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APPLEWOOD – Penka Kouneva and Deniz Aktaş
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
It’s not often than I feel compelled to write about the music for low-budget straight-to-streaming horror movies because, frankly, they are not usually very good. More often than not they are little more than basic string and keyboard textures punctuated with stingers and musical jump-scares. Unsophisticated, disappointing, just barely functional, with very little to recommend and even less to like out of context. They are often the domain of young up-and-coming composers still finding their feet, and although many of today’s top film music names cut their teeth in the genre, there remain dozens and dozens of others toiling away down there, writing music that nobody hears for films that few people see. Applewood is different. It’s certainly a low-profile and low-budget film, but what it lacks in prestige it more than makes up for in terms of talent and impact. Read more…
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