Sony Music Masterworks today announces the release of The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with music by Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning composer Bear McCreary. Available everywhere Friday, August 11, the album features music written by McCreary for the horror film, which is based on a chapter from Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula. For the film, McCreary has crafted a unique soundscape that manages to capture the film's eighteenth century setting while also incorporating modern instrumentation and techniques, with the resulting music as chilling as the film itself. The Last Voyage of the Demeter arrives in theaters Friday, August 11 from Universal Pictures.
Of the soundtrack, composer Bear McCreary says, "I dove into scoring The Last Voyage of the Demeter as if it were a rite of passage! Writing a theme for a cinematic depiction of Bram Stoker's iconic Dracula is a dream come true for any film composer. I was inspired by the eerie, ominous atmosphere that visionary director André Řvredal managed to craft with this film. Hoping to take the audience back to the eighteenth century with symphonic orchestra, choir, and rustic folk fiddles, I also strove to tell a modern tale of horror with distorted French horns, screeching hurdy gurdy harmonics, and hideous atonal colors. Just as Dracula is a foreign beast to the sailors of the Demeter, these modern cinematic sounds slither ominously throughout the traditional symphonic colors to create a sound that I hope is equally inviting and terrifying."