Marco Beltrami was recommended by the executive producer Guillermo del Toro,who had worked in Mimic (1997),Blade II (2002) and Hellboy (2004) to score for the film,along with his protégéBuck Sanders as the co-composer. According to Beltrami,as del Toro made a very stylized picture of the television film remake and wanted the music to evoke a little bit of the feel of some of the classic horror films from the 1970s. Beltrami was reliant on woodwinds and instruments such as the vibraphone,and melodic ideas,instead of approaching it in a textural way. For the most part,the score was purely orchestral although some sounds were manipulated and processed using echoplex. The lullaby theme for Sally,was made using the carousel sounds,while a corresponding theme for the goblin creatures and other themes accompany much of the score. He considered it as a bit different from some of the horror films,which concentrated more on sound principles,taking acoustic sounds and manipulating them,and while the film having a bit of jump scares,the film for the most part,revolves around the story of Sally and the story is travelled through her point of view unlike the jump scares in the Scream franchise.[1][2]
Release
The album was released digitally on August 23,2011,and in physical formats on September 27,2011,under the Lakeshore Records label.[3]
Reception
Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times and Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter considered the score as "thrilling" and "exhillarating".[4][5] William Ruhlmann of AllMusic wrote "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark,circa 2011,thus,is a deliberately old-fashioned horror movie score by some avid students of the style."[6] Ian Bunting of Daily Record called it a "gothic score".[7]
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