The Unfamiliar
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Lakeshore Records presents the soundtrack album for the British horror thriller The Unfamiliar composed by Walter Meir.

Lakeshore Records presents the soundtrack album for the British horror thriller The Unfamiliar composed by Walter Meir.

British Army Doctor, Elizabeth “Izzy” Cormack, returns from war to rekindle her relationship with her estranged family. Izzy notices numerous inexplicable activities in her house that her husband believes are due to her suffering from PTSD as a consequence of war. Izzy militantly pieces the daunting puzzle together to reveal a terrifying, invisible enemy that has infested her entire family. In a heroic attempt to save her family, she is pulled into a dark underworld in Hawaii to explore ancient mythology.

The film directed by Henk Pretorius and starring Jemima West and Christopher Dane was released by Dark Matter Studios on August 21, 2020.

About Walter Meir:
Walter Mair is an Ivor Novello-nominated and Telly Award-winning composer known for his captivating scores ranging from epic orchestrations recorded with 80-piece choirs to intimate, small ensemble and hybrid electronic pieces that have graced a diverse mix of feature films, documentaries, television dramas, narrative-driven interactive entertainment and video games. In 2020, he received two Telly awards for “Best Original Music” for his scores to the BAFTA “EE Mobile Game of the Year” Call of Duty: Mobile as well as his score to the Netflix docuseries Formula 1: Drive to Survive. His most recent credits include the psychological horror film The Unfamiliar, the coming-of-age drama Iceland is Best, and the action-thriller Knuckledust.

Other credits include Oliver Hirschbiegel’s International cold war mini-series for Netflix and ZDF, The Same Sky, which premiered at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, the Universal Pictures’ documentary feature Ronaldo, the Three Penny Opera by Joachim Lang, based on Berthold Brecht’s Beggar’s Opera, Lucid directed by Adam Morse, 3 Way Junction, and Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River starring Saorise Ronan, Matt Smith, Christina Hendricks, and Eva Mendes. His music can also be heard in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto video games, Sony’s sci-fi franchise Killzone, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction and The Creative Assembly’s Total War series.

Walter believes that the main principle of creativity is to come up with genuine sounds, and he enjoys experimenting and creating unique sonic worlds for each of his projects, using his extensive collection of analog digital synths and blending live orchestral arrangements with experimental post-recording techniques.

In 2006, Walter moved from his native Austria to London to open his own state-of-the-art recording studio in SoHo and is a member of both BAFTA and BASCA.

More info at: Official website Lakeshore

Lakeshore Records presents the soundtrack for the British horror movie The Unfamiliar. The album contains the music composed by Walter Mair.

Lakeshore Records presents the soundtrack for the British horror movie The Unfamiliar. The album contains the music composed by Walter Mair.

The soundtrack is available to download on Amazon and other digital music stores.

The Unfamiliar is directed by Henk Pretorius with Jemima West, Christopher Dane, Rebecca Hanssen, Harry McMilan-Hunt and Rachel Lin.

A british army doctor comes back from a war, thinking that she has a PTSD (Posttraumatic stress disorder) only to discover that there is a more daunting malevolence at work making the life that she knew unfamiliar.

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..“You looked up to me and said: 'I’m going to do that too, mummy'”...
- The “Piano Scene” -

More info at: Official movie website Dark Matter Studios