Music Composed by Douglas Pipes

Columbia Pictures and
Executive Producers Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg
Present

MONSTER HOUSE is an exciting and hilarious thrill-ride of a tale about three kids who must do battle with a mysterious house that threatens anyone who crosses its path.

Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Jason Lee, Catherine O’Hara, Kathleen Turner and Fred Ward are among the stars on board for this summer haunting. The digital animation of this state-of-the-art film was produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks.

The grand symphonic score for MONSTER HOUSE was composed by newcomer Douglas Pipes.

MONSTER HOUSE, a co-production of Sony Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, opens nationwide on July 21.

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Gil took us into his office and showed us some really early CG tests on the house coming to life which were very cool. I couldn’t help but notice a vintage Moog keyboard in his office and asked him if he was a fan of that style of music.

"Oh yeah I love those old synthesizer scores. No one is doing that stuff anymore and that is exactly what we are going for on this film."

When I asked him about the old film score styles of John Carpenter and Alan Howarth his eyes just lit up.

"Exactly, like the band Goblin. Have you ever heard of them?"

Safe to say I was beginning to like him more and more as the conversation went on and felt that much better about him being the director on this project.

Since the topic had turned to music he took us into an office which looked like an old synthesizer museum and introduced us to his composer Douglas Pipes. He met Douglas in film school at UCLA where he scored the short film that got him the directing job. It was nice to see that Gil remained loyal to his film school buddy and brought him along for the ride.

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Originally posted by Bond1965:
The grand symphonic score for MONSTER HOUSE was composed by newcomer Douglas Pipes.

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