I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid that. The minute you have strings as your primary voice, the comparisons are always made. — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I don't think when I started off that I was expecting to become so specialized, but what happened is that when my career started,… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out of the… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of 20th century orchestral music, the experimental avant-garde composers of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. In horror movies you can write… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved - privately.… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though,… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
