Fresh off scoring Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Bear McCreary returns to theaters next weekend with Orion and Lars Klevberg’s Child’s Play, and today we’ve got a killer sneak peek!
McCreary’s original motion picture soundtrack for Child’s Play has been released *today*, and Consequence of Sound brings us the film’s official theme song as a sneak preview. The track was scored with an actual “toy orchestra,” McCreary explains, and it features Mark Hamill as Chucky, singing the “Buddi Song” that will play out over the film’s end credits.
“My idea from the beginning was not to score this film using a traditional orchestra, but in fact to score it with a toy orchestra,” McCreary told the site. “This ultimately involved stealing toys from my daughter’s play room and adding bizarre, handheld instruments such as toy pianos, hurdy gurdies, accordions, action figures, Slinkies, slide whistles, Otamatones, melodicas, harmonicas, kazoos, to create an orchestra of sounds. When I pitched the idea to Lars, he loved it, the studio loved it, and I started working. The result is, I think, the most personal score I’ve ever created because 95% of the sounds you’re hearing are me performing on an instrument or singing. I added a string quintet, one ukulele performer, and a session with a choir in Prague, but all the rest I performed myself.”
Be sure to listen the whole way through and catch Child’s Play in theaters on June 21.
