Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
Bear McCreary
" If interesting is a word to go by, McCreary delivers his music in interesting ways. "Written by Thomas Glorieux - Review of the regular release
Speaking of horror movies, Wrong Turn and Wrong Turn: Dead End are the next in line to splash our heads in two. Horror movies today are faster, they forget to create tension and explode onto the screen in the most gruesome ways imaginable. Two movies turn back to the genre of those not so serious horror movies, but still with that gory effect. The first carried a Elia Cmiral score, the second carries a Bear McCreary sound. McCreary himself will be best known for his work on the Battlestar Galactica series and in here he does deliver something fun, fun in a not too serious kind of way.
Like the movie, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is all about stating it a little bit overblown. Why do it serious if you can make it a little less serious instead. I wouldn't exactly call both the movie and score fun, but they aren't scary or downbeat, they are interesting and up tempo. If interesting is a word to go by, McCreary delivers his music in interesting ways. Mandolin, sitar, guitar, whistling, autoharps, banjos, percussion. It all probably appeared in the Battlestar Galactica series but for a horror movie it is something different. And to tell you directly, don't expect a sting. Because there is non to be heard!
If something is returning in Wrong Turn 2 too much it is the overall main theme of the score. After a while it makes the music sound somewhat the same. But through positive thinking it does provide the whole listening experience with a mood that connects all those lost dots.
"Main Title" opens with mandolin and whistling, bringing a sort of cool western effect to the sound. It may have sounded weird at first, it does provide the remaining score with a cool effect that doesn't stray away easily.
However if one thing will be easily detested or accepted it will be "Ultimate Survivalist Theme Song". This is one wacky mixing job, throwing droning and sound design together onto one mean little rhythm. It is however that rhythm that will fuel the remainder of the score in its pace, creating an entertaining tone overall.
The mandolin on the pace in "Dale for Dinner", the guitars in "Mutant Cannibal Incest", excellent percussive delight in "Into the Mill" and the best track "Dale Vigilante" throwing electric guitars and beats into the whole creative mix. It may sound like one wacky uncontrollable mess, but it doesn't sound that way at all.
It may begin to sound the same after a while. While being true, the raw sound does perform a mean climax in "Dale to the Rescue" and in "The Meat Grinder", while containing a cool main theme version in "End Credits". The only remarkable changes in pace and tone are "Nina's Theme" and "Baby Splooge Lives" and these bring forward a much calmer sound.
I must say I wasn't expecting anything like this at all. It isn't what you call a typical run of the mill horror score but I can't quite call it horror to begin with. This is more cool suspense on a fast rhythm, droning forward alongside many acoustic instrumental performances. It probably will be a familiar McCreary sound for those following and listening to his Battlestar Galactica projects, but for me it is a fresh and cool way to present your music with. Wrong Turn 2: Dead End thereby isn't that bad at all.
Tracklisting
1. Main Title (3.40)
2. "Ultimate Survivalist" Theme Song * (3.21)
3. Dale for Dinner (2.34)
4. Birth of Baby Splooge (3.04)
5. Nina's Theme (2.44)
6. Mutant Cannibal Incest (3.02)
7. Into the Mill (2.50)
8. Arrow Through our Heads (3.18)
9. Dale Vigilante (3.21)
10. Hunting Dale (3.42)
11. Rescuing Nina (3.05)
12. Dale to the Rescue (3.19)
13. The Meat Grinder (2.17)
14. Baby Splooge Lives (2.36)
15. End Credits (Theme from Wrong Turn 2) (3.41)
16. Under your Bones ** (5.25)
* By Bear McReary and Jonathan Snipes
** Music by Bear McReary and Jonathan Snipes, performed by Captain Ahab
Total Length: 52.07
Like the movie, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is all about stating it a little bit overblown. Why do it serious if you can make it a little less serious instead. I wouldn't exactly call both the movie and score fun, but they aren't scary or downbeat, they are interesting and up tempo. If interesting is a word to go by, McCreary delivers his music in interesting ways. Mandolin, sitar, guitar, whistling, autoharps, banjos, percussion. It all probably appeared in the Battlestar Galactica series but for a horror movie it is something different. And to tell you directly, don't expect a sting. Because there is non to be heard!
If something is returning in Wrong Turn 2 too much it is the overall main theme of the score. After a while it makes the music sound somewhat the same. But through positive thinking it does provide the whole listening experience with a mood that connects all those lost dots.
"Main Title" opens with mandolin and whistling, bringing a sort of cool western effect to the sound. It may have sounded weird at first, it does provide the remaining score with a cool effect that doesn't stray away easily.
However if one thing will be easily detested or accepted it will be "Ultimate Survivalist Theme Song". This is one wacky mixing job, throwing droning and sound design together onto one mean little rhythm. It is however that rhythm that will fuel the remainder of the score in its pace, creating an entertaining tone overall.
The mandolin on the pace in "Dale for Dinner", the guitars in "Mutant Cannibal Incest", excellent percussive delight in "Into the Mill" and the best track "Dale Vigilante" throwing electric guitars and beats into the whole creative mix. It may sound like one wacky uncontrollable mess, but it doesn't sound that way at all.
It may begin to sound the same after a while. While being true, the raw sound does perform a mean climax in "Dale to the Rescue" and in "The Meat Grinder", while containing a cool main theme version in "End Credits". The only remarkable changes in pace and tone are "Nina's Theme" and "Baby Splooge Lives" and these bring forward a much calmer sound.
I must say I wasn't expecting anything like this at all. It isn't what you call a typical run of the mill horror score but I can't quite call it horror to begin with. This is more cool suspense on a fast rhythm, droning forward alongside many acoustic instrumental performances. It probably will be a familiar McCreary sound for those following and listening to his Battlestar Galactica projects, but for me it is a fresh and cool way to present your music with. Wrong Turn 2: Dead End thereby isn't that bad at all.
Tracklisting
1. Main Title (3.40)
2. "Ultimate Survivalist" Theme Song * (3.21)
3. Dale for Dinner (2.34)
4. Birth of Baby Splooge (3.04)
5. Nina's Theme (2.44)
6. Mutant Cannibal Incest (3.02)
7. Into the Mill (2.50)
8. Arrow Through our Heads (3.18)
9. Dale Vigilante (3.21)
10. Hunting Dale (3.42)
11. Rescuing Nina (3.05)
12. Dale to the Rescue (3.19)
13. The Meat Grinder (2.17)
14. Baby Splooge Lives (2.36)
15. End Credits (Theme from Wrong Turn 2) (3.41)
16. Under your Bones ** (5.25)
* By Bear McReary and Jonathan Snipes
** Music by Bear McReary and Jonathan Snipes, performed by Captain Ahab
Total Length: 52.07