The medieval England of "Werwulf" is hell. Ethel Cain and Robin Carolan make it sound immaculate.

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Set us as preferred When composing the score of a horror movie, are you empathetic toward its victims, or acting as their tormentor?Ethel Cain and Robin Carolan pondered that as they composed the mournful and guttural score for Robert Eggers’ forthcoming film “Werwulf.” The movie, set in 14th century England, is Eggers’ latest dive into meticulously researched, period-piece horror.After 2024’s smash “Nosferatu,” “Werwulf” (in theaters Dec.

25) looks to be Eggers’ most historically exacting film since his colonial-America nightmare “The Witch,” and his most brutal and upsetting movie yet.For this particular sound of pastoral despair, the singer and composer tried to understand how the freezing, terrified peasants of medieval England (here played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, and Lily-Rose Depp) would have felt being stalked by an entity beyond their comprehension.“I started to wonder — is the music coming from a sympathetic place toward the characters, or is it coming from the antagonism of the evil that’s pursuing them?’ Cain asked in an interview about their single “Wynter Waxeth,” which also serves as a theme in the film.“Or is it more of this neutrality of nature watching it all unfold?” Music Claudio Simonetti and Goblin will perform the soundtrack score to Dario Argento’s 1982 horror film ‘Tenebre’ on Wednesday at the Alex Theatre in GlendaleFor the score, Cain — the cult-favorite Southern gothic project from singer-songwriter Hayden Anhedönia — joined up with Carolan, the founder of the tastemaking indie label Tri Angle and a composer who worked on the music Eggers’ “Nosferatu” and “The Northman.” Cain’s voice is a spectral presence throughout the movie, in terribly beautiful harmonies that serve as a portent of its characters’ desperate faith an...