Graeme Revell (born 23 October, 1955 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand musician and composer. He rose to fame in the 1980s as frontman of the industrial/electronic act SPK. Since 1989, he has worked mainly as a film composer.
Some of Revell's film scores include:
- Dead Calm (1989)
- Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
- Child's Play 2 (1990)
- The People Under the Stairs (1991)
- Until the End of the World (1991)
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
- Body of Evidence (1992)
- Boxing Helena (1993)
- Hard Target (1993)
- Ghost in the Machine (1993)
- No Escape (1994)
- The Crow (1994)
- Street Fighter (1994)
- Tank Girl (1995)
- The Basketball Diaries (1995)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
- Strange Days (1995)
- From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
- The Craft (1996)
- Fled (1996)
- The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
- The Saint (1997)
- Spawn (1997)
- Chinese Box (1997)
- Suicide Kings (1997)
- The Big Hit (1998)
- The Negotiator (1998)
- Bride of Chucky (1998)
- The Siege (1998)
- Idle Hands (1999)
- Three to Tango (1999)
- Bats (1999)
- Pitch Black (2000)
- Titan A.E. (2000)
- Red Planet (2000)
- Double Take (2001)
- Blow (2001)
- Human Nature (2001)
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
- Collateral Damage (2002)
- Below (2002)
- Daredevil (2003)
- Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
- Out of Time (2003)
- Open Water (2003)
- Walking Tall (2004)
- The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
- Sin City (2005)
- The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005)
- Harsh Times (2005)
- The Fog (2005)
- Γon Flux (2005)
- Man of the Year (2006)
- Planet Terror (2007)
- The Condemned (2007)
- Awake (2007)
- The Ruins (2008)
- Street Kings (2008)
- Pineapple Express (2008)
- Unthinkable (2010)
- Shark Night (2011)
- Riddick (2013)
This composer provides examples of the following tropes:
- Electronic Music: He began his career working in the genre, and even after going into film scoring he often incorporated some elements thereof into his work, akin to that of Italian cinema music mastreo Ennio Morricone and Italian genre music vet Stelvio Cipriani.
- In the Style of: Both of his Child's Play assignments seem to be channeling Danny Elfman (along with Bernard Herrmann in the first outing and Ennio Morricone and Stelvio Cipriani in his second) in some way.
- One-Woman Wail: His Ennio Morricone-Stelvio Cipriani-Spaghetti Western-esque score on The Crow (1994) has a lot of this going on, tying in to the film's themes of grief, resurrection, and revenge.
