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While the film itself concerns a violent urban legend and is often regarded as a traditional slasher, this gorgeous soundtrack is anything but typical. From the haunting tinkering of music boxes to its heart-rattling choral performances, the— Pablo Larraín's 2016 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis biopic — is not itself a horror film, the sounds composer Mica Levi crafted to accompany it seemingly disagree.Levi's music veers toward the strange and moody here.
was commissioned retroactively by Universal Pictures in 1998 to help breathe new life into their Monster canon. This highly ambitious musical project, which happens to be my favourite from this list, is as stunning as it is frightening.in 1999, Glass said: "I felt the score needed to evoke the feeling of the world of the 19th century. For that reason, I decided a string quartet would be the most evocative and effective." And evocative is right.