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Dominic Lewis composed the film score, replacing Danny Elfman who composed the predecessor. [2] Lewis found it "very daunting following someone like Danny Elfman" as he had to follow Elfman's work for the original film, as well as creating new themes. The main theme composed by Elfman for the first film, was used by Lewis sparsely. Independently, he wanted to bring his orchestral sound to the film, similar to the predecessor. [3] Lewis described the score for Haunted Halloween as his homage to the 1980s action adventure films but mixed with horror stuff. [4] Despite the sequel's tonality on light-hearted horror, Lewis "purposely tried to go a bit more scary" owing to being true to R. L. Stine's horror novels. [4] He added, "it works out because the first half of the movie, which I’d say is probably the scariest, actually all takes place within the day time. So that afforded me to go a little bit scarier with the music as it contrasts the fact that it is the day time, because you always assume the scary stuff is going to happen at night." [4] Lewis further wanted to home in on the creepiness, which resulted in him using three different piano that were tuned in various ways—the first tuned normally, second a bit higher and the third a bit low, and put through delay and reverb—in addition to the use of celeste, harp and glockenspiel to achieve the dark magic type of sound. [4]
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