Though the Newton Brothers’ body of work spans almost three decades, with numerous directors and various genres, their mastery of horror and collaboration with Flanagan has shaped their career, putting them on the map as the maestros of menace. But to simply coin them as horror composers seems cursory and limiting for the complexity of their scores, especially those with Flanagan, which, like the narratives of these projects themselves, play with many different gradients and shades of darkness that seep into the realm of depth and drama.
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