Christopher Young | |
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Background information | |
Born | Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S. | April 28, 1958
Genres | Film score |
Occupation(s) | Composer orchestrator |
Instrument(s) | Piano |
Years active | 1982–present |
Website | officialchristopheryoung |
Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. [1]
Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser , Species , Urban Legend , The Grudge , The Exorcism of Emily Rose , Drag Me to Hell , Sinister , Deliver Us from Evil and Pet Sematary . Other works include Rapid Fire , Copycat , Set It Off , Entrapment , The Hurricane , Swordfish , Ghost Rider , Spider-Man 3 and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Young was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. [2]
Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. [3] He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music, and then completed his post-graduate work at the University of North Texas. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. [4]
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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1968 | Robby | Ralph C. Bluemke | 1983 re-issue score |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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1982 | The Dorm That Dripped Blood | Stephen Carpenter Jeffrey Obrow | — |
Highpoint | Peter Carter | — | |
1984 | The Oasis | Sparky Greene | — |
The Power | Stephen Carpenter Jeffrey Obrow | — | |
1985 | Avenging Angel | Robert Vincent O'Neil | — |
Def-Con 4 | Paul Donovan | — | |
Wheels of Fire | Cirio H. Santiago | — | |
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom | Héctor Olivera | — | |
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | Jack Sholder | — | |
Barbarian Queen | Héctor Olivera | — | |
Godzilla 1985 | R.J. Kizer Koji Hashimoto | Part of Young's score from Def-Con 4 appears in several scenes, including Godzilla's attack on the Soviet submarine, the scene where the SDF armored division arrives in Tokyo Bay, and Okumura's near-death experience during the helicopter extraction in Tokyo.[ citation needed ] | |
1986 | Getting Even | Dwight H. Little | — |
Torment | Samson Aslanian John Hopkins | — | |
Invaders from Mars | Tobe Hooper | — | |
Trick or Treat | Charles Martin Smith | — | |
1987 | Hellraiser | Clive Barker | — |
Flowers in the Attic | Jeffrey Bloom | — | |
U-Boats: The Wolfpack | — | Short film | |
1988 | The Telephone | Rip Torn | — |
Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Tony Randel | — | |
Bat*21 | Peter Markle | — | |
Haunted Summer | Ivan Passer | — | |
1989 | Vietnam War Story: The Last Days | David Burton Morris Sandy Smolan | Segments "Last Outpost, The", "Dirty Work" |
The Fly II | Chris Walas | — | |
Hider in the House | Matthew Patrick | — |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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1990 | Bright Angel | Michael Fields | — |
Max and Helen | Philip Saville | — | |
1992 | The Vagrant | Chris Walas | — |
Rapid Fire | Dwight H. Little | — | |
Jennifer 8 | Bruce Robinson | — | |
1993 | The Dark Half | George A. Romero | — |
Dream Lover | Nicholas Kazan | — | |
1994 | Judicial Consent | William Bindley | — |
1995 | Murder in the First | Marc Rocco | — |
Tales from the Hood | Rusty Cundieff | — | |
Species | Roger Donaldson | — | |
Virtuosity | Brett Leonard | — | |
Copycat | Jon Amiel | — | |
1996 | Unforgettable | John Dahl | — |
Set It Off | F. Gary Gray | — | |
Head Above Water | Jim Wilson | — | |
Norma Jean & Marilyn | Tim Fywell | — | |
1997 | Murder at 1600 | Dwight H. Little | — |
The Man Who Knew Too Little | Jon Amiel | — | |
1998 | Hard Rain | Mikael Salomon | — |
Hush | Jonathan Darby | — | |
Rounders | John Dahl | — | |
Judas Kiss | Sebastian Gutierrez | — | |
Urban Legend | Jamie Blanks | — | |
Playing by Heart | Willard Carroll | replacement for score by John Barry | |
1999 | Entrapment | Jon Amiel | — |
In Too Deep | Michael Rymer | — | |
The Big Kahuna | John Swanbeck | — | |
The Hurricane | Norman Jewison | — |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2000 | Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson | — |
Bless the Child | Chuck Russell | — | |
The Gift | Sam Raimi | — | |
2001 | Sweet November | Pat O'Connor | — |
Swordfish | Dominic Sena | — | |
Scenes of the Crime | Dominique Forma | — | |
The Glass House | Daniel Sackheim | — | |
Bandits | Barry Levinson | — | |
The Shipping News | Lasse Hallström | — | |
2002 | The Tower | E. Gedney Webb Jim Elliott | — |
The Country Bears | Peter Hastings | — | |
2003 | The Core | Jon Amiel | — |
Runaway Jury | Gary Fleder | — | |
2004 | Something the Lord Made | Joseph Sargent | — |
The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu | — | |
2005 | Beauty Shop | Bille Woodruff | — |
The Exorcism of Emily Rose | Scott Derrickson | — | |
2006 | The Grudge 2 | Takashi Shimizu | — |
2007 | Ghost Rider | Mark Steven Johnson | — |
Spider-Man 3 | Sam Raimi | Themes by Danny Elfman | |
Lucky You | Curtis Hanson | — | |
Shortcut to Happiness | Harry Kirkpatrick | Co-composed with Ramin Djawadi | |
2008 | Untraceable | Gregory Hoblit | — |
Sleepwalking | William Maher | — | |
The Informers | Gregor Jordan | — | |
2009 | The Uninvited | The Guard Brothers | — |
Drag Me to Hell | Sam Raimi | — | |
Creation | Jon Amiel | — | |
Love Happens | Brandon Camp | — |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2010 | When in Rome | Mark Steven Johnson | — |
Gone with the Pope | Duke Mitchell | — | |
The Black Tulip | Sonia Nassery Cole | — | |
2011 | Priest | Scott Stewart | — |
Box of Shadows | Mauro Borrelli | — | |
The Rum Diary | Bruce Robinson | — | |
2012 | Sinister | Scott Derrickson | — |
Scary or Die | Bob Badway Michael Emanuel Igor Meglic | — | |
The Baytown Outlaws | Barry Battles | — | |
2013 | Killing Season | Mark Steven Johnson | — |
Gods Behaving Badly | Marc Turtletaub | — | |
A Madea Christmas | Tyler Perry | — | |
2014 | The Monkey King | Cheang Pou-soi | — |
The Single Moms Club | Tyler Perry | — | |
Deliver Us from Evil | Scott Derrickson | — | |
2016 | The Monkey King 2 | Cheang Pou-soi | — |
2019 | Pet Sematary | Kevin Kölsch Dennis Widmyer | — |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2020 | The Empty Man | David Prior | — |
2023 | The Offering | Oliver Park | — |
Year | Title | Notes |
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2020 | 50 States of Fright | With Caleb Chan and Brian Chan |
2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities | |
Echo 3 | ||
Year | Title | Notes |
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2009 | The Saboteur | Theme music |
2017 | Wilson's Heart | — |
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