Nine of the 16 tracks consist of Clouser’s original score. A slow, menacing mixture of ambient and industrial, that sounds like a cross between NIN and Aphex Twin – or indeed much like the latter’s remix of the former’s ‘At The Heart Of It All’. I haven’t seen the film, but this seems to suit the mood perfectly for an edge-of-your-seat blood-chilling film.

The creepy score is punctuated by bursts of industrial-tinged rock/metal acts, such as Fear Factory (who include new single ‘Bite The Hand That Bleeds’) and Chimaira. Unfortunately a scheduled contribution from Front Line Assembly had to be pulled late in the day, but the industrial-stomp provided by Psycho Pomps fills in nicely though, and they’re hardly missed.  One of the most impressive of all, surprisingly, is a song from the previously unknown Enemy – the new project from Troy Leeuwen (A Perfect Circle/QOTSA).

The ‘proper songs’ fit quite well amidst the score, not sounding as disjointed as they might, but it does break up the tempo somewhat. Be warned, this is neither a techno/industrial/rock-crossover like The Matrix nor quite as atmospheric as Underworld. With that in mind, while it’s no doubt perfectly suited to the film, it isn’t gripping enough in its own right to give you nightmares.

(3½/5)

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