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Ghost Ship (2002)
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  Nice...but kinda familiar,
by Alex (August 29, 2006)
John Frizzell's score for the 2002 horror film "Ghost Ship" is quite nice as far as scores of these types go, even though many of the tracks will sound kinda familiar to the veteran film score fan (especially those who are horror film fans), as this soundtrack isn't entirely original. But don't get me wrong, this IS a good score--Performed by a small orchestra and accompanied by some electronic ambient effects, there are some nicely-composed, gentle tracks to be found here ("Repairs", "The Souls Ascend" "Katie Disappears", "Kate's Doll" and the jazzy "Francensca's Theme" come to mind as nice examples of quieter, more restrained writing) as well as some more grandios, heroic themes such as "The Discovery" and "The Deal". There is also some fairly standard "quiet...quiet...slash!! slash!!" moments in the score that could have bogged it down, but these tracks are thankfully pretty sparse and thus don't really hurt the score as a whole. I guess most of the music on this disc would fall into the more ambient category, though there are a few particular tracks here I really though were great--"Santos Dies", "Go To Hell", "Greer's Body" and "Murphy's Body". These particular tracks are highlighted by some really beautiful, unusual (for a film of the horror genre) and moving choral arrangements. If nothing else, these tracks (among a few other) qualify at least one listening of the album.
I wasn't too big on the sole band song on the album,"My Little Box", but with almost 74 minutes of film score, I was pretty happy there was only one non-score piece to be found here.
Frizzell's work here is heavy on atmosphere and ambience and pretty light on motifs, but there is definitely some quality scoring on display here.
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