Graeme Revell
New Zealand musician, composer · New Zealand · On the map · Musicians · Born 1955 · age 71
The New Zealander who led industrial group SPK through the 1980s before pivoting entirely - now he writes film scores, the kind that sit under chase scenes and comic-book violence, from The Crow to Sin City.
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Vin Diesel Graeme wrote Pitch Black (2000)
John Leguizamo Graeme wrote Collateral Damage and Spawn
Juliette Lewis Graeme wrote From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
Robert Rodriguez Duets: Frank Miller's Sin City - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2005)
Ernie Hudson Graeme wrote The Crow and The Basketball Diaries
Bruce Willis Graeme wrote Sin City and The Siege
Jessica Alba Graeme wrote Sin City and Awake
Denzel Washington Graeme wrote The Siege and Out of Time
Jean-Claude Van Damme Graeme wrote Hard Target and Street Fighter
Michael Clarke Duncan Graeme wrote Sin City and Daredevil
Val Kilmer Graeme wrote The Saint and Red Planet
Iggy Pop Graeme wrote Tank Girl (1995)
Karl Urban Graeme wrote The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Cliff Curtis Graeme wrote Blow and Collateral Damage
Patrick Gallagher Graeme wrote Street Kings and Walking Tall
Rajesh Roshan Graeme produced Kites (2010)
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, I feel just as much compulsion to be an architect, for example, as I do a musician.
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Revell built his name fronting SPK, an industrial rock outfit that marked the 1980s before he turned to scoring films. His first work came with Dead Calm in 1989, then the pivot stuck. Through the 1990s and 2000s he became the go-to for genre pictures - The Crow in 1994, From Dusk till Dawn and The Craft in 1996, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001, Daredevil and Freddy vs. Jason in 2003, Sin City in 2005. He also scored the Riddick films and other work with director David Twohy. Eight BMI Film Music Awards and an AACTA later, the career sits in that strange space where the music is everywhere but the name stays in the credits.
