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Underworld: Do Not Disturb
Review by Edmund Meinerts
Attracting something of a cult following and consistently performing well at the box office despite scathing critical reviews across the board, the UNDERWORLD series proves that all you really need to earn money in Hollywood these days is Kate Beckinsale in a tight leather outfit. Throw in a few battles between supernatural creatures – vampires, werewolves, the usual types – and the result is a series of films where style is clearly prioritized over substance. Fortunately, films such as this would seem to offer ripe ground for a composer to let rip with some equally stylish horror music – unfortunately, that’s rarely the case with this series, and the fourth entry is hardly an exception to that rule.
To take a hybrid approach to the UNDERWORLD film scores would seem to be a logical move, considering the similarly hybrid creatures battling it out on the screen. Therefore, PAUL HASLINGER was approached to score the first film. HASLINGER, a former member of the electronic music group TANGERINE DREAM, has been dabbling with film scoring ever since that group’s own forays into the genre in the 80s, before lending his electronic programming services to GRAEME REVELL’S scores in the late 90s and early 00s. UNDERWORLD represented HASLINGER’S first exposure to the mainstream, and he responded with a primarily industrial score that offered both the necessary grungy drive for the fight scenes, and a handful of compelling softer ideas. It was never the most refined of scores, but the modern approach worked for the franchise.
Read the full score review: http://tracksounds.com/reviews/underworld_awakening_paul_haslinger.htm
This article talks about the score of the film, which is awesome, but I would like to talk about the actual soundtrack with songs. Every outsider, every goth kid, etc, needs a good soundtrack. All of the Underworld movies have excellent soundtracks. I have actually seen all the Underworld movies in theaters, and I have sat through the credits just to hear those awesome songs.
If you are a rock lover you will love the Underworld soundtracks. Some great bands from the soundtracks include, Black Light Burns, Puscifer, and Aiden. Plus there are some songs remixed by the great Danny Loner who was a member of Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle. It's full of haunting melodies any vampire/werewolf lover will want to sink their teeth into.