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THE PIPER – Christopher Young

January 16, 2024 5 comments

There’s a concept in film music, which doesn’t have a name, in which a film’s score is so much better and more technically accomplished than the film it accompanies, that you wonder how the two things go together at all. It has happened so many times over the years; some composers spend essentially their entire careers stuck in this world, writing astonishingly brilliant music for a series of less-than-stellar films, such that the composer in question never receives the accolades or acknowledgement that their musical talent actually merits. The Piper, by Christopher Young, is one of these. The film is a somewhat gruesome horror film loosely based on the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, which was subsequently turned into a folklore story by the Brothers Grimm. This film is directed by Icelandic filmmaker Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen and stars Charlotte Hope, Oliver Savell, and the late Julian Sands in what would turn out to be his last film prior to his tragic death on Mount Baldy in California a year ago. The plot on IMDB reads: ‘when a composer is tasked with finishing her late mentor’s concerto, she soon discovers that playing the music summons deadly consequences, leading her to uncover the disturbing origins of the melody and an evil that has awakened.’ Read more…