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| Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Kevin Bergeron Sue Ellen Soto |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Website | waxworkrecords |
Waxwork Records is an American independent record label. It has released film scores and movie soundtracks on vinyl as well as comics.
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| Genre | |
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| Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Kevin Bergeron Sue Ellen Soto |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Website | waxworkrecords |
Waxwork Records is an American independent record label. It has released film scores and movie soundtracks on vinyl as well as comics.
Waxwork Records was founded in 2013 by Kevin Bergeron and Sue Ellen Soto. [1] By 2015, it had re-released vinyl scores for horror films such as Day of the Dead , Creepshow , and Chopping Mall . [2] [3] It also released a blood-filled vinyl collection for Harry Manfredini's Friday the 13th soundtrack. [3] [4] In 2016, it released House of Waxwork, the first comic book from its Waxwork Comics line. [5] [6]
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Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood is an English musician. He is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Radiohead, and has composed numerous film scores. He has been named one of the greatest guitarists by numerous publications, including Rolling Stone.
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Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films, a television series, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise. The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who was thought to have drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff. Decades later, the lake is rumored to be "cursed" and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason is featured in all of the films, as either the killer or the motivation for the killings. The original film, created to cash in on the success of Halloween (1978), was written by Victor Miller and was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham. The films have grossed over $468 million at the box-office worldwide.
Phenomena is a 1985 Italian giallo-horror film directed and co-written by Dario Argento and starring Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Patrick Bauchau, and Donald Pleasence. The plot concerns an American girl at a remote Swiss boarding school who discovers she has psychic powers that allow her to communicate with insects, and uses them to pursue a serial killer who is butchering young women at and around the school.
Douglas Pipes is an American film score composer whose feature films include the Academy Award-nominated Monster House, the horror film Trick 'r Treat, and the Christmas comedy-horror film Krampus. His brassy instrumentations have drawn comparisons to action-music composer guru Alan Silvestri and his other orchestral-music composer counterparts Michael Giacchino, J.A.C. Redford and Joel McNeely. His chance encounter with Gil Kenan at UCLA California made him the perfect composer for this soundtrack and composed the music on his short film The Lark.
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Chernobyl: Music from the Original TV Series is the soundtrack album to the historical drama miniseries Chernobyl, based on the aftermath of Chernobyl disaster that occurred during 1986. The musical score was composed by Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, which was being created using sound recordings from an actual nuclear power plant. The score album featuring thirteen tracks, were released under Deutsche Grammophon and WaterTower Music labels on May 31, 2019. A vinyl edition of the soundtrack was released by Decca Records on September 6.
Army of the Dead (Music From the Netflix Film) is the soundtrack album to the 2021 American film Army of the Dead, directed by Zack Snyder. The soundtrack was released by Milan Records on May 21, 2021, coinciding the day with its global release on Netflix. It features 12 tracks from the original score composed by Tom Holkenborg, also known as Junkie XL, and the Elvis Presley song "Viva Las Vegas" (performed by Richard Cheese and Allison Crowe). In addition, a limited edition 2-disc vinyl set of the soundtrack was released on September 10.
Inside Out: Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to Disney/Pixar's 2015 film of the same name, produced by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Pete Docter, the film featured musical score composed by Michael Giacchino. This is the second collaboration between Giacchino and Docter, after previously working on Up, which fetched the former, an Academy Award for Best Original Score. Giacchino termed the score as "more emotional in comparison to the score for Up" and also being "more personal" due to his experience on parenthood. The score was recorded within January and May 2015, and featured more orchestral and symphonic music accompanied by a range of instruments, from piano, guitar, drum, organ and harp.
Parasite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the Academy Award-winning South Korean film Parasite directed by Bong Joon-ho. It was released under the Genie Music and Stone Music Entertainment labels on 30 May 2019, the same day as the film's release and featured musical score composed by Jung Jae-il, who previously collaborated with Bong for Okja (2017).
Halloween is the soundtrack album to the 2018 film Halloween, which is the eleventh installment in the Halloween franchise and a sequel to the 1978 film of the same name. The film was directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Jeff Fradley, and Danny McBride. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle who reprise their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, with stuntman James Jude Courtney, who also portrays Myers.
Halloween Kills (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2021 film Halloween Kills, directed by David Gordon Green; a sequel to Green's Halloween (2018) and the twelfth instalment in the Halloween franchise. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, who previously scored for the first film, returned for the sequel. As similar to the predecessor, John had reused the original theme from the 1978 film using modern interpretations.
Halloween Ends (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2022 film Halloween Ends, directed by David Gordon Green; a sequel to Halloween Kills (2021), the thirteenth instalment in the Halloween franchise and the final film in the trilogy of sequels that started with the 2018 film, which directly follows the 1978 film. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, returned for Ends after previously scored for the first two entries in the franchise.
The Menu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album to the 2022 film of the same name, directed by Mark Mylod and features music composed by Colin Stetson, released by Milan Records on November 18, 2022. The album featured 14 tracks from Stetson's original music composed for the film, which had certain musical approaches and layers diverse throughout the film and the characters, and relied much on orchestral music.
The Northman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2022 film of the same name directed by Robert Eggers and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk and Willem Dafoe. The album was released on April 15, 2022 by Back Lot Music. Featuring music composed by Tri Angle artists Robin Carolan and Sebastian Gainsborough a.k.a. Vessel, in their first film scoring assignment, the duo had extensively researched on Vikings history to capture the essence of Nordic folk music, since both the musicians have background in electronic music.
Get Out (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album to the 2017 film of the same name directed by Jordan Peele. The film is scored by California-based Michael Abels, in his first feature composition. Prior working as a schoolteacher in the music department in California, Abels was recruited after Peele listened to one of his instrumental cue which blended a range of genres.
No One Will Save You (Original Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2023 film of the same name directed by Brian Duffield. Featuring original score composed by Joseph Trapanese, the album consisted of 30-tracks of the score released by Hollywood Records on September 22, 2023, which would be followed by a vinyl edition set for release in January 2024 through Waxwork Records.
Candyman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2021 film of the same name. Featuring the film's score composed by Lichens who credited under his original name Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, the score consisted of vocal performances by the composer as well as acoustic instruments sampled and manipulated through recordings of various sounds at live locations. The album featured 34 tracks released through digital, CD and vinyl formats on August 27, 2021 through Back Lot Music and Waxwork Records.
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