Matt Jantzen

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Matt Jantzen

Sound 45 March 21, 1981

Geneva, Switzerland

Matt Jantzen was born in 1981 in Geneva, Switzerland. He started composing film music in 2006 and now has a total of around 60 full features films, short movies, documentaries and…

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Movie 43

Movie 43

4.7 2013 Movie
Black Summer

Black Summer

6.9 2019 TV Show
Distorted

Distorted

4.9 2018 Movie
13 Eerie

13 Eerie

4.7 2013 Movie
Stay Out of the Attic

Stay Out of the Attic

5.5 2020 Movie
Cold Ground

Cold Ground

5.6 2017 Movie
Krampus Origins

Krampus Origins

5.5 2018 Movie
Magi

Magi

5.6 2016 Movie
Residue

Residue

5.8 2017 Movie
Sorority Party Massacre

Sorority Party Massacre

4.2 2012 Movie
Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper

Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper

4.7 2016 Movie
Breakdown Lane

Breakdown Lane

3.6 2017 Movie

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Matt Jantzen was born in 1981 in Geneva, Switzerland. He started composing film music in 2006 and now has a total of around 60 full features films, short movies, documentaries and advertising since his first score for "La Vraie Vie d'Arthur" (which he co-composed with fellow composer and famous Swiss pianist Eric Bakhch-Pour). He scored his first full feature film "Born of Earth" in 2008 and then continued to score short movies the following years. Many of his short movies scores, including "The Last Rung on the Ladder", "Abyss", "She", "The Wound", "Picturesque", "The Remains of Clayton Lake" and "Death Crocodile", were well received from the public, movie critics and in film festivals. Among his next compositions one can find the score for a documentary on the "Saw" franchise, the acclaimed short films "Sundays" and "Fuoco" and segments from the comedy anthology "Movie 43" starring Hugh Jackman, Dennis Quaid, Chris Pratt, Chloë Grace Moretz and Richard Gere that directly lead him to return scoring full feature horror film as "After Midnight", "The Blackout", the TV movie "Demon Legacy" and the acclaimed crime drama "Savior of None" in 2014. Then Matt scored several feature films as "No Solicitors", "The Encounter", "Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper", "Residue", "Havana Darkness", "Hitchhiker Massacre", "Ravers", "This Old Machine", "Freshwater", "Exit 18" and some additional music works for "13 Eerie", "Sorority Party Massacre" and more recently the theatrical release "Distorted" starring Christina Ricci and John Cusack. He also provided some atmospheric drone music to the Netflix TV Show "Black Summer". Among his latest work one can find the scores to the horror film "It Hungers", the monster movies "Abominable" and "Amityville Island", the critically acclaimed horror / thriller "Red Handed", segments from the horror anthology "Horror Nights" and the action / horror movie "Shadow in the Cloud" starring Chloë Grace Moretz.

Filmography

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  1. 2024
    Shark Island

    Movie Original Music Composer

  2. 2024
    Amityville Bigfoot

    Movie Original Music Composer

  3. 2022
    Amityville in Space

    Movie Original Music Composer

  4. 2022
    House Squatch

    Movie Original Music Composer

  5. 2021
    Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse

    Movie Original Music Composer

  6. 2021
    Dune World

    Movie Original Music Composer

  7. 2021
    Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island

    Movie Original Music Composer

  8. 2021
    There's Something in the Shadows

    Movie Original Music Composer

  9. 2021
    Devil's Island

    Movie Original Music Composer

  10. 2020
    Red Handed

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2020
    Killer Weekend

    Movie Original Music Composer

  12. 2020
    Stay Out of the Attic

    Movie Original Music Composer

  13. 2020
    Lost Boys

    Movie Original Music Composer

  14. 2020
    Ravers

    Movie Original Music Composer

  15. 2020
    Ocean

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 2020
    Horror Shark

    Movie Original Music Composer

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  1. 2020
    Abominable

    Movie Original Music Composer

  2. 2020
    Horror Nights

    Movie Music

  3. 2020
    Amityville Island

    Movie Original Music Composer

  4. 2019
    Susan Hill's Ghost Story

    Movie Original Music Composer

  5. 2019
    It Hungers

    Movie Original Music Composer

  6. 2019
    2177: The San Francisco Love Hacker Crimes

    Movie Original Music Composer

  7. 2019
    Black Summer

    TV show Original Music Composer

  8. 2019
    Havana Darkness

    Movie Original Music Composer

  9. 2018
    Demon

    Movie Original Music Composer

  10. 2018
    Hangover in Death Valley

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2018
    Shutter

    Movie Original Music Composer

  12. 2018
    Watch If You Dare

    Movie Original Music Composer

  13. 2018
    Krampus Origins

    Movie Original Music Composer

  14. 2018
    Frozen Sasquatch

    Movie Original Music Composer

  15. 2018
    Distorted

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 2018
    Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece

    Movie Original Music Composer

  17. 2018
    DeadThirsty

    Movie Original Music Composer

  18. 2018
    Dead by Midnight (11PM Central)

    Movie Original Music Composer

  19. 2017
    Freshwater

    Movie Original Music Composer

  20. 2017
    This Old Machine

    Movie Original Music Composer

  21. 2017
    Cold Ground

    Movie Original Music Composer

  22. 2017
    Derelict

    Movie Original Music Composer

  23. 2017
    Residue

    Movie Original Music Composer

  24. 2017
    Paranoia Tapes

    Movie Original Music Composer