Christopher Young - (Violin) Concerto to Hell (2009)

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.

Please support my channel on
https://Ko-fi.com/bartjebartmans

"End Credits" (Concerto to Hell) from the Movie "Drag Me to Hell" (2009)
Movie directed and score orchestrated by Sam Raimi

Olga Babtchinskaia, violin
Orchestra and conductor?

Christopher Young composed the score for Drag Me to Hell, reuniting with Raimi after The Gift (2000) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). Raimi stated that emphasis was on using the soundtrack to create a world that didn't exist, a world of the "supernatural". For Young, this was an opportunity to return to his Evil Dead roots as well, which led to his voluntary involvement. When he saw the first cut, he was immediately connected with it owing to his return to the horror world and how it is about the devil, as Young previously did three films before that. In particular, Raimi also encouraged Young to experiment with the score.

The violin was the principal instrument in the score as it was historically attached to the Devil both in music and literature. Hence, he could not bring anything unique, though Young tried to imagine that the violin is being played with ten fingers. He noted that whoever plays the violin had to be responsible for initiating the pitch with either their bow or fingers on hand, while pressing the strings to obtain the pitch on the other. He then told Raimi to use both hands for playing the violin and not use the bow, thereby having the idea of stretching and expanding the violin through both hands which normal violinists could not do, which Raimi loved. Hence most of the violin material in the score could never be played by one person, but instead multiple tracking of one guy playing different tracks on top of the other. Besides the violin, the score also featured choir and pipe organ.

Elements of Young's previous work on Flowers in the Attic. (1987) is incorporated in the film through the utilization of the childlike soprano vocals recurrently appear in the score.