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Drag Me To Hell

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Track Listings

1 Drag Me to Hell
2 Mexican Devil Disaster
3 Tale of a Haunted Banker
4 Lamia
5 Black Rainbows
6 Ode to Ganush
7 Familiar Familiars
8 Loose Teeth
9 Ordeal By Corpse
10 Bealing Bells with Trumpet
11 Brick Dogs Ala Carte
12 Muttled Buttled Brain Stew
13 Auto-Da-Fe
14 Concerto to Hell

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The soundtrack to the horror movie DRAG ME TO HELL features music composed by Christopher Young (THE GRUDGE, GHOST RIDER, SPECIES).

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.4 inches; 3.84 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Lakeshore Records
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2009
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ April 30, 2009
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Lakeshore Records
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00284EMKK
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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    4.8 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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  • S. Frost
    5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal Masterpiece by Young!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2009
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    Christopher Young has been my favorite composer since Hellraiser and Hellbound Hellraiser II in the 80's.

    Drag me to Hell is without a doubt his #2 best score (next to Hellbound). He really digs back to his roots with the sounds of horrific darkness, spine chilling choirs, crescendo strings and loud brass that weave a wonderful tale of darkness and suspense.

    He is also able to include echoes of his more recent lighter works in Tales of a Haunted Banker (ie Glass Act from The Uninvited or Shine On from Sleepwalking) that offer a nice break from the terror.

    Young is the most gifted composer of our time and creates sounds that nobody else can even dream of. He is NOT a hack and you will find it hard to discover him copying anyone else (not even himself).

    Buy Drag Me To Hell right now - you won't be disappointed! I cannot stop listening to it...

    Scott - [...]
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  • Elizabeth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2016
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    So much depth and soul! Is a positive review why is this being censored?
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  • Christopher Matthews
    5.0 out of 5 stars This CD
    Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2014
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    I think this album was amazing. I always like to listen to it, and everyone should buy this damn thing.
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  • Jon Broxton
    5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece
    Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2009
    Drag Me To Hell is the best pure horror score I have heard in probably a decade - at least since Brian Tyler's Darkness Falls in 2003, and probably since a great deal before then. It's also one of the best scores of Christopher Young's entire career - and that's saying something for the man who wrote such stellar scores as Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Murder in the First. So, now that I have made these two potentially outrageous statements, let me clarify why I think this is the case.

    Drag Me To Hell is Sam Raimi's return to his roots. A clever, gory, and occasionally very funny horror story in the Evil Dead tradition, Drag Me To Hell stars Alison Lohman as Christine Brown, a New York loan officer with a decent job and a warm, loving boyfriend (Justin Long). However, when she is asked to foreclose and evict an old gypsy woman named Sylvia Ganush (Lorna Raver) from her apartment, Christine finds her life unraveling: she becomes the recipient of an ancient curse which will, quite literally, take her to hell if she does not find a cure in three days. And so, as Christine desperately seeks answers from a psychic, she finds herself beset on all sides by all manner of demons and evil spirits, all of whom are waiting eagerly to claim her soul.

    So: the score. Try to imagine an entire score composed of the enormous gothic orchestral forces of the opening cue from Hellraiser II, combined with the string-based soaring beauty of Murder in the First, the phenomenally complicated musique concrete orchestrations of scores like Invaders from Mars, and the choral inventiveness of, say, Bless the Child, and you are some way to understanding what Drag Me To Hell sounds like. The entire album plays like a compilation of all that is good about Christopher Young's music, but one which never resorts to self-reference. Everything is heightened, bettered, and taken to the next step, always fresh and inventive.

    The opening cue, entitled "Drag Me To Hell", presents the score's core idea: a huge, throbbing orchestra and portentous choir, overlaid with a solo violin theme of such grace and clarity and beauty you almost can't believe it. It's like Joshua Bell stepped into the recording studio and played one of his trademark virtuoso parts; the classicism inherent in the performance raises the music to a whole other level. The solo string motif re-occurs with regularity throughout the score, ensuring that the work has a thematic center.

    The choral work throughout the score is simply superb. In "Mexican Devil Disaster" and "Ordeal By Corpse" it is ethereal and chilly, breathing seductively in your ear, like a siren-song calling you to your doom. In "Lamia" it grows into an ear-splitting cacophony of spooky chattering that will give the unwary listener nightmares, while in "Black Rainbows" it hovers on the periphery of the score, like a dread presence, muttering in the background.

    Some of the orchestral textures and instrumental combinations Young uses are wonderful. In "Mexican Devil Disaster" and "Ordeal By Corpe" he revisits the rasping `devil's horn' sound that was so effective in Hellraiser II, while in "Tale of a Haunted Banker" and "Brick Dogs a la Carte" he introduces another one of those warm-yet-cold beautiful-yet-unsettling string and piano themes which have been a staple of scores like Species, Jennifer 8 and The Gift for many years. "Ode to Ganush" is impressionistic and detail-oriented, with a plucked stand up bass and pizzicato strings to jangle the nerves even more.

    Some of the moments of pure action and horror are terrific and shocking; enormous stingers which make the listener jump out of their seat, before building into terrifying moments of pure dissonance and chaos. "Bealing Bells With Trumpet" and "Buddled Brain Strain" are superb examples of undiluted horror music, in which Young lets loose with every hair-raising, goosebump-giving technique he can muster. There are even moments of brilliant, utterly demented circus-like calliope music, a frenzy of whooping horns and pipe organs, notably in the mind-blowing second half of "Lamia" and in the thunderous "Auto-Da-Fe", which is clearly intended to be a gypsy-like leitmotif for Mrs. Ganush, but which truly has to be heard to be believed.

    The score's tour-de-force set piece is "Loose Teeth", a wonderful 7-minute monstrosity which combines the spooky female choir, the solo violin motif, a frenetic action interlude, and an increasingly loud and dissonant orchestra with monstrous, guttural, demonic moans from a solo male vocalist which are utterly terrifying - it sounds like a beast from the seventh level of Hades is emerging from your speakers with the express purpose of vomiting bile on you while you sit there. This one cue really typifies Chris Young at his horrific best: intelligent musical ideas, wonderfully realized and creative instrumental textures, but with a shocking and scary emotional punch that fulfills the needs of the genre it serves. It's absolutely magnificent.

    And then, to cap it all off, Young expands the main theme further again in the conclusive "Concerto to Hell", which takes the violin element from the opening cue and expands it further into a glorious full orchestral concert piece that touches on all the various elements of the score proper. I would pay to listen to this in a symphony hall.

    Really and truly, I cannot say enough good things about this score. I don't usually gush like this over a score, especially a score to an intentionally tongue-in-cheek over-the-top horror film like Drag Me To Hell. It's just that you so rarely hear scores like this these days; scores which are unafraid to unleash huge orchestral forces, which contain such wonderfully inventive and intricate instrumental and choral performances, which have this much intelligent design, and which are so entertaining on a purely visceral level. I was in raptures from the first note to the last, whether I was marveling at the beauty of the theme writing, or being scared out of my seat by the moments of horrific carnage.

    In recent years I have been somewhat reticent about giving out top marks to scores which patently don't deserve them. I haven't given a 5-star rating to any score since Arsène Lupin and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, although with hindsight I should have given one to The Golden Compass in 2007 too. Drag Me To Hell makes four in five years, and this one is absolutely deserved; it is unquestionably one of the best scores of 2009, in any genre.
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  • Ivan Orozco
    5.0 out of 5 stars the movie drag me to hell is the greatest movie in the universe it rocks ^_^
    Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2016
    the movie drag me to hell is the greatest movie in the universe a true classic the best of the best the movie drag me to hell rocks ^_^
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  • Kevin L. Peery
    5.0 out of 5 stars Drag Me To Hell Score Review
    Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2009
    Ever since I saw the movie Drag Me To Hell on May 29th. I knew I wanted this score. I heard the wonderfulness of this score when I was in the theatres watching the movie. The score that I heard was wonderful, even for the opening sequence of the score was so excellent.
    Its absolutly a wonderful score that deserves great respect when people hear it for the first time. Most wont understand the hard work that falls into place when a composer has to create music. For Christopher Young to create this score for this intense horrorfying movie.
    Most dont understand that Christopher Young didnt just create a score, he created one that deserves to be heard, that deserves to have people while listening to it close there eyes and imagine the horrable images that even Sam Raimi imagined when Christopher Young was composing the music. Its a fantastic score that Christopher Young has created for this film.
    I even like the begining song called "Drag Me To Hell" it brings you into the story imediatly then when it comes to all of the other songs you can see the great monstrosity of the film come into your head while you hear the songs of this score.
    Its fantastic just like Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the darkness in that score is good to, but I would have to say that Drag Me To Hell's score beats Harry Potter 6 score in pure darkness.
    I love this score, and I will always listen to it because I love it so much.
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  • D. Sinclair
    5.0 out of 5 stars One word.........
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2009
    ...........FANTASTIC! Just like the movie, the score is unbelieveable! I can't stop listening to it. Amazing!
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  • マホ
    5.0 out of 5 stars バイオリンが作品に合っている
    Reviewed in Japan on September 4, 2023
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    この映画が大好きで曲も内容にぴったり
    序盤の不穏な雰囲気が怖さ倍増
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  • Kevin Lebouvier
    5.0 out of 5 stars Terrible
    Reviewed in France on August 2, 2018
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    Merci beaucoup
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  • jylikiik
    5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling and fun horror from the master
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2015
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    Drag Me to Hell is the soundtrack that brought the music and style of Christopher Young to my attention. Young is a veteran of chilling, effective and complicated horror music. Drag Me to Hell represents Young at his very best and serves as a perfect example of all that is good about his horror writing. The album contains a very hellish main theme written for solo violin, symphony orchestra and choir and that theme is developed throughout the album receiving its pinnacle in the last track called Concerto to Hell. Between the first and last track the listener is going to experience some truly horrifying musical moments and also beauty because Young has written one of the most delicate themes of his career that is introduced in the track called Tale of a Haunted Banker. All in all this is one of the very best horror soundtracks I've ever heard and the one album that made me a fan of Christopher Young. This is not to be missed if you are interested in horror soundtracks.
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  • Trota
    5.0 out of 5 stars OST de colección obligada
    Reviewed in Mexico on May 8, 2019
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    Si te encantó la película, la música te hará recordar cada escena; el CD contiene toda la música usada en el filme e incluye versiones alternativas, aunque la descripción dice que es un disco, en realidad son 2, es una Edición Limitada a 500 copias. El único detalle es que hay algunos tracks cuyo volumen es muy bajo, pero nada que se solucione subiéndolo un poco. Muy recomendable, me encantó. Amazon cumplió en tiempo y forma como siempre.
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  • jsjunior
    5.0 out of 5 stars menecing horror movie.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2014
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    right from the start with the classic theme music and graphic titles it portrays the fear of menace. the first scene tells you this is going to be a edge of seat horror movie.a true classic from sam rami
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