Matt Jantzen
Birth : 1981-03-21, Geneva, Switzerland
History
Matt Jantzen was born in 1981 in Geneva, Switzerland. He started composing film music in 2006 and now has a total of around 60 full features films, short movies, documentaries and advertising since his first score for "La Vraie Vie d'Arthur" (which he co-composed with fellow composer and famous Swiss pianist Eric Bakhch-Pour). He scored his first full feature film "Born of Earth" in 2008 and then continued to score short movies the following years. Many of his short movies scores, including "The Last Rung on the Ladder", "Abyss", "She", "The Wound", "Picturesque", "The Remains of Clayton Lake" and "Death Crocodile", were well received from the public, movie critics and in film festivals. Among his next compositions one can find the score for a documentary on the "Saw" franchise, the acclaimed short films "Sundays" and "Fuoco" and segments from the comedy anthology "Movie 43" starring Hugh Jackman, Dennis Quaid, Chris Pratt, Chloë Grace Moretz and Richard Gere that directly lead him to return scoring full feature horror film as "After Midnight", "The Blackout", the TV movie "Demon Legacy" and the acclaimed crime drama "Savior of None" in 2014. Then Matt scored several feature films as "No Solicitors", "The Encounter", "Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper", "Residue", "Havana Darkness", "Hitchhiker Massacre", "Ravers", "This Old Machine", "Freshwater", "Exit 18" and some additional music works for "13 Eerie", "Sorority Party Massacre" and more recently the theatrical release "Distorted" starring Christina Ricci and John Cusack. He also provided some atmospheric drone music to the Netflix TV Show "Black Summer". Among his latest work one can find the scores to the horror film "It Hungers", the monster movies "Abominable" and "Amityville Island", the critically acclaimed horror / thriller "Red Handed", segments from the horror anthology "Horror Nights" and the action / horror movie "Shadow in the Cloud" starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
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The ultimate battle against the Amityville curse begins after the infamous murder house is exorcised from Earth and reappears in outer space in Amityville in Space.
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Shadyville is plagued by sightings of a hairy creature known as the "House Squatch". Locals are panicked and the area's powerful real estate firm is pressuring the local sheriff to stop the creature, who has taken up residence in one of their homes for sale. It's a battle of wits and wackiness as the town mobilizes to drive the creature back to the forest.
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A ferocious, prehistoric Megalodon has returned to the surface, terrorizing a group of oil rig workers and members of a local fishing village.
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A deep space crew takes a job on a mysterious remote planet. A crash landing strands them on the hostile surface. Soon they find out what creatures live there, and the hidden fate of the crew before them.
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During the last desperate months of World War II, an Allied mission to regain Ramree Island off the coast of Burma ends in horror when an embattled group of soldiers find themselves trapped in dense swampland infested with deadly saltwater crocodiles. As the men are picked off one by one by the hungry reptiles, those that remain resort to increasingly desperate measures to survive the onslaught of carnage and get off the island alive.
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In 2020, five members of the paranormal web series 'There's Something In The Shadows' went off into the wilds of Scotland to try and prove the existence of a paranormal portal. The group's cameras and footage were found months later.
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A young woman inherits a small island in New York and discovers it has a dangerous history.
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When their father is murdered, three brothers descend upon an Oregon mountain river to spread his ashes. After they arrive, one of their children goes missing. One of the brothers was himself abducted 30 years ago when they visited this same river, but he has blocked the incident out of his mind. Only by unlocking the mysteries inside his subconscious, will they be able find the child.
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A sexy young coed enjoys a lavish lifestyle thanks to a sugar daddy dating app, accessing their money by having them killed. She soon meets her match, however, in her new rich, handsome boyfriend - who happens to also be a serial killer.
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A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan is the town's only hope of survival.
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A diverse group of ex-cons-turned-movers are convinced by their creepy client, Vern Muller, to pull an all-nighter for a generous pay bump. As the night progresses and rooms are cleared, they slowly uncover the horrors that exist inside his old Victorian mansion, which include boobytraps, human experimentation, Nazi monsters and more. Will they survive the night?
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Lost Boys tells the true, undisguised story of what happened ten years ago, after group of friends continued their eternal afterparty following the success of their movie premiere, Reindeerspotting: Escape From Santaland, which depicted group of drug users from Rovaniemi, Finland. The partying ends when friends of Joonas goes missing and Jani dies violently in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Joonas takes his camera and sets out to find out what happened to his friend. Was it all about drugs, women and money or do the traces lead somewhere deeper?
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When a contaminated energy drink turns an illegal rave into a nightmare, a germaphobic journalist has to overcome her deepest fears to get her friends out alive.
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A magazine photo shoot is scheduled to take place on a remote, shark infested island.
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After a white shark, also known as an ogre shark, is injected with a GMO medicine, it turns into a dangerous bloodthirsty mutant that can outwit even the king of nature. A group of hapless lovers of playing with the laws of nature will have to stop the shark or die from its teeth. But no matter how terrible the vengeance of nature is, there is a much more terrible force, from whose punishment can not escape even a mutant who survived in battle with...
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A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do anything to protect its terrain.
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From the writers and producers of the horror anthology, Paranoia Tapes, Slimoids, Rust, That Night, Atelophobia and The Immortal Wars, comes a brand new cinematic horror anthology that will be sure to send chills down your spine. Join Malvolia, The Queen Of Screams, as she introduces you to the highest quality of horror from 7 filmmakers around the world. Get ready, sit back, and DO NOT WATCH ALONE.
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A cursed survivor of killings at the Amityville House brings evil to a small island where bizarre genetic experiments are carried out on humans and animals.
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An antique book dealer finds himself haunted by the ghost of a young boy, he decides to investigate the strange occurrences within his life.
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A man wakes up after an attempt on his life, with no memory of who he is. He suddenly finds himself on the run with his would-be assassin. His wife, a hard-edged, cool-headed police officer, begins a desperate search to find him. A move that could end her career.
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Traveling to Havana, Cuba, to investigate the origins of a mysterious manuscript supposedly written by acclaimed American novelist, Ernest Hemingway, three friends are thrust into a terrifying game of cat and mouse when they find themselves trapped inside an abandoned building nestled in the center of the country's vibrant capital. With time running out fast the threesome must maneuver through a maze of deadly traps to find a way out of the building before they're hunted down.
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When the embodiment of evil rises to destroy Earth and all that we know, can the human race defend itself or will it succumb to the forces of evil?
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Two Las Vegas entertainers find themselves in a mysterious town whose occupants may be cannibals. Re-cut version of the film Eldorado (2012).
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A supernatural stalker pursues a super model to steal her soul with his demonic camera.
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What many are saying is the most disturbing film of 2018, Watch if you Dare revolves around a series of horrifying incidents. If you press play, look away ;)
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The first World War rages on when a group of American soldiers find a mysterious artifact that can summon the ancient evil of the Krampus. After the men are killed in action, the artifact is sent to the commanding officer's widow who is a teacher at a small-town orphanage. The orphans accidentally summon the Krampus and the teacher, and her pupils are forced to battle this ancient evil.
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When major cities around the world burn in the aftermath of massive, coordinated terrorist attacks, a trauma doctor and her friends escape Atlanta to the perceived safety of the countryside, only to discover the danger has followed them.
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Scientists investigate mysterious disappearances at a research base where it has been reported a savage creature was spotted.
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A married couple suspect that the 'smart apartments' in their high tech residence are being used by its owner for sinister reasons.
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When the Fist found a mystical gold fleece jacket, he became the biggest porn star of the 1970s. But in the ‘80s, he’s on the cusp of eviction from a run-down studio apartment, having lost his gold fleece and his mojo along with it. When a local street thug named Superfly enters the diner where Fist works, robbing his customers, Fist and friends fight back. And thus begins a wild adventure, as Superfly’s bosses come to collect from Fist, sending him on a journey that unravels a conspiracy to sell meat pumped full of estrogen, which threatens to emasculate men.
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It's Halloween at WKIZ when the malicious Mistress of Midnight arrives to host her annual horror movie marathon 'Dead by Midnight'. When the WKIZ staff begins disappearing only to turn up in the increasingly darker films, it's up to line producer Candice Spelling to stop the Mistress of Midnight before her final and most diabolical film goes to air.
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Vint is in a troubled marriage. After taking a road trip with his wife they are abducted leaving him for dead and his wife missing. Months later he awakens from a coma, returns home and starts to get his life back in order. Mia his young sister-in-law moves in to take care of him as he recovers. After evidence comes forth and authorities have long given up. The two team up and return to the small town where his wife was last seen. They are led down a violent rabbit-hole where they might not find out the truth behind her disappearance.
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Three friends find themselves fighting for their lives when their urban exploration goes horribly wrong
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A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.
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From the creators of After the Dawn, L.A. Maniac, Play Hooky, and Dirty B.O. , comes a found footage movie that will surely put you on the edge of your seats. With the inspiration of true stories, Jack Hunter’s PARANOIA TAPES will send a chill down the bottom of your spine.
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An anthology of horror shorts about death.
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Beautiful, young hitchhiker Sally (Ely LaMay), attempts to survive the night while making her way back home as a sadistic killer and cannibalistic madman (John Blyth Barrymore) haunts the desert highways, probing for fresh roadkill.
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When Kirby Lane's SUV breaks down in the middle of the desert, she must overcome the dehydration, coyotes, and lurking undead to find her way home.
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1976: Two young journalists leave for the French-Swiss border to investigate a strange case of cattle mutilations and record testimonies for a TV channel. Yet, once they get there, the scientific team they were supposed to meet has gone missing. Escorted by a first-aider, a British biologist and an American forensic investigator, Melissa and David will go looking for the missing team deep into the mountains.
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Set in 1992, during a hallucinogenic drug nightmare infused with illicit partying and forbidden sex, young ravers discover the murderous world of the DeadThirsty.
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Stacy Phelps doesn't want to be anywhere near her abusive ex-husband the weekend that he's getting out of prison. With her best friends by her side, they decide to go away to her parent's beach house. Soon, they will be in a fight to survive the night.
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A group of college students go into the deep woods of the most haunted town in America to better understand fear... and they found it.
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A new take on the classic story of a group of twenty-something kids' weekend of terror at the lake house.
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Olivia, A New York-based journalist travels to Turkey when she receives news that her sister Marla is pregnant. Marla recently ended a relationship but decides to keep the baby and that's when sinister things begin to occur.
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Laurie, a good-natured college student, embarks on a spring break vacation with her friends Faith, Joey, and her boyfriend Mick. They get off on the ghostly Exit 14 where they befriend a mysterious store clerk and are haunted by the ghost story he shares with them.
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Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse Keeper's cryptic warning to, 'Always keep a light burning!'
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When Collin Bastrow is found in the forest, alone and afraid, he has a shocking story to tell. As he struggles to recount the events of the previous night his memories return in a series of horrific flashes of what became of his friends and fiancée. What started as a simple camping trip in the mountains of Northern Arizona quickly descended into an amazing and terrifying story that is truly out of this world. As the sole survivor of this deadly close encounter Collin must try and explain the unexplainable
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Lewis Cutterman is a well respected brain surgeon and happily married with two beautiful children who run the family business. They are model citizens within the community. A simple visit to their home by a solicitor is greeted by an invitation to dinner; except dinner takes a macabre turn when the solicitor finds himself drugged by the family. Waking up, the solicitor soon discovers they will be slowly eaten piece by piece and that the kid's family business is to farm out their internal organs to needy patients.
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Set in Mexico City sometime in the future and starring US actor Brian Petsos and Mexican actress Sofia Sisniega, SUNDAYS is an ambitious philosophical science-fiction proof-of-concept short. The end of the world seems like a nightmare to Ben. A memory of a past life that doesn’t belong to him. When Ben starts to remember Isabelle, the only love he’s ever known, he realises she’s missing in his life. An existential descent into confusion and the desperate need to find out the truth begins. This reality depicts a stunning, surprising and dark world. A world that is clearly not his.
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From assembled security camera footage we witness the tragedy of Flight 780 where passengers and crew descend into madness after experiencing strange atmospheric conditions as they suspect a hidden, horrific presence may now be on board.
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An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
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From assembled security camera footage we witness the tragedy of Flight 780 where passengers and crew descend into madness after experiencing strange atmospheric conditions as they suspect a hidden, horrific presence may now be on board.
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When an exotic dancer is murdered at a seedy strip club, her sister Constance, a TV newscaster, goes undercover to find the killer. While working at the club, she quickly realizes that everyone is a suspect and that other dancers are being targeted. She must work fast to find the killer to seek her revenge before she becomes the next target.
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In a post-apocalyptic world all the people are eating junk foods. Except Trish. Trish is different.
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In a remote mountain lodge, five sorority sisters accidentally unleash an unholy entity, and must battle evil and each other to stop it from devouring mankind.
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Forensics students arriving an isolated, island "body farm" get to try out their CSI skills on a bunch of corpses under the watchful eye of their grumpy professor. The island used to house a state penitentiary where the authorities were experimenting on death row inmates and now the bodies won't stay still.
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Fifteen directors and an all-star cast created this twisted comedy that follows three teens on the hunt for the world's most banned film.
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In danger of losing his badge, a big city detective agrees to aid a small town sheriff in a routine missing persons investigation only to discover that at least one girl has gone missing in this sleepy fishing town each year for the last twenty years. When a body finally emerges on the lake and suspects literally crawl out of the hills, the two lawmen realize they’re being toyed with and to make things worse, the killer seems to have set his eyes on a group of sorority girls who are not only isolated by the lake, but have their own nefarious plans in mind. Outnumbered and out of options, the two lawmen must solve the mystery of the missing girls or suffer the same fate.
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Over centuries humans have been mysteriously disappearing with no explanations, just hushed whispers in the dark. On the surface Prophet Hills seems like a perfect place to live and raise a family, but Danny Kessler (Baldwin) has seen better days. This is one man's journey to find the culprit of the ultimate sacrifice he's endured. He must face his demons and go back to the place that has haunted him. He must convince family, friends and townspeople that something is not right in Prophet Hills. He must make them believe that something evil is living beneath their own backyards.
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Based on the actual murder investigation that shocked a nation When hikers go missing, it's a problem. When the police who are sent to investigate the wayward hikers go missing too, there's a real problem. The ultimate horror unfolds as investigators find the actual footage taken at the scene of the crime, showing in detail what the innocent victims had to endure. Packed with interviews, unseen evidence and banned footage, the Athens County Massacre reveals for the first time, the deep government conspiracy to cover up alien experimentation on human beings.
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A group of medical activists get care to those who need it most, by any means necessary.
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Matthew, a home alone teenager is actually watching TV when someone ring twice at his door. He first goes to watch at the window, then at the door when something slithering inside his house for a deadly confrontation.
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Matthew, a home alone teenager is actually watching TV when someone ring twice at his door. He first goes to watch at the window, then at the door when something slithering inside his house for a deadly confrontation.
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17 of the most dangerous killers are narrowed down from a universe-wide casting call to be interviewed for job placement. A rogue assassin from the future, Antevorta, uses his specific skills to restore peace to humanity.
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Birdwatchers, activists, scientists, and a film crew unknowingly converge in Bigfoot's neck of the woods, where something even more sinister lurks.
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A thrilling, gritty and emotional story of two of history’s most famous lovers, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow.
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A bandit holes up in a strange mansion only to be confronted with an ancient cannibalistic evil.
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An expedition of five students and their mentor are send to find what happened to a documentary crew reportedly missing and last seen around the Bermuda Triangle. After reaching the Bermuda and rented a boat owned by two cryptid hunters the terror slowly takes shape while they're surrounded by something unknown coming from the deepest parts of the ocean.
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An expedition of five students and their mentor are send to find what happened to a documentary crew reportedly missing and last seen around the Bermuda Triangle. After reaching the Bermuda and rented a boat owned by two cryptid hunters the terror slowly takes shape while they're surrounded by something unknown coming from the deepest parts of the ocean.
