For their first horror-related project together,
The Cabin in the Woods, director-writer team Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, LOST, Alias) and Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse) tapped composer
David Julyan to put their slasher sendup to music. Having worked with director Chris Nolan on the scores of his films Memento, Insomnia, and The Prestige,
Julyan is no stranger to evoking a brooding, paranoid atmosphere, and with the score to
The Cabin in the Woods, he spends the first half setting the mood and building tension on tracks like the spectral "The Diary of Patience Buckner" before opening Pandora's box. Then the score reawakens, brimming with suspenseful buildups and surprising twists in "I Thought There'd Be Stars," and later the sharp strings of "Whatever Happens, We Have to Stay Calm" suggest anything but. ~ Chrysta Cherrie