"Fans of the genre will absolutely adore the brilliantly polemic and wild attack pieces, plus you also get some of the cleverest and chilling underscore you’ll ever hear." - Score Reviews
"The composition is first-rate and it’s a very effective spook score, which has many moments of melodic poignancy and aggressive musical muscle." - Music from the Movies
"Pushes all the right scary buttons, hits all the right ‘boo’ moments, has plenty of creepy Gothic orchestral grandeur, and earmarks Davidson as a talent to watch." - Movie Music UK
"The fact that a young and relatively unknown composer managed to create such a vast musical soundscape with distinctly brilliant dynamics is indeed admirable and offers glimpses of a bright future for him." - Music on Film
“An excellent score...” - Ain't It Cool News
"A first-rate contribution..." - Fangoria
"One of the most effective things about An American Haunting is its score and sound design..." - About.com
"Caine Davidson’s unsettling score hits the right notes..." - Cincinnati Post
Caine Davidson makes his impressive feature film scoring debut with the spine-chilling orchestral score for Courtney Solomon's ghost story An American Haunting, starring Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood and James D'Arcy. Performed by the prestigious London Symphony Orchestra, the music for An American Haunting is an intense and exciting listening experience. Contrasting atmospheric orchestral writing with aggressive, modernist outbursts of symphonic violence, Caine Davidson shows unusual dramatic skills and a striking musical maturity.
The film is based on true events documented by the State of Tennessee. Between the years 1818-1820, the Bell Family of Red River, Tennessee, was visited by an unknown, unseen presence that terrorized the family. To date, it is the only recorded case in American history where a spirit or entity has caused the death of a human being. The haunting started with strange noises around the farm and the mysterious appearance of a black wolf with piercing yellow eyes. It soon escalated into violent physical contact with family members. The Bell’s youngest daughter was singled out in particular. The Bells searched for rational explanations and ways to rid their house of this entity, but to no avail. The entity would speak to the family in multiple voices that sounded like the wind – promising that one day it would kill.
The subject of over 20 books, the Bell Witch Haunting is the most documented haunting in American history. Even in the modern era, the small Tennessee town where it all started bears witness to the numerous occasions when the entity has come back to haunt its residents.
MMS06005 AN AMERICAN HAUNTING: Original Motion Picture Score
Music composed and conducted by CAINE DAVIDSON
Release date: May 16, 2006
