Ok, we don’t really care about most horror, but having just heard Brian Reitzell’s brooding and ambient score to “30 Days of Night,” we must admit we’re kind of interested to see this movie just to see how the ominous and sometimes tribally-violent-sounding tracks are used.
The upcoming horror/vampire film stars Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, and the always-intense Ben Foster who is quickly becoming (among with Emile Hirsch) one of the most talked about breakout actors of this year (a “3:10 To Yuma” supporting nomination this year, anyone?)
We digress. Regardless, while not on the soundtrack disc (which came out October 23) according to our readers, Mogwai’s “Auto-Rock” is one of the last songs used in the film (Reitzell was also the music supervisor) and it’s a grand choice.
The always inventive Reitzell (a fave music collaborator for Sofia Coppola) gerry-rigged up a pottery wheel and affixed items like drum mallets and sticks to record weird and frightening sounds.
“I was trying to figure out the different sounds and colors and instruments to use,” Reitzell explained. “I thought if someone came at me with an ax or was trying to kill me or eat me, that was going to be such a horrific experience and was going to be totally new and unfamiliar, so I didn’t think what I was going to hear was something like an orchestra.”
Download: Mogwai – “Auto Rock”
“30 Days of Night” trailer
