Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the 2003 cult movie Beyond Re-Animator, Screamworks Records releases the world premiere recording of Spanish composer Xavier Capellas’s orchestral score for the film. The score follows in the tradition (and quotes the original Re-Animator theme) of Richard Band, giving the low-budget horror comedy a full-grown symphonic backdrop for the absurd on-screen action...

Xavier Capellas’s score for Beyond Re-animator is an interesting addition to the horror genre. The score contains 18 tracks and lasts for 47 min, 49 sec.

Highlights include 'Prologue' and 'The Reanimation of Moses', which bears more than a passing resemblance to Bernard Herrmann's most famous segment of music for Psycho; 'Let's Get High', which is the album's funkiest track; and 'Bite Job', which sounds not unlike Christopher Young's work on Hellraiser.

While not an essential purchase, there are enough interesting themes here to make it worth your while looking out for.

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Darren Rea