Christopher Young - Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light) (2000)
Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
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From the movie "Bless the Child" (2000)
Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light)
Boy Soloist: Domonic Brown, Oliver Paton
London Metropolitan Orchestra and Session Chorus conducted by Allan Wilson
"Lux Aeterna" is a choral and orchestral movement from Christopher Young’s 2000 original score for the film Bless the Child, composed and produced by Young for Paramount Pictures. The piece is part of a suite of Latin liturgical-inspired movements, including Introitus, Kyrie Eleison, Dies Irae, and Agnus Dei, all scored for the London Metropolitan Orchestra and choir.
The orchestration for Bless the Child (2000) was handled by a team of collaborators, with Christopher Young himself credited as a co‑orchestrator alongside Pete Anthony, Jon Kull, Bruce Babcock, Frank Bennett, John Bell, and others
Bless the Child is a 2000 supernatural horror film directed by Chuck Russell, and starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Christina Ricci, and Holliston Coleman. Based on the 1993 novel by Cathy Cash Spellman. Bless the Child was released theatrically in North America on August 11, 2000, to overwhelmingly negative critical reviews, and was a box-office bomb.
The film was nominated for one Razzie Award (parody show honoring the worst cinematic failures), Worst Actress for Kim Basinger, along with I Dreamed of Africa, but lost to Madonna for The Next Best Thing.
This is a prime example of a composer/orchestrator delivering quality work for a failing movie production.