Red Eye

For this Wes Craven film, Marco Beltrami's score was essential in creating a rhythm that begins with a thematic alert, seguing to intimately dark suspense and vulnerability, finally and amping up into intense action—musical transformations driven by the film's tight editing.

Beltrami presents his exhilarating e-ticket flight with nearly all of Red Eye's themes on display within the main title, severing the function of a well-structured overture. He sets up the hybrid nature of his score with dark electronics and scraping metal in its menacing start, then bursts onto the scene in a throttling symphonic drive. Beltrami lets us know that some unknown conspiracy involving the government is underway.

This long-overdue album was mastered directly from the two-track digital session mixes vaulted at Paramount Pictures. Recorded by John Kurlander at the scoring stages for both Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox, the audio is crisp and vibrant.