by Demetris Christodoulides on 6/6/2008
favorite track: 18
 
Shyamalan always brings the best out of the composer and boy it's been a long time since we last heard something like that from him! This is old-fashioned horror scoring with balls, like it should always be; From Giacchino's Roar to War of the Worlds (Williams) and to JNH's own Signs (similar piano motif) and The Village, it's all here making up a top-class modern horror score. Loving it.

Nobody composes music at the level of "Be With You" or the frantic "End Title Suite" anymore. I just didn't expect to hear such brilliance in today's film music, my appreciation for JNH rises even more with each and every Shyamalan project and I truly think he's one of the few composers today who's able to be modern and simultaneously inventive, deeply surprising us each time. I am very impressed by this dark masterpiece.