This is where you'll find our royalty free music for horror films. Horror is a pretty wide ranging term that stretches from old classics like Dracula, via mainstream "slasher" films like the "Saw" and "The Hills Have Eyes" series, via famous Survival style video games such as "Resident Evil" and "Alone in the Dark". The genre is also closely related to science fiction and there have been many great Horror / Sci-Fi crossover films ("The Thing", "Alien", "The Chronicles of Riddick") and games ("Fallout", "F3ar", "Metroid Prime"). The music is will generally be dark and suspenseful, creepy and eerie.
Massive, sweeping orchestral track with a huge, thunderous percussion section. Heroic, epic, pounding and cinematic. Builds towards a climax at the end. Highly suitable for movie trailer, film trailer, game trailer, film intro sequence or opening sequence, war and battle scenes, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
Dark, ominous and pounding orchestral theme. Heavy gear, big machines or beasts of war, marching forward, unrelenting. Dramatic, pompous, determined and powerful. Highly suitable for movie trailer, film trailer, intro sequence, battle scenes or gearing up for war, battle or a great contest of strength and bravery. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
Dark, pulsating thriller underscore. Deep percussion, orchestral sweeps, synthesizer pulses; a great combination of symphonic and electronic elements with big percussion. Suspenseful thriller, crime, spy mission material. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Sneaky, gloomy, pensive, dark and suspenseful underscore. Subtle, pulsating percussion, mystery guitar notes, low key staccato strings and occasional subtle marching snare. Nervous strings. Great for spy, thriller, mystery, undercover or secret missions - hiding, sneaking. [Tempo: Slow / 91 BPM]
Dark and gloomy, powerful and pensive action thriller underscore. Nervous and understated rhythmic pulse, dark, twitchy strings. A deep sense of danger and dark forces. Great as a soundtrack for film, tv or game, mystery thriller, undercover mission, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
Ominous thriller underscore. Piano theme joined by slowly rising strings and a low level rhythmic pulse. Subtle but serious -- suitable for political drama or thriller, law, action, crime or mystery. A sense of tragedy or serious consequences. [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
Dangerous, nervous, dark thriller underscore. Twitchy synth just underneath the surface of a dark string- and piano texture. Sneaking, hiding, stakeout, mystery, secret mission and grave danger. [Tempo: Slow / 93 BPM]
Dark thriller underscore. Slowly moving pads and rhythms, reverberant percussion, seriously deep bass notes. Impending, pensive, foreboding, tension, signs of danger and mystery. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Ominous and tense, semi-orchestral action or sci-fi track. Danger or evil forces. Also suitable as music for TV Reality Drama, crime, accidents, fire or other extreme danger. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 125 BPM]
Hard electronic synths and beats meet up with dramatic orchestral sweeps. Danger, drama, conflict, or extreme situations. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Ominous, foreboding, middle-eastern textures. Occasional chanting voice, eastern string instruments, dark drones and slow rhythms. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Twisting and churning, dark ambient soundscapes. Reverberant metal hits and clanks, disturbing textures. Good for horror, sci-fi, suspense underscore. [Tempo: Slow / 109 BPM]
Great thriller, action, spy, undercover mission type underscore. A slowly pumping groove, nervous and dark textures, threatening brass section and staccato strings. Semi-orchestral in arrangement and with a lot of pulsating nerve. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Semi-orchestral, semi-industrial and powerful thriller soundtrack. Dark string and brass textures, a pulsating beat that oozes just under the surface. Serious, international conflict, war or battleground, covert mission, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 50 BPM]
Dark, eerie, mystical soundscapes, with a tribal, ethnic, jungle feel. Mystery / Suspense / Tension. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A short horror / scifi track, somewhere between sound design / sound atmosphere and music. Scraping metals, swirling vortex, strung out pads... Suitable for company splash screen, intro, logo, and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Dark soundtrack style track, depicting the mindset of a disturbed and tortured being. This track lasts only a minute, during which it goes through a slow opening and a manic middle section, before returning to the sad, painful opening theme once more in closing. [Tempo: Medium / 66 BPM]
A very strange, odd, weirdly mechanical sounding piano and percussion tune, like mechanical toys or strange machines. Suitable for strange sci-fi material, film noir or dark future visions. It has a certain retro quirky horror feel, like "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events", "Dark City" or Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride". The alternative version that we have titled 'Lost 40's recording' (see below) has deliberately been made to sound like a very old lo-fi recording. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Orhcestral and percussive track with a dramatic, epic and reverent mood. Choral chants, giant drums, big horn and strings section. This track also has a slight sadness to it, as if going off to battle or on a long journey. Suitable as film trailer, film soundtrack, game music and more. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Dramatic film score type track, depicting chase, struggle, urgent mission or battle scenes. Suitable as in-film, in-game, or other media, as well as for movie trailer. [Tempo: Fast / 137 BPM]
Dramatic, larger-than-life and dark orchestral action piece. Violence, chase, seemingly invincible enemies, huge forces, extreme danger. This track is suitable in action, thriller, sci-fi film, game or other media, or for movie trailers etc. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Grand, epic soundtrack with sweeping, awe-inspiring orchestral passages. Perhaps from an awesome discovery in a fantasy world, an evil lair, an gruesome monster or dramatic event. Suitable as fantasy movie soundtrack, game soundtrack, movie trailer and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
The title says it all, really, this is a film soundtrack / film mood underscore with a very suspenseful nerve, in fully orchestral / symphonic arrangement. Good for thriller, horror, suspense, fantasy, Halloween, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A weird and different piece. Very eerie, spooky, strange and hard to classify. Led by a single soprano voice, the track soon rises up to a monolithic, scary, larger-than-life mystery. Magic, witchcraft, halloween, fantasy, evil lair, strange lands, mystical places... [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 55 BPM]
Dramatic film score type track with a sense of impending conflict, danger, struggle, political or military conflict. Big Hollywood sound, and great for action, thriller, mystery, spy, military drama, political drama, international conflict and much more. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Angelic, foreboding, ominous, awe-inspiring in a subtle way, this is a cinematic orchestral soundtrack piece that creeps under your skin. A sense of being in the presence of greatness or something otherworldly. Superb film soundtrack material, be it for sci-fi, drama, fantasy or history. [Tempo: Slow / 63 BPM]
A dark, cinematic and dramatic piece. Inspired by film noir and classic horror stories, as well as newer dark and quirky films by Tim Burton or soundtrack work by Danny Elfman. A tasty slice of evil... Strings, oboe, piano, toy musical box... [Tempo: Slow / 64 BPM]
A very slow and dark, pounding rhythm. Resonant distorted guitar, monotonous bass line and slow pounding acoustic drums. Images of dirty machinery, dark future. [Tempo: Very slow / 53 BPM]
A dark, tense and dramatic, textured film score piece. Very slight eastern European feel, but certainly not limited to that region. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A tense, melodic soundtrack piece with a monolithic, dramatic melody and a feeling of dark urban future. Great for sci-fi, drama, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Hard thumping beat, unintelligible broken voices and badly distorted guitars. A hard, fast, ruthless, electro-industrial track. Damage and destruction. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 162 BPM]
A pensive, broody and mystical musical backdrop, perhaps of an ancient time or a mysterious, forgotten place. Very highly suitable as an atmospheric background for a dark fantasy world. [Tempo: Slow / 104 BPM]
Dark and sombre background music based on strings and piano. Very cinematic piece suitable for any dark, ominous drama or fiction. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark and spacious ambient textures, slowly evolving, sacred knowledge, hidden secrets. [Tempo: Very slow / 108 BPM]
Dark and ominous percussion, anxious, ritualistic, tribal, fear, malevolence. For more in this style, please see the genre Ambient: Dark/Sinister [Tempo: Slow / 104 BPM]
Dirty and twisted electronica, swooshing pads, machine like drum programming, futuristic and cyberpunk, sci-fi, science and technology, insights and discovery.. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 108 BPM]
Dark and atmospheric ambient chill, filtered and distorted beats with harsh synth slices and spacious pads, low sub bass, weird time signature, futuristic, sci-fi, science and technology, would also work for contemporary erotic scenes [Tempo: Very slow / 35 BPM]
Dramatic and mysterious piano, accompanied by harp and strings. Inspired by soap opera music cliches. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Dramatic and urgent orchestral march. Dangerous situation, battle etc. [Tempo: Fast / 131 BPM]
Foreboding organ chords with slow, pumping and grinding beat entering at about 0:45. Illbient, pensive, slightly sickening and somewhat hypnotic sound. Downtempo, ominous, pensive. Urban, inner city drama or industrial, mechanical danger or any dark, moving imagery. [Tempo: Medium / 66 BPM]
Tense, horrific survival music, blending hard percussion with orchestral elements. Changes between pensive, nervous parts and more action filled parts for chase, action scenes. Nervous, slightly chaotic, disoriented. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
A sneaky and sinister underscore track with a heartbeat like rhythm. Twitchy strings, mysterious chord progressions, pensive mood. This track is quite long and it develops over time into a more intense track with more of a clear and present danger, chase or frantic fear. After 3 minutes an electronic drum beat sets in to raise the intensity level by another notch. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
Classic horror film sound. A bit retro, typical 'haunted house' or monsters horror flick. Chamber orchestra, scattered piano, nervous strings. Deadly monsters lurk, perhaps a werewolf or other horrible creature. Mischievous. Great as Halloween music, parody, animation etc. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Haunting film underscore. Howling wind instrument and a low pitched roar, produced with a tribal instrument called "tambor onca". [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Haunting and disturbing mood. Ideal for Halloween videos and scary stuff. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Dramatic and suspenseful. Huge drums in a slow rhythmic pattern provides a deep atmosphere over witch an eerie choir comes in. Occasional distorted screeches and screams complete the total macabre mood. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
Doubtful, serious mystery thriller underscore. Spies or undercover agents, international conspiracy, nervous tension. Suitable for crime drama, mystery, spy thriller, FBI, CIA, crime investigation, action adventure and more. A drum beat joins in at about 02:25, giving the track a more urgent feel. A saxophone joins in from 03:45, giving the track even more urgency and a hectic feel. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
Nervous action adventure underscore. Ticking rhythm, uncertain pulses, mysterious notes. A sense of urgency and impending danger. Suitable for crime drama, thriller, spy mystery, criminal investigation, reality TV, sci-fi drama and more. [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
A mysterious, ethnic mood conveying an uneasy or wondering state of mind. Going through a few distinct parts this weird fairytale begins simple but ends on a higher intensity, with a heartfelt ethnic chant. Good for fantasy, mystery, mythology, exploration and archeology etc. [Tempo: Slow / 62 BPM]
Male voices chanting in a reverberant space, with strange piano and odd sounds creating a background ambience. Religious chanting, prayers, meditation, vocalizing monks in a temple, monastery or place of worship. Great for fantasy, adventure, history, cultural, religion, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 51 BPM]