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Moody indie rockers Low and King Black Acid and electronic duo Tom and Andy contribute the eerie soundtrack and score to the new thriller, The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney and directed by one-time video director Mark Pellington (Pearl Jam's "Jeremy," U2's "One").
The movie is based on the 1976 book of the same name, in which Washington Post reporter John A. Keel (Gere's character, renamed John Klein) investigates paranormal happenings in the West Virginia town of Point Pleasant that might or might not be connected to his wife's death.
Pellington describes the tone of the movie as "creepy, beautiful and scary at the same time. Hypnotic, menacing but in an eerie, inviting way. That's kind of the feeling we were going for." And he thought that King Black Acid, who ended up contributing seven song's to the film's soundtrack, would be the perfect band to capture that dark and spooky vibe.
"This was [King Black Acid's] own interpretation based on the imagery and feelings they got from the movie," Pellington says. "It's a different take, not quite as dark as the score."
The score, recorded by Tom and Andy, will be released along with the soundtrack as a two-disc set on January 22nd, three days before the film's release.
Low contributed the soundtrack's single, "Half Light," and Pellington, returning to his old craft, will wrap up work on the video next week. He describes the clip as "left of center" of the typical song-from-a-movie video with only "fragments of scenes from the movie rather than clips and text phrases that give you a story, the mindset and psychology of the movie. It's basically an abstract performance piece."
The track listing for The Mothman Prophecies soundtrack:
"Half Light," Low With Tom and Andy
"Wake Up #37," King Black Acid
"Haunted," King Black Acid
"Collage," Glen Branca
"Great Spaces," King Black Acid
"Rolling Under" King Black Acid
"Half Life," King Black Acid
"Soul Systems Burn," King Black Acid
"Half Light (tail credit)," Low With Tom and Andy
CHRISTINA
SARACENO
(January 11, 2002)