film score is hot, he’s not kidding. It’s for Tobe Hooper’s new movie. SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, and it opens with a blazing 1812-ish overture for orchestra and flamethrower. It’s not your usual film score. But then, Graeme Revell isn’t your usual film composer. Classically trained in his youth in New…
Over the last year, New Zealand born composer Graeme Revell has taken many journeys into outer space, with eclectic and superior scores to PITCH BLACK, TITAN A.E., and RED PLANET. Previous excursions into the fantastically macabre include SPAWN (the live-action version), FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, and THE CROW series. Even his first American film score,…
With a talent for the musically eclectic, Graeme Revell has found a comfortable niche in scoring ‘outré’ films - macabre thrillers, fantasies, and science fiction efforts. His first score, Phillip Noyce’s acclaimed thriller, DEAD CALM, brought him notoriety in Hollywood, which beckoned him to score Tobe Hooper’s SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. A number of unusual and innovative…
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