The brilliant Spaniard who can delicately form tension through orchestral symphony is quite rightly involved to provide Crimson Peak's audio. Unquestionably the most important asset in horror filmmaking is music; it invasively crawls under the skin and leaves the viewer quivering with dread as the images begin to unfold. Watch the scariest scene imaginable on mute and it will have virtually no emotional effect. His back catalogue includes the elegantly terrifying score for The Orphanage (produced by Del Toro) and another team up with director J.A. Bayona to provide the lyrical tones for natural disaster epic The Impossible. Both colleberations have ended with Velázquez earning global music nominations for his work. Should this house of horrors end up on Academy voters consideration lists (stranger things have happened), a likely area in which it'll thrive will be Best Original Score.
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