Scarcely known given his, up until now, small contribution to the cinema, Marco Beltrami accomplished a solid entry in the market of the soundtracks thanks to Scream (1996), the successful Wes Craven film. Disciple of Jerry Goldsmith, this very young composer of Italian origin was the natural election of director Guillermo del Toro for
Mimic, a horror film on gigantic insects in the sewage of New York, but in spite his studies with the Californian master, his musical similarities in this work approach him more to Christopher Young (perhaps in an unavoidable way given the presence of Pete Anthony, one of Young's customary orchestrators, as one of the responsibles of the orchestral treatment), but at the same time permit him multitude of very interesting personal details; Beltrami has created with Mimic one of the better Gothic Horror scores of the last years, supported in a great orchestra, certain electronic touches and an effective choir; cues as Race to the Subway - Time To Separate or Evil Among US - Confronting Terror reveal a unusual power, the same as the emotion contained of Manny Searches For His Son, or the splendid Slow Tango. As ironical ending, La Cucaracha (The Coakroach), that though is closed with a reference to the famous mexican song, it is closer to Bryan Adams' songs that to any Mexican theme. M.A.F.
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