10 Grisly Horror Movies With Surprisingly Beautiful Music Scores

Composer: Andy Garfield

Listen To: "Dog Story" and "Dan's Eulogy"

First off, no. This is not the Disney film. I tend to have to preface that every time I inquire with someone whether or not they've seen this little gem.

Writer/director Adam Green first hit the horror scene with Hatchet, a self-professed old-school slasher with old-school sensibilities. What that essentially boils down to is the "three B's of horror": Blood, boobs, beasts.

Hatchet may have had little-to-no narrative meat (hell, it was mostly just marrow), but it did stack on the bloody cliches of the genre with abandon. Whether that's good or bad depends on your preference for this oft-maligned sub-genre.

Personally, Hatchet only registered a "meh" on my rating scale. Regardless of how one feels watching a latex head spurt geysers of blood while its twisted off like a bottle cap, Hatchet did solidify Green as an up-and-coming director with an eye for homage.

Oddly enough, what followed wasn't another foray into mindless slaughter (though October of the same year would see that as well with Hatchet 2), but a contemplative dramatic horror film about three friends stuck on an inoperable ski lift.

Alright, so stating it that simply will only illicit an understandable shrug from most people, but what Frozen lacks in Inception-levels of storyline, it more than makes up for in bittersweet character development and a soundtrack which resonates with both compassion and dread.

Over the course of the winter storm, the three friends must not only deal with the elements and the esurient wolves waiting below, but their own issues with one another.

Over time, as survival becomes a larger issue, they begin to reflect on not only their relationships but the things in life that they will miss out on, should they shuffled off this mortal coil. In one of the most poignant moments/songs ("Dog Story"), Parker (Emma Bell) breaks down as she reminisces about the canine she left at home.

How it will never understand what happened to her, why she won't be coming back and how it too--without her there to nurture--will die waiting by the door for her impossible return.

Garfield's music is so subtly robust that it comes off as the only pitiable force in the movie; the only thing that cares about the freezing troika's plight. Thus, each track (like "Dan's Eulogy", "Dignity Lost" and "Sole Survivor") feels specifically tailored to the individual and the harsh moment of realization each endures.

It's a melancholic record that deserves attention and offers sobriety to a storyline that, in the wrong hands, would have come off as pure camp.