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.
Something foul is lurking. Slow dark jazz with some scary FX and pads. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 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]
This is a dark and claustrophobic adventure that’s soon to come to a bloody ending. Transparent piano harmonies accompany a mellow, yet terrifying string melody, building up to an unfortunate ending. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 60 BPM]
This ambient music track features scattered sounds, signals and rhythms textures. Highly distinctive, unique and somewhat futuristic, perfect for horror, sci-fi or thriller. [Tempo: Slow / 96 BPM]
Dark ambient track for underscore use in horror, sci-fi or thriller material. Few notes, occasional reverberant metallic percussion, single deep bass note, heavily processed guitar sound in the distance. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Creepy and haunting horror soundtrack, containing key elements relating to childhood and lost joy. Atmospheric tension, with a major buildup around 45sec. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ever felt that you were being watched by someone? Your every move being monitored from afar. A sinister, fevered, twisted and unnerving piece. Contains violins, cellos, xylophones, string plucks and some quite twisted melodies that slowly unfold, creating lots of tension. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
Dramatic rising cinematic track driven by powerful percussion. The track begins calmly and builds to a powerful conclusion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Run For Your Life. is a thrilling cinematic trailer that is epic suspenseful and intense full of tension and terror. It starts with a sad and haunting mid eastern vocal reminiscent of Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score and erupts into a gripping and chilling cinematic trailer that ends with massive, bold loud dramatic impacts and explosions. Excellent for trailers, action sequences, halloween and horror, extreme sports footage or clips requiring a track that leaves your audience on the edge of their seats. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 0 BPM]
Full orchestra with piano and acoustic guitar build the tension gradually throughout. Subtle at first, about halfway through the tension goes up with low brass stabs. Perhaps someone suspects they are being followed, and their anxiety and dread grows. At the end, when they look back to see if the menace is still there, they see nothing. Was it all a dream, all in their head? [Tempo: Slow / 69 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral music track with a massive, epic sound. Distorted, unstable synthesizers combine with full orchestra, huge percussion and eventually, choirs. This music track has a sound of epic action scenes, sci-fi, fantasy or horror. The track has several build-ups and drop-offs, edit points that can be used to make track fit the timing of your production. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 83 BPM]
An uneasy, bleak and cold underscore track for dark drama, mystery, horror or thriller. Tormented strings, with a sense of loneliness and sorrow, combined with a creepy, eerie mystery feel. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ominous and tense. Orchestra, drums and haunting textures build suspense throughout. [Tempo: Medium / 156 BPM]
Horror Mystery Soundtrack. Dark / Violent / Chaotic / Insanity / Twisted. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Sparse, scattered piano soundtrack. Uneasy, unsettled. Suspicious, foreboding, dark. Available with two different piano tones; one with chorus effect (prepared piano sound) and one with a straight piano sound. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A creepy, spooky and atmospheric track arranged for strings section. Classic horror or mystery feel. Think classic murder mysteries, Sherlock Holmes, Yorkshire Ripper, Tim Burton films etc. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
A dark suspense piece with a haunting quality. Tension builds amidst huge drums and orchestra with an abnormal sense of determination. [Tempo: Medium / 143 BPM]
An epic, spine chilling track of amazement and awe. Like the uprising of an amazing and fearsome creature, or the grand finale to an epic battle. Hair raising climax. Overpowering. Also available in a 'Rock version' which adds rock guitars and drums to the mix for even more punch and power. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 89 BPM]
A dark and ominous tribal music track with urgent, intense, earthy African drums and various foreboding instruments and vocal grunts. Danger / Darkness / Primal / Savage. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Majestically dark and ominous, Ambient Guitar music. Like the soundtrack to a drone flying over an alien landscape. Epic, dreamy, grandiose and slightly unnerving. Tense / Foreboding. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A creepy, dark track evoking the image of serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery cues. The chaotic and evil sounding prepared piano and metallic percussion create evil thoughts and imagery of Halloween, Freddie Krueger, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
This track has a haunted overtone and pays a subtle homage to the music 'Dexter' in the theme. This cue would work well for film or television, opening credits, paranormal footage and spooky movie trailers. It features detuned piano and haunting choirs that makes a nice ghostly tension builder. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A fully loaded pulsating, action packed trance track. Builds from a deep dark atmosphere into a fast and energetic trance tune. Will work well in night-time scenes, cityscapes, action scenes, futuristic environments and dance scenes. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Driving Score track with e-guitars, effects and heavy drum/percussion sounds. Edgy, menacing and aggressive. Good for action, pursuits and thrilling fight scenes. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Chunky & leaden-heavy groove-rocker with a slight bluesy feel to the guitar style. Very weighty, loud and yet hypnotic. Would suit action/thriller/extreme sports type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Horror Mystery Soundtrack. Eerie / Cold / Malevolent / Uneasy. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Creepy orchestration suggests an approaching evil menace or a supernatural event. Steeped in suspense, this dark, sinister piece builds towards a horrific & sudden conclusion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark and ominous track featuring choir and piano. Mysterious, chanting, perhaps occult séance or dark magic. [Tempo: Slow / 52 BPM]
Ultra spacious and atmospheric sound design, time dilation with bubblings of ambient texture. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A frantic, drums and percussion driven music track for a chase, battle or fight scene. Highly suitable for trailer, game, thriller or action film. (Note, this track starts with a very long, very slow crescendo, so you won't hear much for the first minute or so.) [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 158 BPM]
A somewhat ominous and pompous sounding semi-orchestral track with chanting choir. Quick string runs, dramatic orchestration. Use with drama, fantasy, grand adventure, amazing discoveries, urgent / exciting cultural or historical, religion / cult, dark castle, mystery and mythology, etc. Unsettling, uneasy. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 80 BPM]
Dystopian, sinister steampunk dubstep track with dark synthesizers and brutal beats. [Tempo: Slow / 140 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]
Dark, eerie, ethereal, spacious, creepy, moody, thoughtful, slightly menacing electronic track with a slow groove & a sense of foreboding. Hypnotic, cool, smooth & haunting. Would suit mystery / crime / documentary / Halloween / horror type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 79 BPM]
Ominous and powerful theme music featuring distant trumpet, orchestral trumpet and strings creating an enticing atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
Dynamic and energetic, modern epic track. Dark and powerful percussion, joined by orchestra, electric guitar and synthesizers. Uprising, urgent and intense. Heroic, determined, Ominous. Suitable for trailers, action scenes, sci-fi movies, fights, rising armies, marching to battle and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 141 BPM]
Inspired by film maker and composer John Carpenter, this is a homage to his masterpiece The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. Ominous blend of synthesizers and orchestral horns, with a repetitive tense motif. [Tempo: Slow / 93 BPM]
Slow brush drums hitting softly with distorted long sounds and some scary sounds. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
A suspenseful orchestral track that slowly builds in intensity with driving percussion and strings. Suitable for thrillers, action scenes, and reality TV shows. [Tempo: Slow / 62 BPM]
This track has an eerie mood, yet still suggesting hints of something whmsical, and perhaps mischievous. It would be well suited for footage and video games about horror, fantasy and paranormal subject matter. [Tempo: Slow / 134 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]
Very dark, scraping and menacing flesh pads and aural movements, slightly sickening soundscape. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Cinematic dramatic action track with deep and dark vibe and growing tension. Good for jungle and forest scenes, ambush in the battle, war and special military operations, spy films and videos. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
These dark horror cues can be classed either as "music cues" or "sound effects", as in reality they function as both. They are all recorded with a large, live symphony orchestra with the same quality as any soundtrack from big budget movies. The effects are easy to loop and edit, and can be tailored to fit any cue, as they can be used from virtually any point. Consider them a construction kit to score horror, mystery and dark drama. Recorded, mastered, and delivered to you in pristine 24-bit audio. Also look for YS Horror Cues 21-40 and YS Horror Cues 41-60. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 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]
Dry strings with massive hits and trailer SFX. A combination of live chamber string orchestra and action trailer style. Raw and intense. [Tempo: Fast / 90 BPM]
This track is a high Intensity action / chase cue with a primal, menacing tone. It's full of suspense and works well for footage of battles, war scenes, chases, and beasts. It's also well suited for video games and builds into a riser at the end that has a cinematic impact great for film trailers. Apocalypto meets Jurassic Park. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
A dark solo piano piece that has an underlying feeling of menace, danger and horror. Piano sounds like a beating heart at the end as the suspense grows but resolves. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 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]
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]
