While Volume One of the Splatterhouse reboot soundtrack was all thrash metal and face-smashing riffs, this second volume is where the horror actually lives. Reflections In Blood and Shadow Of The Abyss are dark ambient pieces that sit in your chest like dread, slow-moving synths and dissonant textures that make West Mansion feel genuinely haunted.
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The Wicker Bride is deeply unsettling, all warped sounds and ghostly atmosphere. Then there's that Ode to John Carpenter bonus track, which tips its hand about exactly what vibe this score is chasing. Sewer Of Meat manages to make a ridiculous track name sound genuinely oppressive.
If you only heard the metal side of this game, the ambient half is where the real nightmare lives.