Harry Manfredini
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Film composer Harry Manfredini specializes in writing for horror films,
but is also a song writer and jazz soloist. From his haunting dramatic
scores for The Friday the 13th films, to his adventurous music for The
Omega Code, Harry Manfredini has established himself as a motion
picture music composer of the same style as Bernard Herrmann.
Manfredini's works in the film industry began when he joined Sean S. Cunningham for his low budget film Manny's Orphans (1978) in 1978, but it was his haunting score for Paramount's 1980 major motion picture Vendredi 13 (1980) that really gave the film its ideal and realistic and suspenseful score. Friday the 13th was also directed by Sean Cunningham, and Manfredini continued creating the scores for all the Friday the 13th sequels except for Part 8 which was taken over by Fred Mollin.
Manfredini's scores for House (1985), M.A.L. : Mutant aquatique en liberté (1989) and Le placard de l'angoisse (1988) also confirmed his appeal as a popular horror film composer, but he also composed for adventure, comedy and family films including La fièvre du printemps (1983), Aigle de fer III (1992) and Follow Your Heart (1999). In recent years, he composed the scores for major motion pictures, including Wes Craven's Wishmaster (1997), La prophétie des ténèbres (1999) and recently Jason X (2001) for New Line Cinema.
Manfredini's works in the film industry began when he joined Sean S. Cunningham for his low budget film Manny's Orphans (1978) in 1978, but it was his haunting score for Paramount's 1980 major motion picture Vendredi 13 (1980) that really gave the film its ideal and realistic and suspenseful score. Friday the 13th was also directed by Sean Cunningham, and Manfredini continued creating the scores for all the Friday the 13th sequels except for Part 8 which was taken over by Fred Mollin.
Manfredini's scores for House (1985), M.A.L. : Mutant aquatique en liberté (1989) and Le placard de l'angoisse (1988) also confirmed his appeal as a popular horror film composer, but he also composed for adventure, comedy and family films including La fièvre du printemps (1983), Aigle de fer III (1992) and Follow Your Heart (1999). In recent years, he composed the scores for major motion pictures, including Wes Craven's Wishmaster (1997), La prophétie des ténèbres (1999) and recently Jason X (2001) for New Line Cinema.
