[Thor Joachim Haga]

I’m pretty sure many Horner fans avoid these two scores because they lack the lush, loud orchestra with complex themes. Plus, they might be allergic to electronics;)

Could be. But I totally agree that Horner had an underrated knack for synths. And I don’t just mean THE NAME OF THE ROSE (which everybody talks about) or the rhythmical figures in something like COMMANDO. I mean all those shimmering, ethereal textures that often pop up in even orchestra-heavy scores, or something like the wonderful and vastly underrated THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES (2007), with those slow, ephemral, almost impressionistic soundscapes. Nobody seems to like that score, but I LOVE it!