The Newton Brothers: Oculus

The Newton Brothers (The Pawn Shop Chronicles, Detachment) cement their growing reputation as soundtrackers with the extremely effective score to this low-budget horror film. The brooding strings, chromatic electronica and driving pulse builds a pervasive atmosphere of menace and unease. The score is increasingly disrupted with sudden jolts of abrupt and aggressive percussion, which amplify rather than diminish its underlying intensities of sadness and loss. Andy and Taylor Newton's dynamic combination of simple melodic fragments, aleatory noise (broken glass, metal scrapes) and a solemn choir gradually inject the seriously spooky Oculus with nerve-shredding suspense and skin-crawling dread. varesesarabande.com

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