For the fourth installment of director George Romero's Night of the Living Dead series, Run Lola Run composers
Reinhold Heil and
Johnny Klimek bring the genre into the electronic world with a soundtrack that can only be described as "horror ambient." An unintelligible cyclone of wind, ominous keyboards, deep percussion, and staccato bursts of strings await masochistic listeners who have always wondered what it would be like to be trapped in a Hieronymus Bosch painting. At 36 tracks, it's a bit long too listen to in one sitting, but soundtrack connoisseurs can be a remarkably patient lot. While not even remotely enjoyable, Land of the Dead achieves primal fear through its complete and utter disregard for melody. ~ James Christopher Monger