‘Hereditary’ and ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Composer on Using Music to Scare the S— Out of Someone
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWayne Bell’s score for Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is in a word unsettling.
Bell and Hooper worked together to conjure up aural elements that mix creepy sound effects with a synth-heavy staccato married with a keyboard that brings the chainsaw to life.For Leatherface’s 2022 reboot, Colin Stetson came on board to craft an equally unnerving environment as the slasher returns.
Of Hooper’s and Bell’s original work almost 50 years ago, Stetson says, admiringly, “That score was genre-exclusionary and abstract.
It was trying to divorce itself from the shackles of the score and sound design to enter a new space.”That separation of genre, Stetson says, opened up doors for him when it came to scoring the new film, out on Netflix Feb.
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