Award-winning composer Joseph Trapanese gets otherwordly in his latest film No One Will Save You, Netflix’s new sci-fi thriller starring Kaitlyn Dever. Adding eerie flare to an otherwise predominately orchestral score, the 30-song soundtrack is a tightly packaged medley of anxiety and sonic exploration, making it an easy contender for standalone listening during the upcoming spooky season.
In No One Will Save You, written and directed by Brian Duffield, Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) is an outcast who finds herself alienated from her community. She finds peace in her childhood home, comforted by nostalgia for the past. One night, Brynn wakes up in a panic to the sound of strange noises which turn out to be coming from alien intruders. Threatening her safety and future, Brynn is forced to fight the extraterrestrial beings if she stands any chance of survival. From 20th Century Studios, No One Will Save You begins streaming on Sept. 22, 2023, exclusively on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America, and Disney+ in all other territories.
Cinemacy is excited to share excerpts from three tracks: “Preparation”, “Bike Into Town”, and “Storm Chaser”, from Netflix’s No One Will Save You, below:
If you’ve seen the trailer, then you know just how important the sound design is to the film’s overall atmospheric unease. There is no dialogue or line delivery of any kind in the trailer, just sound effects, foley, and score. The threat that Brynn faces is heightened by the music, and Trapanese delivers the psychological tension with his haunting score. Using re-recorded fragments of ideas, detuned and reversed with the orchestra, he crafts a tense sonic landscape that will keep audiences on edge. “Preparation”, “Bike Into Town”, and “Storm Chaser” all blend orchestral elements with altered textures that create a uniquely dark and moody ambiance.
Joseph Trapanese began his film scoring career as the key collaborator on some of the most memorable scores of recent cinema history – as arranger and orchestrator for Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy, co-composer, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor for M83’s Oblivion, and co-composer and co-producer with Mike Shinoda for The Raid series. Known for integrating his extensive classical training with his skill producing electronic music, he has crafted uniquely hybrid and inventive scores for a number of films including director Joseph Kosinski’s 2022 sci-fi thriller Spiderhead, Nicolas Cage’s genre-bending 2021 Sundance selection Prisoners of the Ghostland, Disney’s 2019 live-action remake Lady and the Tramp, Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista’s buddy cop action-comedy Stuber, Mads Mikkelson’s 2018 Cannes selection Arctic, Universal’s landmark rap biopic Straight Outta Compton, and the second and third installments of the Divergent series, Insurgent and Allegiant. In addition, he has lent his innovative sound to Netflix’s The Witcher, the critically acclaimed original series Shadow and Bone, and interactive projects for Disney Interactive, EA, Lucasfilm, and Ubisoft.
Hollywood Recordings is releasing the ‘No One Will Save You (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)’ on Friday, September 22nd.
