It would have been great to hear, for instance, the wild “ Trouble in Woodsboro” theme that highlighted the first two films, or for Tyler to feature the same unusual synth- western sound that Beltrami innovated.īut again, maybe I’m missing the point by focusing so much on the past.
I must admit that as a major fan of both Scream and its soundtracks I was disappointed not to hear more classic themes.
“ Sidney’s Theme” appears briefly, and the controversial “ Dewey’s Theme”-actually a Hans Zimmer composition for Broken Arrow that Craven used in Scream 2 against Beltrami’s wishes-shows up in the haunting “ Sacrifice.” (Curiously, neither Beltrami nor Zimmer are credited in the liner notes.) Tyler largely creates his own music and rarely quotes the themes Beltrami originated. The main quality Tyler echoed from Beltrami was sweeping emotion Scream has always been an emotionally charged, melodramatic series, and this music reflects and compliments that. Listening to the album gave me a chance to pay closer attention to Tyler’s work. I didn’t particularly notice it while watching Scream, which can be the mark of a good score-after all, it should feel part and parcel of the experience and not necessarily draw undue attention to itself. Tyler’s music definitely serves the film well in that it integrates pretty seamlessly into the movie. Brian Tyler composed the music for the directors’ previous film Ready or Not and has scored a number of horror movies prior to this, including The Final Destination, Escape Room, and The Mummy (2017). Then again, the new film is explicitly about “passing the torch,” so it perhaps makes sense to have fresh talent both behind and in front of the camera. If filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Opin and Tyler Gillett wanted to honor the legacy that Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson created with their new film, why not enlist the man who gave the series such a distinctive musical voice?
I feel like I should admit a bias/concern I had about the new Screamsoundtrack right off the bat: it’s not by Marco Beltrami, who composed the memorable music for Screams 1-4.
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