The Texas Chainsaw Massacre


La-La Land Records (0826924100929)
Movie | Released: 2003 | Film release: 2003 | Format: CD
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# Track   Duration
1.Leatherface2:45
2.He's a Bad Man4:02
3.Erin and Kemper1:07
4.Hewitt House1:09
5.Driving with a Corpse1:24
6.Kemper Gets Whacked - Jedidiah1:56
7.Crawford Mill1:50
8.Interrogation3:50
9.Andy Loses a Leg1:41
10.You're So Dead3:33
11.Hook Me Up2:40
12.My Boy3:15
13.Morgan's Wild Ride - Van Attack4:35
14.Mercy Killing2:59
15.Prairie House3:13
16.Final Confrontation5:25
17.Can't Go Back3:55
18.Last Goodbye1:00
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 05/10 - Review of Tom Daish, submitted at
Oh great, just what I always wanted, another modern horror score. Still, I must admit to being somewhat buoyed by the name of Steve Jablonsky on the packaging after his fine contributions to 'Hans Zimmer's' score to Tears of the Sun. However, the directors and producers of horror films only ever seem to be after one style and so Jablonsky does as is required, if not a great deal more. The opening certainly isn't helped by the fact that almost nothing of note actually happens until track 6. Mostly it's droning strings and/or synths, with the occasional sweep across a cymbal and a bit of other clattering, just to wake the listener up. The token theme during Erin and Kemper is fair enough; a spooky, if generic, piano and strings melody, but even that gives way to more long notes in Hewitt House.

Kemper Gets Whacked does indeed propose a general picking up of the pace, with a violent orchestral outburst which jangles the nerves effectively enough, even if that's more the shock of noise, rather than through a relentless buildup, then release of tension. What is frustrating is that Jablonsky manages a few fairly decent orchestral passages, a four note string motif appears frequently and allows the music to be tense, while still maintaining some momentum. However, these are too infrequent and don't seem to actually go anywhere, at least nowhere outside yet another loud orchestral impact. The more exciting passages are fine enough; Andy Loses a Leg is appropriately horrific, with plenty of hammer blows, churning strings and wailing horns. If it doesn't quite hit a Goldenthalian fervor, it's certainly a decent imitation. The action centrepiece is Morgan's Wild Ride, which picks up from a fairly typical suspense dirge into a pounding, but cleanly orchestrated slice of excitement that could give Don Davis' horror scores a good run for their money. Prairie House and Final Confrontation aren't quite as impressive, but still a decent finale.

Jablonsky's contributions to Tears of the Sun did some good things with Zimmer's material and although the good passages of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre offer little new and aren't nearly as good, they are at least occasionally engaging and, in Mercy Killing, gruesomely operatic. Similarly, while not especially original, the action is orchestrated and mixed so that the banging and clanging doesn't overwhelm the cyclic string motifs and synthetic loops. Again, I must bemoan that, at over 50 minutes, the album is too long. A couple of the early and middle tracks could have been abandoned. I suspect the results would have been more action than horror, but at least that gets the pulse racing whereas the buildup does just the opposite. Above average as a modern horror score, although that does rather sound like damnation through faint praise.
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