Christopher Young

Known For: Sound
Born: April 28, 1957
Place of Birth: Redbank, New Jersey, USA

Christopher Young

Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator 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. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his …

Filmography

Passenger

2026 · Original Music Composer

A Natural Selection

2025 · Original Music Composer

Tragic Tones: The Music of Hider in the House

Tragic Tones: The Music of Hider in the House

2025 · Self

The Piper

2023 · Music

Echo 3

2022 · Original Music Composer

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

2022 · Original Music Composer

The Offering

2022 · Original Music Composer

The Empty Man

2020 · Original Music Composer

Pet Sematary

2019 · Original Music Composer

Fanboy

2019 · Music

Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend

2018 · Self

Eli Roth's History of Horror

2018 · Self

Afterbirth: The Evolution of 'Species'

2017 · Self

Score: A Film Music Documentary

2017 · Self

The Monkey King 2

2016 · Original Music Composer

Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II

2015 · Self

The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'

2015

Deliver Us from Evil

2014 · Original Music Composer

The Single Moms Club

2014 · Original Music Composer

The Monkey King

2014 · Original Music Composer

A Madea Christmas

2013 · Original Music Composer

Gods Behaving Badly

2013 · Music

Killing Season

2013 · Original Music Composer

Love's Routine

2013 · Original Music Composer

The Smile Man

2013 · Original Music Composer

Saving Norman

2013 · Original Music Composer

The Black Tulip

2012 · Original Music Composer

Sinister

2012 · Original Music Composer

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

2012 · Self

The Baytown Outlaws

2012 · Original Music Composer

The Rum Diary

2011 · Original Music Composer

The Ghostmaker

2011 · Original Music Composer

Priest

2011 · Original Music Composer

When in Rome

2010 · Original Music Composer

Creation

2009 · Original Music Composer

Love Happens

2009 · Original Music Composer

Drag Me to Hell

2009 · Pedestrian with Cupcake, Original Music Composer

The Uninvited

2009 · Original Music Composer

The Informers

2008 · Original Music Composer

Sleepwalking

2008 · Original Music Composer

Untraceable

2008 · Original Music Composer

Shortcut to Happiness

2007 · Original Music Composer

Spider-Man 3

2007 · Original Music Composer

Lucky You

2007 · Original Music Composer

Ghost Rider

2007 · Original Music Composer

The Grudge 2

2006 · Original Music Composer

Tales from The Grudge

2006 · Music

An Unfinished Life

2005 · Additional Music

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

2005 · Original Music Composer

Beauty Shop

2005 · Original Music Composer

The Grudge

2004 · Original Music Composer

Something the Lord Made

2004 · Original Music Composer

The Core

2003 · Original Music Composer

Runaway Jury

2003 · Original Music Composer

The Country Bears

2002 · Original Music Composer

Scenes of the Crime

2002 · Original Music Composer

The Shipping News

2001 · Original Music Composer

Bandits

2001 · Original Music Composer

The Glass House

2001 · Original Music Composer

Swordfish

2001 · Original Music Composer

Sweet November

2001 · Original Music Composer

The Gift

2000 · Original Music Composer

Bless the Child

2000 · Original Music Composer

Wonder Boys

2000 · Original Music Composer

The Big Kahuna

1999 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

The Hurricane

1999 · Original Music Composer

In Too Deep

1999 · Original Music Composer

Entrapment

1999 · Original Music Composer

Urban Legend

1998 · Original Music Composer

Judas Kiss

1998 · Original Music Composer

Rounders

1998 · Original Music Composer

Hush

1998 · Original Music Composer

Hard Rain

1998 · Original Music Composer

The Man Who Knew Too Little

1997 · Original Music Composer

Murder at 1600

1997 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

Head Above Water

1996 · Original Music Composer

Set It Off

1996 · Original Music Composer

Norma Jean & Marilyn

1996 · Original Music Composer

Unforgettable

1996 · Original Music Composer

Copycat

1995 · Original Music Composer

Virtuosity

1995 · Original Music Composer

Species

1995 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

Tales from the Hood

1995 · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer

Murder in the First

1995 · Original Music Composer

Judicial Consent

1994 · Original Music Composer

Dream Lover

1993 · Original Music Composer

The Dark Half

1993 · Original Music Composer

Jennifer Eight

1992 · Original Music Composer

Rapid Fire

1992 · Original Music Composer

The Vagrant

1992 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

Bright Angel

1990 · Original Music Composer

Last Flight Out

Last Flight Out

1990 · Original Music Composer

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

1990 · Original Music Composer

Max and Helen

1990 · Music

Hider in the House

1989 · Original Music Composer

The Fly II

1989 · Original Music Composer

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

1988 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

Haunted Summer

1988 · Original Music Composer

Bat★21

1988 · Original Music Composer

The Telephone

1988 · Original Music Composer

Flowers in the Attic

1987 · Original Music Composer

Hellraiser

1987 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

American Harvest

1987 · Music

Trick or Treat

1986 · Original Music Composer

Invaders from Mars

1986 · Original Music Composer

Getting Even

1986 · Original Music Composer

Barbarian Queen

1985 · Original Music Composer

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

1985 · Original Music Composer

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom

1985 · Original Music Composer

Godzilla 1985

1985 · Music

Wheels of Fire

1985 · Original Music Composer

DEFCON-4

1985 · Original Music Composer

Avenging Angel

1985 · Original Music Composer

The Power

1984 · Original Music Composer

Highpoint

1982 · Original Music Composer

The Dorm That Dripped Blood

1982 · Original Music Composer

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