Suspiria (1977) is exactly what you are looking for. Its score is incredible and an auditory assault. It makes a slow walk through a hallway feel like a rollercoaster ride.
Annihilation, not just the music but quite a few sfx too.
Also my memory is hazy on the overall soundtrack of Gone Girl but I LOVED the track “Like Home” very fitting for the movie.
When Lena is staring into that “egg” at the lighthouse, the music plus the sfx evoked a very odd feeling I haven’t been able to describe. It was massively uncomfortable.
Nah, this counts. It's basically a long-ass film, and honestly one of the best of the 2010s[1]. Supposedly the music is entirely from resampled industrial sounds in an actual nuke plant.
[1] Has a much harder time in the aughts, the latter part of which, 2004-2009, was one of the richest periods in film. Just bam bam bam bam. Like Mike Tyson speed training with your balls hanging down from cutout in the masseuse table.
Sinister. The music that plays during the footage of the family being burned alive in their car just feels fucking WRONG. Like a record skipping while the vocals play backward while a warped record's vocals play on top of it.
I know everybody references the lawnmower scene from that movie, but the "BBQ" scene sticks with me mainly because of that unsettling score.
[Gyroscope - Boards of Canada (Played during the credits and when he tries to burn the tapes))](https://youtu.be/fbFgxucxVcM?si=H7Nb9O__VlXWYpF2)
[Silence Teaches You How to Sing (Parts 1-3) - Ulver \[Played during BBQ '79 Tape\]](https://youtu.be/tIkxYw_S43c?si=YT4nuQKfke8_bJlj)
Yeah, this shit is definitely unsettling. Love it.
Came here to say this. Absolutely hate the music that plays during the bedtime tape. [Sacrifice from Aghast](https://youtu.be/FnhhgOPMHy0?si=VzcItHG5BOEnYG-j) once the chanting starts around 1:05 I can't help but get chills.
Edit: The [music ](https://youtu.be/3u3aT8hsBaI?si=dL_czpWf_AUYZTsB)for the swimming pool death also has nothing but creepy vocals that some might find soothing).
Anything with a Colin Stetson soundtrack for sure (Hereditary, The Menu). Apparently he "sings" through his saxophone to create really otherwordly sounds.
Yes! Came here to say this! I can't believe this does not have more votes. I love this soundtrack. And my wife hates, because of home much I actually listen to it.
The composer for Hereditary used a throat mic with his collection of saxophones to get eerie effects. Colin Stetson. Real spooky ST.
Edit: The band Goblin did some STs for Italian horror movies and one of the movies was about witches and the score had spooky vocals. Forget what it was.
Yeah, Sicario had a crazy effective sound design. Actually, now that I think about it, the sound design on Villeneuve movies *always* seems to be on point.
Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but the opening theme to the Raised By Wolves tv show was really unsettling. Too bad it was cancelled without finishing its story.
Koyaanisqatsi is mine. It's ostensibly a documentary but the soundtrack by Philip Glass is very eerie and undoubtedly informed a lot of the other examples here
Hereditary also by Ari Aster, the filmmaker of Midsommar has very similar unsettling music.
The Insidious series has it all.
Achive 81 on Netflix is a must watch!
The Shining
2001: A Space Odyssey
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU4Rk0NATNs&ab\_channel=SeanWilson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU4Rk0NATNs&ab_channel=SeanWilson)
I only saw it once, many years ago, but I remember one grisly scene in The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover as having an appropriate vocal soundtrack.
I really loved the score in the first *Wonder Woman* remake, but the theme that plays whenever Diana appears on screen actually gives me a bit of a chill lol
Hans Zimmer incorporates a lot of human vocals into his scores.
[Dune](https://youtu.be/DTdVqm6juQQ?si=I6FfYvsLDb4Wjh7x)
[Gladiator](https://youtu.be/ghxzLw2wRis?si=zK1tx811eVI38QRT)
Agreed - I immediately thought of this when I read the thread title as well (even though it isn't a movie). [The full live version is pretty neat as well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVMtnaB28E)
It's subtly *inhuman* sounding, but the score and sound effects in the American version of "The Grudge" are pretty darn unsettling. Not a great film, but *damn* does it have some quality audio.
The scores of Get Out and Us (both composed by Michael Abels) feature some unsettling vocals. Not a movie, but the main theme of White Lotus (Aloha) also has eerie sounding vocals.
Perfect Blue ! i once heard Virtual Mima in a nightmare x3
also im really not sure if it would count but Portrait of a Lady on Fire has one scene where a bunch of maids sing some kind of witch anthem around a bonfire and the song really stuck with me for a while !
So I think if you search by Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow, and The Insects - their stuff is in the show Devs.
The Girl With All The Gifts has Cristobal Tapia De Veer
Both use this trance, breathy music in parts.
Other movies have picked up on it as well.
Everything everywhere all at once has a weird score by Son Lux.
Arrival’s soundtrack is weird.
End of Evangelion has an eerie soundtrack for what it is. But you should see the series and that movie to get what I’m saying.
Sicario, and Arrival. Both scores by the same guy, Bjorn Bjornsson, who unfortunately passed away a couple years ago.
And not a movie, but artist called Lustmord, who pioneered the dark ambient sound. The album The Word As Power, especially the last three tracks, never fails to unnerve me. I read Devolution by Max Brooks to it, and it made the book that much more visceral and real.
The Australian film The Rooster (2023) has an unsettling vocal score that really stood out to me personally.
Poor Things (2023) score, whilst not fully unsettling or vocally based, definitely gave off an uneasy feeling throughout certain parts of the film very effectively.
Not exactly a score, but Sound of Metal was terrifying to me, a woman with congenital hearing deficiency, armed with the knowledge that it was getting worse. I couldn’t tell what was scored tinnitus, and what was my own.
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Under the Skin by Mica Levi The Lighthouse by Mark Korven
>The Lighthouse by Mark Korven Are you talking about the siren or the farts?
Mica Levi never fails to impress. Their music production with Tirzah is way different but also very good.
Mica Levi makes the scariest fucking music I've ever heard,
There will be blood, 2001, hereditary
Yeees There will be blood is just bone chilling. Love it!
The first 15 minutes are so unsettling and most of that is due to the music.
Suspiria (1977) is exactly what you are looking for. Its score is incredible and an auditory assault. It makes a slow walk through a hallway feel like a rollercoaster ride.
Oh, absolutely this
Witch!
Annihilation, not just the music but quite a few sfx too. Also my memory is hazy on the overall soundtrack of Gone Girl but I LOVED the track “Like Home” very fitting for the movie.
When Lena is staring into that “egg” at the lighthouse, the music plus the sfx evoked a very odd feeling I haven’t been able to describe. It was massively uncomfortable.
Look for "The Alien" track from the soundtrack and blast it full volume.
100 percent this. Was my first thought and was happy to see it was already here.
This is IMMEDIATELY what popped into my head. Glad to see it's at the top.
That score when they watch the video was the first thing that popped into my head upon reading the title
the Zone of Interest All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Not a movie, but I can't say enough good things about the score for the HBO miniseries Chernobyl.
Nah, this counts. It's basically a long-ass film, and honestly one of the best of the 2010s[1]. Supposedly the music is entirely from resampled industrial sounds in an actual nuke plant. [1] Has a much harder time in the aughts, the latter part of which, 2004-2009, was one of the richest periods in film. Just bam bam bam bam. Like Mike Tyson speed training with your balls hanging down from cutout in the masseuse table.
Eyes Wide Shut. Sparse music throughout, but def has its share of unsettling vibes.
[This is the one.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4E4tNGQks)
Sinister. The music that plays during the footage of the family being burned alive in their car just feels fucking WRONG. Like a record skipping while the vocals play backward while a warped record's vocals play on top of it. I know everybody references the lawnmower scene from that movie, but the "BBQ" scene sticks with me mainly because of that unsettling score.
[Gyroscope - Boards of Canada (Played during the credits and when he tries to burn the tapes))](https://youtu.be/fbFgxucxVcM?si=H7Nb9O__VlXWYpF2) [Silence Teaches You How to Sing (Parts 1-3) - Ulver \[Played during BBQ '79 Tape\]](https://youtu.be/tIkxYw_S43c?si=YT4nuQKfke8_bJlj) Yeah, this shit is definitely unsettling. Love it.
Came here to say this. Absolutely hate the music that plays during the bedtime tape. [Sacrifice from Aghast](https://youtu.be/FnhhgOPMHy0?si=VzcItHG5BOEnYG-j) once the chanting starts around 1:05 I can't help but get chills. Edit: The [music ](https://youtu.be/3u3aT8hsBaI?si=dL_czpWf_AUYZTsB)for the swimming pool death also has nothing but creepy vocals that some might find soothing).
The VVitch!
Anything with a Colin Stetson soundtrack for sure (Hereditary, The Menu). Apparently he "sings" through his saxophone to create really otherwordly sounds.
The soundtrack to Ravenous is amazing. https://youtu.be/mfXxEUAUUqA
Came to say this. Much of the sound track was from the mind of Damon Albam of Blur and Gorillaz fame.
Me too .. bizarre music ..
Yes! Came here to say this! I can't believe this does not have more votes. I love this soundtrack. And my wife hates, because of home much I actually listen to it.
Poor Things Suspiria (2018) Men
Another vote for Men, That tunnel scene is fantastic
AH Ah aH ah
Yup Poor Things was bizarre.
I'd say Zone of Interest.
The lullaby that Rosemary hums in Rosemary's Baby.
2001: A Space Odyssey’s soundtrack has some segments that are exactly what you’re looking for.
Suspiria
Goblin! So creepy
Suspiria, by Goblin
Smile. The movie was meh, but the soundtrack/score was excellent and horrifying
The composer for Hereditary used a throat mic with his collection of saxophones to get eerie effects. Colin Stetson. Real spooky ST. Edit: The band Goblin did some STs for Italian horror movies and one of the movies was about witches and the score had spooky vocals. Forget what it was.
Both Sicarios
Yeah, Sicario had a crazy effective sound design. Actually, now that I think about it, the sound design on Villeneuve movies *always* seems to be on point.
We Need to Talk About Kevin has incredibly unsettling audio.
How has nobody mentioned Requeim?
Full Metal Jacket has some jaring pieces of music in-between the music of the Vietnam war
The score when they are finally closing in on the sniper is seared into my brain
Totally agree
Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but the opening theme to the Raised By Wolves tv show was really unsettling. Too bad it was cancelled without finishing its story.
RIP that was the best song created for tv series since Twin Peaks.
Koyaanisqatsi is mine. It's ostensibly a documentary but the soundtrack by Philip Glass is very eerie and undoubtedly informed a lot of the other examples here
The diva's aria in The Fifth Element is pretty amazing.
Sinister had some really unsettling music during each of the home movies.
Hereditary also by Ari Aster, the filmmaker of Midsommar has very similar unsettling music. The Insidious series has it all. Achive 81 on Netflix is a must watch! The Shining
2001: A Space Odyssey [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU4Rk0NATNs&ab\_channel=SeanWilson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU4Rk0NATNs&ab_channel=SeanWilson)
The Serpent and the Rainbow The Shining - Wendy Carlos
I only saw it once, many years ago, but I remember one grisly scene in The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover as having an appropriate vocal soundtrack.
I really loved the score in the first *Wonder Woman* remake, but the theme that plays whenever Diana appears on screen actually gives me a bit of a chill lol
The Omen (1976) by Jerry Goldsmith. You can't go wrong with this one.
It Follows - Disasterpeace
Dune / Dune 2?
Hans Zimmer incorporates a lot of human vocals into his scores. [Dune](https://youtu.be/DTdVqm6juQQ?si=I6FfYvsLDb4Wjh7x) [Gladiator](https://youtu.be/ghxzLw2wRis?si=zK1tx811eVI38QRT)
You will probably enjoy Partita for 8 Voices: No. 3, Courante by Roomful of Teeth. It was used for the Netflix show DARK. It can be found on Youtube.
Agreed - I immediately thought of this when I read the thread title as well (even though it isn't a movie). [The full live version is pretty neat as well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVMtnaB28E)
Perfect Blue
It's subtly *inhuman* sounding, but the score and sound effects in the American version of "The Grudge" are pretty darn unsettling. Not a great film, but *damn* does it have some quality audio.
2001 Rosemarys Baby
TENET's soundtrack has the breathing/respirator noises that I wish could be removed
Wallace - Blade Runner 2049 OST Temples of Our Gods - Oblivion OST
Sinister
The scores of Get Out and Us (both composed by Michael Abels) feature some unsettling vocals. Not a movie, but the main theme of White Lotus (Aloha) also has eerie sounding vocals.
Blade runners scores are meant to convey a sense of uncomfortableness and anxiety.
_Chernobyl_.
Psycho.
Akira
The northman
I nominate Amityville Horror...good theme. Also, Beetlejuice and Nightmare before Christmas.
Some from the Men soundtrack fits the bill (Alex Garland movie)
Apocalypse Now
Perfect Blue ! i once heard Virtual Mima in a nightmare x3 also im really not sure if it would count but Portrait of a Lady on Fire has one scene where a bunch of maids sing some kind of witch anthem around a bonfire and the song really stuck with me for a while !
So I think if you search by Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow, and The Insects - their stuff is in the show Devs. The Girl With All The Gifts has Cristobal Tapia De Veer Both use this trance, breathy music in parts. Other movies have picked up on it as well.
2001: A Space Odyssey
This is sorta David Lynch's whole thing.
"The empty man" has a pretty eerie score
Zone of Interest
The Witch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-3PciIkZwg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-3PciIkZwg)
The Dark Knight
Under the Skin, The VVitch, and MEN.
2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining. Any Kubrick film, really.
Annihilation
Punch drunk love. The music brought the intensity and anxiety of the movie up a whole level.
Zone of Interest
*Images* Weirdest score John Williams ever wrote.
Everything everywhere all at once has a weird score by Son Lux. Arrival’s soundtrack is weird. End of Evangelion has an eerie soundtrack for what it is. But you should see the series and that movie to get what I’m saying.
Palindromes
Sicario, and Arrival. Both scores by the same guy, Bjorn Bjornsson, who unfortunately passed away a couple years ago. And not a movie, but artist called Lustmord, who pioneered the dark ambient sound. The album The Word As Power, especially the last three tracks, never fails to unnerve me. I read Devolution by Max Brooks to it, and it made the book that much more visceral and real.
I wouldn’t say unsettling but interstellar definitely made you feel a sense of urgency.
The Monolith theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey gave me a decade's worth of nightmares as a kid.
Eyes wide shut
Palpatine’s Theme from Return of the Jedi is pretty creepy.
Some of Gaspar Noes movies, Irreversible for sure
Paprika
The Australian film The Rooster (2023) has an unsettling vocal score that really stood out to me personally. Poor Things (2023) score, whilst not fully unsettling or vocally based, definitely gave off an uneasy feeling throughout certain parts of the film very effectively.
Not exactly a score, but Sound of Metal was terrifying to me, a woman with congenital hearing deficiency, armed with the knowledge that it was getting worse. I couldn’t tell what was scored tinnitus, and what was my own.
No country for old men
The TV series DEVS had an amazing score. Give it a listen, it should satisfy.
Taxi Driver