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Christopher Young
Redbank, New Jersey, USA
Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, includ…
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Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Passenger
Movie Original Music Composer
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2025
A Natural Selection
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2025
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2023
The Piper
Movie Music
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2022
Echo 3
TV show Original Music Composer
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2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
TV show Original Music Composer
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2022
The Offering
Movie Original Music Composer
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2020
The Empty Man
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
Pet Sematary
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
Fanboy
Movie Music
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2018
Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
Movie Self
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2018
Eli Roth's History of Horror
TV show Self
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2017
Afterbirth: The Evolution of 'Species'
Movie Self
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2017
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Movie Self
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2016
The Monkey King 2
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2015
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- 2015
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2014
Deliver Us from Evil
Movie Original Music Composer
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2014
The Single Moms Club
Movie Original Music Composer
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2014
The Monkey King
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
A Madea Christmas
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
Gods Behaving Badly
Movie Music
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2013
Killing Season
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
Love's Routine
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
The Smile Man
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
Saving Norman
Movie Original Music Composer
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2012
The Black Tulip
Movie Original Music Composer
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2012
Sinister
Movie Original Music Composer
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2012
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Movie Self
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2012
The Baytown Outlaws
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
The Rum Diary
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
The Ghostmaker
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
Priest
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
When in Rome
Movie Original Music Composer
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2009
Creation
Movie Original Music Composer
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2009
Love Happens
Movie Original Music Composer
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2009
Drag Me to Hell
Movie Pedestrian with Cupcake
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2009
The Uninvited
Movie Original Music Composer
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2008
The Informers
Movie Original Music Composer
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2008
Sleepwalking
Movie Original Music Composer
