Howard Shore - Panic Room (Score)
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Artist: Howard ShoreEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-04-16
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Main Title - Howard Shore
- Caution - Flammable
- Working Elevator
- Fourth Floor Hallway
- Locking Us In
- Castle Keep
- What We Want Is in That Room
- Zone 19 Disabled
- A Very Emotional Property
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Free Music Review: Dark, brooding score compliments a great thriller
Hit: 5 Stars
Howard Shore's cues for this classic urban thriller perfectly compliment the ominous themes of robbery, home invasion, greed, claustrophobia and murder. The music captures the a cat-and-mouse standoff and subtle shifts that see two would-be victims outwit and outmanuever their assailants. The strings, bass horns and percussion section dominate the score, with a nod here and there to Shore's earlier composition, "The Silence of the Lambs". The music suggests the dark, sinister plot and the terror the mother and daughter experience in their own home, with no optimism or hope for the besieged tenants which adds to the unbearable tension as the film races to its conclusion.
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With its central story line of a woman trapped in her home, shrewdly fighting off a band of equally determined intruders, Panic Room hearkens back to thrillers like Wait Until Dark and others. But in the playful hands of director David Fincher, it's a story whose technology--be it onscreen or in or behind the camera--is considerably more than mere plot point; it's a turnkey to ratchet the tension to almost nerve-wracking levels. Composer Howard Shore is Fincher's masterful musical accomplice in the caper, tightening the screws with swirling, unearthly orchestral flourishes, then hammering home the action with massive blasts of bass and percussion. Where the Oscar®-winning Lord of the Rings displayed the maturity of his dramatic writing, the composer's work here is an exercise in sheer psychological manipulation that, like that of Bernard Herrmann before him, succeeds less by melodic conceits than it does in the dark, almost subliminal power of Shore's orchestral writing and arranging. Though the Master would've likely never admitted it, this is music that would've done Hitchcock proud. --Jerry McCulleyPop Music CDs
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