Pitch Black & Bride of Chucky


Movie | Released: 2000 | Format: CD
 

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# Track   Duration
Pitch Black
1.Was it a Dream?3:06
2.Crash2:25
3.Elegy2:09
4.Three Suns3:39
5.Settlement1:28
6.Desert Journey1:20
7.Pitch Black3:20
8.Race Against the Sun6:19
9.Total Eclipse0:53
10."Here"2:12
11.Clash of the Titans3:00
12.Move!6:30
13.Saving Grace2:29
14.The Rapture2:34
15.Goodnight2:54
 
Bride of Chucky
16.Tiffany and Chucky1:01
17.Break In - That's Our Chucky3:40
18.Voodoo for Dummies - Master at Work3:54
19.Plastic Love2:23
20.Domestic Bliss1:01
21.The Amulet4:14
22.Tiffany Kills Chucky1:49
23.Child's Play 5 - The Seed of Chucky?1:41
24.Reunited1:58
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Pitch Black & Bride of Chucky - 04/10 - Review of Tom Daish, submitted at
David Twohy's B-movie sci-fi, horror flick was a gallant example of using a modest budget to turn out a decently exciting sub-Aliens style action film. Aside from the up and coming Vin Diesel, it stars no big names, but still did moderately well and furthered the argument that Hollywood has simply been dressing up B-movies with an A-list budget and when it makes a throwaway popcorn flick for its own sake, the results are often far more satisfying. The premise is a bit daft (aren't they all?), but rather annoyingly, it could have been along the same lines using entirely realistic science. A total eclipse of 3 suns at once is nigh on impossible and the ecology of the planet is totally and utterly implausible. So frustrating when an equally good film could have been made and have some grounding in reality (if you are sad enough to want to know more, mail me).

This kind of film doesn't need anything notable in the music department; plenty of perfunctory atmospheric music for the opening, then building tension and then a bit of action at the denouement. Graeme Revell delivers the goods in the film, but it isn't the type of music that functions well as an album. Was it a Dream? is a good opener and gentle moments such as Elegy work nicely. However, those moments aside, little of any interest happens until Race Against the Sun which introduces some heavy drum funk and plenty of menacing synth choir and brass, sort of Hans Zimmer meets David Arnold meets techno. Not exactly art, but exciting enough and with a quite ferocious and chaotic finale. That's pretty much it in the invention stakes. The atmospheric bits plod along in a minimalist, droning kind of way and the action is exciting, but simplistic synthetic percussion. Perfect in the film, but not a great deal to recommend on CD.

Bride of Chucky is the third sequel in the Child's Play series of horror films about a possessed psychotic doll. Mainly an infamous series for being one of the video nasties that horrified parents in the 80's and 90's in the UK. Of course, they aren't meant to be watched by children and any parents stupid enough to let their child watch something like this is frankly asking for trouble. This curious twist gives, as the title suggests, Chucky a lady wife and was apparently quite an amusing, but still quite disturbing update to the series in the post-Scream era of ironic and self referential horror.

Bride of Chucky is a little more perky than most of Pitch Black and considerably more interesting. Tiffany and Chucky is almost, but not quite a twisted lullaby, making good use of a sampled woman's voice over a synthetic bass tune (same kind of twang as Angelo Badalamenti's main theme for Twin Peaks) and functions as the main theme. Break In features somewhat more orchestra and some quite passable horror music in a Marco Beltrami kind of way, while Voodoo for Dummies (sounds like a great read) has some very peculiar samples which are soundscape more than music. I suppose I'm old fashioned, but I do vastly prefer the orchestral passages, as they also show considerably more imagination

Revell has penned a few decent scores in his career, his effort for The Saint being particularly good, however neither of these are any great shakes. Pitch Black could probably be condensed down to a 15 minute suite and is certainly vastly inferior to some of his often inspired work on Red Planet. Bride of Chucky is better mainly because it is shorter, yet more varied with dashes of humour and horror mixed in quite nicely. I'm sure Graeme Revell fans will be delighted to be able to hear these scores, but as pure music, I found neither particular engaging.


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