Graeme Revell

Graeme Revell (born in Auckland, New Zealand on October 23, 1955) is a composer of film music.

Revell is a classically trained pianist and French horn player, but also graduated from the University of Auckland with degrees in economics and political science. He worked as a regional planner in Australia and Indonesia and as an orderly in an Australian psychiatric hospital. Later, he was a founding member of the industrial music band SPK, playing keyboards and percussion. The SPK single "In Flagrante Delicto" was the basis for his first film score, for Dead Calm, which won him an Australian Film Industry award.

His musical style is very much electronic and computer-based in nature, yet often utilizes classical instruments or entire arrangements for certain pieces, much like his contemporary counterparts Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham. His orchestral scores throughout the years of his career changes, from Bernard Herrmann-like to Ennio Morricone-like. His music is often re-used from movie to movie and in more recent times he has collaborated with other artists on their albums. After the success of his soundtrack on Red Planet where he used the voice of French singer Emma Shapplin to back up and often lead his score, he collaborated with her on her own album Etterna, producing all of her songs. He has recently been interviewed for the independent documentary Finding Kraftland.

He has been assisted in sound design by dark ambient composer Lustmord.^[1]

Credited soundtracks

Film

• Dead Calm (1989)
• Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
• Till There Was You (1990)
• Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
• Child's Play 2 (1990)
• Deadly (1991)
• Until the End of the World (1991)
• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
• Love Crimes (1992)
• Traces of Red (1992)
• Body of Evidence (1993)
• Boxing Helena (1993)
• Hear No Evil (1993)
• The Crush (1993)
• Ghost in the Machine (1993)
• Hard Target (1993)
• The Crow (1994)
• No Escape (1994)
• Street Fighter (1994)
• S.F.W. (1994)
• Tank Girl (1995)
• The Basketball Diaries (1995)
• A Goofy Movie (1995)
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)

• The Tie That Binds (1995)
• Strange Days (1995)
• Race the Sun (1996)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• Fled (1996)
• The Craft (1996)
• The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
• Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
• The Saint (1997)
• Spawn (1997)
• Chinese Box (1997)
• Suicide Kings (1997)
• The Big Hit (1998)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Phoenix (1998)
• The Negotiator (1998)
• Strike! (1998)
• Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
• Bride of Chucky (1998)
• The Siege (1998)
• Idle Hands (1999)
• Bats (1999)
• Three to Tango (1999)
• Buddy Boy (1999)
• The Insider (1999)
• Gossip (2000)
• Pitch Black (2000)
• Red Planet (2000)
• Attraction (2000)
• Calle 54 (2000)
• Titan A.E. (2000)
• Blow (2001)
• Double Take (2001)
• Don't Say a Word (2001)
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
• Human Nature (2001)
• Collateral Damage (2002)
• Below (2002)
• High Crimes (2002)
• Open Water (2003)
• Out of Time (2003)
• Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
• Daredevil (2003)
• Walking Tall (2004)
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005)
• Sin City (2005)
• The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (2005)
• Goal! (2005)
• Harsh Times (2005)
• The Fog (2005)
• Æon Flux (2005)
• Marigold (2006)
• Grindhouse - segment Planet Terror (2007)
• Bordertown (2007)
• Pineapple Express (2008)
• Street Kings (2008)
• Bolt (2008)

Television and video

• Bangkok Hilton (1988) (mini-series)
• Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
• Tomb Raider (1996)
• Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (1998)
• Bats Abound (1999)
• Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) (mini-series)
• Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
• CSI: Miami (2002)
• Legends (2004)
• Call of Duty 2 (2005) (video game)

References

External links

• Graeme Revell at the Internet Movie Database
• Graeme Revell official site