Cheap Fear Dot Com (Score) (Music) (Nicholas Pike) Price

A horror film whose topicality is tied to the dot-com boom is asking for trouble, and sure enough William Malone's follow-on to House on Haunted Hill turned out to be something of a murky bust. But composer Nicholas Pike's smartly understated score certainly deserves a better hearing. Working from inspirations as diverse as brooding Russian classical motifs, the baroque, and 20th-century modernism, Pike serves up a subtle cocktail of creepiness. On the cues "Alistair Gets Cozy/Cozier," he playfully turns the horror-film clichés of creaking hinges, leaden footsteps, and squeaking doors into wry mini-concertos of dread. There are a few obligatory crashing crescendos, wailing choirs, and action cues in the composer's largely seamless melding of the orchestral and electronic, but overall it's a soundtrack that wisely relies more on spacious dynamics than on cheap jolts to paint its evocative soundscape of dread. --Jerry McCulley

ARTIST:	Nicholas Pike
CATEGORY:	Music
MANUFACTURER:	Varese Sarabande
FEATURES:	Soundtrack
TYPE:	Vocal Music, Film, Pop, Soundtrack, Film Music, Vocal, Original Score, Soundtracks & Film Scores
MEDIA:	Audio CD
TRACKS:	Opening, Alistair Logs On, Cold Bath, Jailhouse Death, Stalking the Prey, Punks on Video, Distressed Furniture, Turnbull's Car Ride, His Wife's View, Badlands, Alistair Gets Cozy, Denise Logs On, Alistair Gets Cozier, Denise in Stairwell, Denise Gets Bugged, Mike Logs On, Mike Enters Site, Mike's Gone, Terry Logs On, Terry Scans Files, Terry Visits Mom, Into the Pool, Terry in the Warped Ward, In the Basement, To the Morgue, To Alistair's Flat, Alistair's Lair, Arriving at the Steel Mill, Confronting Alistair, Alistair Logged Out, Finale
# OF MEDIA:	1
UPC:	030206638820