[Thor Joachim Haga]

I saw SEND HELP today, at a press screening – the new Sam Raimi film with an Elfman score. It was a decent film (CAST AWAY meets LORD OF THE FLIES meets THE WAR OF THE ROSES) with some old-school Raimi “gore” touches, but also problematic in some ways (there is no sympathetic character, no “centre”). While I didn’t care much for Elfman’s suspense and action music here, there were some really cool bits, like wordless female vocal, ethnic percussion and the kind of lowkey music he mostly does for indie films, which is what we talked about earlier. I’m very curious to hear how it holds up on album.