10 Grisly Horror Movies With Surprisingly Beautiful Music Scores
3. The Descent (2005)
Composer: David Julyan
Listen To: "The Descent" and "Crawlers Attack/The Crawlers Final Fight"
Forget about the appalling "Part 2" that sought to negate this now iconic fright flick. The Descent is a spectacular vision of claustrophobic terror and emotional density. Writer/director Neil Marshall could have taken the easy route and simply made this a creature-feature focused on caverns of gore (though it's got that too), but he instead chose to pack it up to the stalactites with personality and a psychological arc that paid off with devastating dividends.
David Julyan's score is as primal as the Crawler's subterranean habits and as sentimental as each of the heroines and their tender relationships with one another. It's one of the finest juxtapositions of horror and raw emotion that staggers with its seamless ability to glide between morose notes, ferocious chugs and crestfallen sinfonietta oscillations.
All in all, the perfect soundtrack next time you go grotto spelunking.