Christopher Young

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.

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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)

Origin

Red Bank, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

composer / music educator / film score composer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

University

University of North Texas College of Music

• Official sitehttp://www.christopher-young.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/officialchristopheryoung/
• Xhttps://x.com/ImChrisYoung
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Young
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504078

Tags

• New Jersey
• composer
• music educator
• film score composer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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