The result is, I think, the most personal score I’ve ever created because 95% of the sounds you’re hearing are me performing on an instrument or singing. “When I pitched the idea to Lars, he loved it, the studio loved it, and I started working. “This ultimately involved stealing toys from my daughter’s play room and adding bizarre, handheld instruments such as toy pianos, hurdy gurdies, accordions, action figures, Slinkies, slide whistles, Otamatones, melodicas, harmonicas, kazoos, to create an orchestra of sounds.” “My idea from the beginning was not to score this film using a traditional orchestra, but in fact to score it with a toy orchestra,” McCreary explained. I collaborated with screenwriter Tyler Burton Smith to craft lyrics that felt fun, upbeat, and pleasant, but could also have a sinister spin, depending on Mark Hamill’s performance.”Īnother exciting part of the film’s music is that it very appropriately includes toy instruments and other unorthodox approaches, giving it a child-like feel with genuine sinister undertones. The theme also functions as ‘The Buddi Song,’ a song that exists within the fictional world of the movie, programmed into the Buddi doll. It’s the dramatic underscore for Chucky which supports emotion, warmth, and curiosity and also danger, menace, and murder. The melody of the ‘Theme from Child’s Play’ serves two functions in the film. “Chucky singing ‘The Buddi Song’ was a conceit of the new Child’s Play script, and Lars’ vision, and I was very excited to write this song and theme. These two vocal performances signify Chucky’s arc within the film, and you hear within Mark’s performance that range of character.” Together, we crafted a song that became the end credits of the film an upbeat, pleasant version of ‘The Buddi song.’ Mark is very dynamic, and was able to do both a pleasant version and an evil version of the song. “He dove into the experience head first and was a joy to work with. “I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to work Mark Hamill in creating the ‘Child’s Play Theme,’” he commented. The film’s score overall shares that unique quality, as McCreary explained in an interview with Consequence of Sound This preview coincidences with the release of the official soundtrack, which you can grab up digitally from Amazon, but regarding the track itself, it’s certainly a unique one as it features Mark Hamill’s Chucky voice work in a delightfully-creepy way. Although the composer released a little sneak preview a couple months back, we now have the full, extended theme available for you to listen to above. Love it or hate it, the Child’s Play remake is fast approaching its June 21st release date and one of the highlights of the finished product will no doubt be its music, composed by The Walking Dead’s Bear McCreary.
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