Graeme Revell
Highest Rated: 100% Days of Wrath (2008)
Lowest Rated: 4% The Fog (2005)
Birthday: Oct 23, 1955
Birthplace: Auckland, New Zealand
Graeme Revell took a fairly circuitous route to a career scoring films. The Auckland, New Zealand, native was conservatory trained as a youngster, but while working at a psychiatric hospital in the late '70s, he co-founded the radical post-punk band SPK. Named after (and lyrically inspired by) a group of radical German Marxists of the late 1960s and early '70s, SPK were one of the pioneering industrial bands of their era. They were particularly notorious for their stomach-churning live shows, during which Revell would impassively stand behind a bank of synthesizers and tape machines spewing forth dissonant, distorted noise while surgical training films played on a loop behind the band. By the mid-'80s, however, Revell had lost interest in assault for its own sake and the band's music started leaning in a more conventionally musical direction. This attracted the attention of Australian filmmaker Philip Noyce, who invited Revell to compose the score for his atmospheric horror film "Dead Calm." That 1989 art house hit brought Noyce, Revell, and star Nicole Kidman to a wider American and European audience, and Revell closed shop on SPK to move into film composing full time. His scores include Wim Wenders's "Until the End of the World," the psychological thriller "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle," and cult favorites like "The Basketball Diaries" and "From Dusk Till Dawn," along with more commercial fare like "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" and "Daredevil."
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sunny and Steve: Enjoy the Sweets | Screenwriter | - | 2014 |
58% | 56% | Riddick | Original Music | $42.0M | 2013 |
19% | 22% | Shark Night | Original Music | $18.9M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 66% | Unthinkable | Original Music | - | 2010 |
100% | 79% | Days of Wrath | Original Music | - | 2008 |
68% | 73% | Pineapple Express | Original Music | $87.3M | 2008 |
38% | 58% | Street Kings | Original Music | $26.4M | 2008 |
50% | 30% | The Ruins | Original Music | $17.4M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 63% | Bordertown | Original Music | - | 2007 |
23% | 55% | Awake | Original Music | $14.4M | 2007 |
73% | 73% | Darfur Now | Original Music | $107.8K | 2007 |
21% | 45% | Man of the Year | Original Music | $37.4M | 2006 |
48% | 55% | Harsh Times | Original Music | $3.3M | 2005 |
43% | 77% | Goal! The Dream Begins | Original Music | $4.3M | 2005 |
9% | 39% | Aeon Flux | Original Music | $25.9M | 2005 |
4% | 19% | The Fog | Original Music | $29.5M | 2005 |
60% | 48% | Assault on Precinct 13 | Original Music | $19.9M | 2005 |
29% | 65% | The Chronicles of Riddick | Original Music | $57.6M | 2004 |
26% | 59% | Walking Tall | Music | $45.9M | 2004 |
71% | 33% | Open Water | Music | $30.5M | 2003 |
64% | 58% | Out of Time | Music | $40.9M | 2003 |
42% | 50% | Freddy vs. Jason | Original Music | $82.2M | 2003 |
43% | 35% | Daredevil | Music | $102.5M | 2003 |
30% | 50% | High Crimes | Original Music | $41.5M | 2002 |
19% | 27% | Collateral Damage | Music | - | 2002 |
48% | 61% | Human Nature | Original Music | $695.9K | 2001 |
20% | 47% | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Original Music | $131.1M | 2001 |
55% | 87% | Blow | Original Music | $53.1M | 2001 |
14% | 28% | Red Planet | Original Music | $17.5M | 2000 |
50% | 61% | Titan A.E. | Original Music | $22.8M | 2000 |
28% | 47% | Gossip | Original Music | $5.1M | 2000 |
60% | 77% | Pitch Black | Original Music | $39.2M | 2000 |
33% | 66% | The 13th Warrior | Original Music | $32.7M | 1999 |
16% | 58% | Idle Hands | Original Music | $4.0M | 1999 |
63% | 67% | Buddy Boy | Original Music | $10.3K | 1999 |
29% | 48% | Three to Tango | Original Music | $10.5M | 1999 |
17% | 14% | Bats | Original Music | $10.1M | 1999 |
44% | 53% | The Siege | Original Music | $40.9M | 1998 |
74% | 79% | The Negotiator | Original Music | $44.7M | 1998 |
50% | 52% | Phoenix | Original Music | $31.6K | 1998 |
17% | 36% | Spawn | Original Music | $55.0M | 1997 |
64% | 54% | Chinese Box | Original Music | $2.2M | 1997 |
57% | 65% | The Craft | Original Music | $22.7M | 1996 |
18% | 23% | Fled | Original Music | $17.2M | 1996 |
47% | 76% | The Basketball Diaries | Original Music | $2.1M | 1995 |
68% | 73% | Strange Days | Original Music | $7.3M | 1995 |
32% | 57% | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie | Original Music | $35.9M | 1995 |
45% | 62% | Tank Girl | Original Music | $3.8M | 1995 |
12% | 49% | S.F.W. | Original Music | $44.2K | 1994 |
84% | 90% | The Crow | Original Music | $47.3M | 1994 |
27% | 42% | The Crush | Original Music | $12.4M | 1993 |
10% | 23% | Ghost in the Machine | Original Music | $4.6M | 1993 |
54% | 87% | Faraway, So Close! | Original Music | - | 1993 |
8% | 23% | Body of Evidence | Original Music | $13.7M | 1992 |
66% | 61% | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | Original Music | $87.5M | 1992 |
29% | 42% | Traces of Red | Original Music | $3.2M | 1992 |
89% | 89% | Until the End of the World | Original Music | $662.2K | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 19% | Spontaneous Combustion | Original Music | - | 1990 |
40% | 52% | Child's Play 2 | Original Music | $26.9M | 1990 |
84% | 63% | Dead Calm | Original Music | $7.0M | 1989 |