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.
A disturbing, constantly moving soundscape of scraping strings and odd sounds, as if sensing the presence of a malignant power, lurking monster or perhaps alien being. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Somewhere between music and soundscape, this track features strange, uneasy sounds and echoey rattles. Foreboding, tense. Great horror or sci-fi material. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Tinkling, synthetics and filtered, pulsating drum beats. An eerie atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Sparse pads, almost gluey in texture and with an evil tone. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Piano, tense atmosphere. Eerie tension, dark. [Tempo: Very slow / 91 BPM]
An eerie and creepy figure of a ghost subtly sneaks by with a cold and evil presence in this electronic / ambient suspense cue. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano and hear beat pulse, in the vein of James Newton Howard's horror scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery/horror cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a ruthless intruder. Orchestral with eerie piano and creepy ambient fx, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with creepy piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A suspenseful thriller cue with varying textures underscoring anything from hostage negotiations to a prison break. Orchestral with low piano, percussion, and and ambient fx. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
A creepy and eerie mystery/horror cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to an evil presence. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic, with a riveting climax. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a sudden kidnapping. Orchestral with piano, with electric bass and percussion, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A pulsing and building mystery cue underscoring anything from an undercover mission to entering a new and suspicious world. Ambient FX, electric bass, strings, brass, rhythmic and mallet percussion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 87 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
An pulsing suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a rescue search to a shocking discovery. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 86 BPM]
A hip psychological dramatic cue underscoring contemporary night life with sexy and dangerous undertones. Electronic and ambient instruments, urban grooves, and piano and strings. [Tempo: Medium / 79 BPM]
17 parts of film or TV soundtrack, underscore music. These go well together, or separately. It provides the backdrop for suspense, pensive action, sometimes dark fused with a variety of sound effects of bell tolls, haunting pads, jailhouse door slams to complete the scene. Each piece was written with a whole film in mind enabling the user with the tools to blend tracks to their own making or for each to stand alone in its own right. Mystery, intrigue, conflict, investigation, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
Electronic music, spatial, deep and heroic mood. Modern electronic sounds, dark and deep pads which morph to electronic grooves and base and synth lines. Electronica, Filmscore/Cinematic. Mysterious/Futuristic, Technologic/Scientific, Spatial, Liquid, Hypnotic. Ambient textures, Synth Pad, Synth Bass, Synthesizers. Tech/Sci-Fi. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A sneaky and creepy semi-orchestral soundtrack piece. Twitchy and nervous strings, scattered piano notes, metal clanks, subtle pulsating rhythms. Suitable for horror/scifi as well as for documentary, forensics, murder investigation etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
A quirky and odd production music track with naive bells and a slight 'medieval' touch of harpsichord. Like an old house with secrets, perhaps something that would go in a dark comedy, a Halloween related production or a haunted house music. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Minimalistic electronic beats, stomping Ibiza dance club or house party style. Staccato, syntesizer stabs and arpeggiators with 808/909 style drums, cut down and hard core. [Tempo: Fast / 128 BPM]
Filmscore/Cinematic. Mysterious/Futuristic, Exciting, Dramatic, Suspense. Strings, Piano, Brasses/Horns, Symphony Orchestra. Drama, Documentary, Mystery. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A crazy TV-type Looney Tunes theme tune hook with whacky nonsensical interludes and FX. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A strong, hard hitting and very dramatic action or trailer track. Created with a combination of samplers, live orchestral performers and a live choir. Suitable for use with explosive scenes of action, destruction, war, conflict, battle, sci-fi or fantasy, or even competitive sport. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
A huge, pounding tribal drum rhythm is at the core of this powerful, hair raising and hell raising, all-out and full-on majestic action trailer track. Live orchestral instruments and live choir combined. It's massive, epic, glorifying, scary and overpowering -- suitable for any extremely dramatic action or battle footage, fantasy or sci-fi, combat sports and much more. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
A dark and twisted action fantasy or sci-fi film soundtrack. Gloomy and majestic at the same time, the piece depicts a deep conflict, pain and determination. Suitable for explosive film trailer, war or battle footage, combat and conflict. [Tempo: Medium / 69 BPM]
Gaming or adventure music with a relentless marching thrust that includes smouldering interludes shot through with flurries of eastern flutes. There is also a Contemporary Mix which adds Urban style drums for a hip-hop soundtrack feel. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Eerie, dreamy bell and electro soundscapes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Distant beat on a big drum. Threatening, dark, dramatic, eerie. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
Xylophone in a spooky place. Dark, dramatic, eerie, horror. [Tempo: Very slow / 120 BPM]
An ominous, majestic and powerful track with live choir and live orchestral instruments cleverly combined with samples and huge, booming percussion. The track starts with threatening ethnic percussion and grows into a gothic, monolithic, spine chilling track. Highly suitable for horror, ritual, fantasy and primal war [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
A very loud, brash and intense action track, highly suitable for movie trailer, game trailer, war or battle scenes. High level of intensity throughout with live choir and live orchestral instruments used in combination with samples and huge, pounding percussion. Urgent, tense and very dark. Builds to a crescendo towards the end. The only difference between the regular version and the 'Alterative version' is that the alternative version does not contain the solo female voice phrase at 25 secs. [Tempo: Fast / 131 BPM]
An intense and dramatic movie trailer style track, complete with full orchestra, choir and a huge percussion sections. Very dramatic, powerful, urgent, and tense. Big brass stabs combine with ethnic drums and vocal chants. The chord progression helps to increase the intensity level throughout, towards the final crescendo and climax. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 156 BPM]
A darkly ambient, threatening and unnerving underscore. Suitable for tense and pensive drama scenes, reality show, documentary, dangerious situations, nervous undertow. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 103 BPM]
A pensive and mysterious underscore, suitable for crime investigation, dark drama or documentary. Nervous and with a sense of movement, ticking time, hidden clues waiting to be discovered. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
A very dark film soundtrack underscore cue featuring bowed metals, drones and a subdued percussion section with a tribal feel. A few well placed spanish guitar tones adds a sense of drama and emotion. Great for thriller, crime mystery, documentary, urgent situation. [Tempo: Slow / 108 BPM]
Underlying tension. A dark and creepy underscore track for horror or dark drama, criminal documentary or crime scene investigation. What gruesome discovery lies behind the next turn? A nervous, pensive background track. Clanky percussion, deep drones and a serious, tense undertow. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 115 BPM]
A strange and unsettling semi-orchestral film underscore. Nervous and uncertain, swirling and clangy. Suitable for a very tense and pensive moment in a dark drama, horror, crime thriller or documentary. Carries a sense of hidden evil or a disturbing truth. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Weird underscore soundscape for thriller, dark drama, crime scene investigation or documentary. Hints of screeching metals, deep thuds and strange twisted melodies from a dark place. A disturbing sound montage like a hidden evil or searching for clues to a gruesome discovery. Great for film, TV or in-game use. [Tempo: Medium / 83 BPM]
Sneaky and darkly pensive underscore for drama or dark mystery. Perhaps crime scene investigation, criminal activity, lurking danger. Suitable for documentary, film score, TV drama or nervous tense moments of reality show etc. Sneaking pads, dark bass undertow, unnerving and twitchy strings. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A medium intensity underscore track for film or TV drama. A sense of mystery and passing time. Perhaps crime investigation, mysterious discoveries or waiting anxiously for the next development. Pensive, with a understated, slow rhythm. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A transparent film or movie underscore, ambient but with a hint of emotion or personal intrigue. Good for a dark drama, mysterious or understated scene of discovery or reflection. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
A short film or television drama cue, suitable for crime thriller, mystery or an intense. Ticking rhythm, pensive movement, building to a crescendo. Perhaps a terrible realization or a gruesome discovery. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
A pensive, rhythmic underscore for a dark thriller, drama, crime mystery or documentary. The percussion carries a slightly ethnic or tribal feel, while the wailing, screeching metallic pads give the track a sense of fear, anxious waiting or nervous movement. Great for film, television drama, crime scene investigation, reality show and much more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 86 BPM]
An ambient film soundtrack cue with a very mysterious edge. Pensive, slowly moving soundscape, like hiding, sneaking, or breaking and entering. A subtle rhythmic element enters about half way through along with a deep drone, giving the track a darker, more ominous edge. Great for crime thriller, investigative documentary, a tense moment during reality show or forensic investigation, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 109 BPM]
A dark, cold and damp TV or film underscore cue. Pensive, unnerving and unsettling, this piece is suitable for a scene in a crime mystery, horror flick or perhaps a criminal documentary featuring evil or the occult, gruesome discoveries in forensics, crime scene investigation, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An unsettling and nervous film or television underscore cue. A repetitive rhythm gives the piece a pensive feel and the uneasy drones and pads brings a sense of terrible realization or an unfolding mystery. Great for crime investigation, horror, dark drama, documentary and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]