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THE WRETCHEDA defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door.
Two inexplicably coherent zombies awake amidst a zombie attack and decide to take a road trip to find the one's lost love, unaware they are being chased by the agents of a ruthless company with its own nefarious agenda
ABOUT
Tense and provocative motifs, majestic and impassioned landscapes of the mind, Devin's compositions take the audience on a sonic journey. Picking up the guitar at 12, Devin began his decades-long formative training of music theory, jazz performance, and composition. In 2011 he wrote the score for the feature DEADHEADS, a playfully macabre and surprisingly sentimental amalgamation of themes cleverly woven, in the spirit of Debussy, and Jerry Goldsmith. Forever curious, Devin is a devoted student of classical composers like Ravel, Stravinsky, and Webern, burying himself deeply in their scores.
"I never stop learning; It's important to have many arrows in your quiver to help tell the story."
Devin's rich orchestral music is a balance between modern classical, the Hollywood music of yesteryear, and the avant-garde. His score for THE WRETCHED goes from Bernard-Hermanesque tension to all out aleatoric apprehension. Full orchestra along with the throaty quality of sarangi and metallic vibrations of bowed psaltery transport the audience into the wooded den of the THE WRETCHED's witch antagonist.
"Devin Burrows' score would be essential in giving THE WRETCHED its tonal consistency with a score that seemed to grow from the muddy bowels of the earth, progressing through suspenseful, sometimes humorous suspicion to assume its true, pulse-pounding form"
Daniel SchweigerTHE BEST SCORES OF 2020Daniel Schweiger. "THE BEST SCORES OF 2020", The Film Music Institute, December, 2020
Devin has several film credits for composition; he continues to compose independently, and for film.
PRESS
"Building tension with a remarkable variety of themes... Burrows finally unleashes a symphonically throttling, malefic sound befitting an unlikelyhero meeting a vicious crone."
Daniel SchweigerTHE BEST SCORES OF 2020Daniel Schweiger. "THE BEST SCORES OF 2020", The Film Music Institute, December, 2020
"Graced by a Devin Burrows score that escalates from ominous dread into nerve-jangling haute terror"
David Rooney. "'The Wretched': Film Review", The Hollywood Reporter, April, 2020
"Unsettling score by Devin Burrows"
Geoff Berkshire. "Review: ‘The Wretched' is a nifty horror film with shades of both Spielberg and Hitchcock", The Los Angeles Times, April, 2020
"A solid design and tech package is capped by Devin Burrows' strong score."
Dennis Harvey. "Fantasia Film Review: ‘The Wretched' - Variety", July, 2019
"The sound and music departments for The Wretched deserve extra gold stars."
ZED. "Robert's Fantasia 2019 Review: The Wretched (2019)", July, 2019
"The orchestral suspense of Devin Burrows' score, the incredible creature effects, the constant sense of peril and a very well-handled twist mark the film as absolutely top-notch terror"
Bitel, Anton. "The Wretched (2019) at Fantasia 2019", July 2019
"This creates the best kind of atmosphere you could ever want from a horror film, and it has the chilling score by Devin Burrows to match."
Clements, Sarah. "Fantasia 2019 Review: THE WRETCHED Is One of the Year's Best Scares", July 20, 2019
"The cinematography is eerily stunning and the accompanying score is excellent at eliciting suspense."
Stranger, Toni. "Fantasia 2019: ‘The Wretched' Review – A Chilling Blend of Fairy Tale and Horror", July 20, 2019
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"I relish creating a one-of-a-kind sonic tapestry; taking the audience on a journey"
