Strings trembling under snowfall, brass swelling into full horror. Jason Graves scored Until Dawn for PS4 and turned a teen slasher premise into something that sounds genuinely cinematic. The Shadow of the Mountain opens with this creeping orchestral tension that sets the whole tone.
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Chris and Ashley is one of the quieter pieces, fragile piano over soft strings that makes the romantic moments land before everything goes sideways. Run or Hide pushes into frantic territory with stabbing orchestral hits and racing percussion.
Icicle Elegy is exactly as cold as it sounds. The O Death theme ties everything together with folk-horror weight. If you played through every branching path trying to keep everyone alive, this score was doing half the emotional work.