Christopher Young

Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Crew

Ghost Rider

(Original Music Composer)

Spider-Man 3

(Original Music Composer)

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

(Original Music Composer)

Copycat

(Original Music Composer)

The Dark Half

(Original Music Composer)

Bless the Child

(Original Music Composer)

The Hurricane

(Original Music Composer)

Sweet November

(Original Music Composer)

Jennifer Eight

(Original Music Composer)

The Grudge 2

(Original Music Composer)

The Gift

(Original Music Composer)

Unforgettable

(Original Music Composer)

Bandits

(Original Music Composer)

Rounders

(Original Music Composer)

Wonder Boys

(Original Music Composer)

Creation

(Original Music Composer)

Hard Rain

(Original Music Composer)

Runaway Jury

(Original Music Composer)

Head Above Water

(Original Music Composer)

The Shipping News

(Original Music Composer)

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom

(Original Music Composer)

Love Happens

(Original Music Composer)

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

(Original Music Composer)

Virtuosity

(Original Music Composer)

The Core

(Original Music Composer)

Species

(Original Music Composer)

Swordfish

(Original Music Composer)

The Man Who Knew Too Little

(Original Music Composer)

Hellraiser

(Original Music Composer)

When in Rome

(Original Music Composer)

Barbarian Queen

(Original Music Composer)

Priest

(Original Music Composer)

Drag Me to Hell

(Original Music Composer)

Sinister

(Original Music Composer)

Haunted Summer

(Original Music Composer)

Shortcut to Happiness

(Original Music Composer)

The Black Tulip

(Original Music Composer)

Highpoint

(Original Music Composer)

Def-Con 4

(Original Music Composer)

Trick or Treat

(Original Music Composer)

The Piper

(Music)

The Grudge

(Original Music Composer)

Murder at 1600

(Original Music Composer)

Hider in the House

(Original Music Composer)

Urban Legend

(Original Music Composer)

Rapid Fire

(Original Music Composer)

Love's Routine

(Original Music Composer)

Saving Norman

(Original Music Composer)

The Single Moms Club

(Original Music Composer)

The Smile Man

(Original Music Composer)

The Rum Diary

(Original Music Composer)

Lucky You

(Original Music Composer)

Wheels of Fire

(Original Music Composer)

Tales from The Grudge

(Music)

Bat★21

(Original Music Composer)

Max and Helen

(Music)

Murder at 1600

(Orchestrator)

An Unfinished Life

(Additional Music)

The Big Kahuna

(Original Music Composer)

The Big Kahuna

(Orchestrator)

Species

(Orchestrator)

Entrapment

(Original Music Composer)

The Dorm That Dripped Blood

(Original Music Composer)

Judicial Consent

(Original Music Composer)

The Vagrant

(Original Music Composer)

Tales from the Hood

(Orchestrator)

The Vagrant

(Orchestrator)

Dream Lover

(Original Music Composer)

Something the Lord Made

(Original Music Composer)

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

(Orchestrator)

Hellraiser

(Orchestrator)

Invaders from Mars

(Original Music Composer)

Getting Even

(Original Music Composer)

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

(Original Music Composer)

Creepover

(Music)

The Monkey King

(Original Music Composer)

In Too Deep

(Original Music Composer)

The Country Bears

(Original Music Composer)

The Glass House

(Original Music Composer)

Tales from the Hood

(Original Music Composer)

The Fly II

(Original Music Composer)

Untraceable

(Original Music Composer)

Murder in the First

(Original Music Composer)

The Power

(Original Music Composer)

Beauty Shop

(Original Music Composer)

Norma Jean & Marilyn

(Original Music Composer)

The Telephone

(Original Music Composer)

Judas Kiss

(Original Music Composer)

The Baytown Outlaws

(Original Music Composer)

The Monkey King 2

(Original Music Composer)

Killing Season

(Original Music Composer)

The Informers

(Original Music Composer)

The Ghostmaker

(Original Music Composer)

The Offering

(Original Music Composer)

Deliver Us from Evil

(Original Music Composer)

Set It Off

(Original Music Composer)

Flowers in the Attic

(Original Music Composer)

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

(Original Music Composer)

Sleepwalking

(Original Music Composer)

Fanboy

(Music)

Godzilla 1985

(Music)

American Harvest

(Music)

Pet Sematary

(Original Music Composer)

Scenes of the Crime

(Original Music Composer)

Hush

(Original Music Composer)

The Uninvited

(Original Music Composer)

Gods Behaving Badly

(Music)

Avenging Angel

(Original Music Composer)

Bright Angel

(Music)

The Empty Man

(Original Music Composer)

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

(Original Music Composer)