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My Take
Christopher Young is a composer I associate with dread, in the best way. Hellraiser, Sinister, The Grudge, Drag Me to Hell: he scored some of the most unnerving horror of the last few decades, and horror scoring is brutally hard to do well. It's easy to lean on cheap stingers; Young builds actual atmosphere. The fact that he's also a music educator tells me he thinks about craft, not just effect. I tend to underrate how much a film's fear lives in its score until I imagine those movies silent. His name in the credits is a quiet promise the music will do real work.
Overview
Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil and Pet Sematary.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Christopher Young
- Name (Japanese)
- クリストファー・ヤング
- Reading
- くりすとふぁー・やんぐ
- Born
- April 28, 1954 (age 72)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Horse
- Origin
- Red Bank, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- composer / music educator / film score composer / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of North Texas College of Music
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.