Keep in mind how spooked Ethel Cain followers had been once they first heard Perverts, her darkish ambient album from 2025 that adopted Preacher’s Daughter? It appears director Robert Eggers appreciated that atmospheric left flip from the singer-songwriter, as a result of he’s tapped her and his former collaborator Robin Carolan to soundtrack Werwulf, his new gothic folks horror movie due out Christmas Day. The complete soundtrack is out digitally December 18, with a vinyl launch to comply with on January 29 through Sacred Bones, however you may hearken to Carolan’s title observe contribution proper now.
Directed by Eggers and co-written with Sjón, Werwulf places a brand new spin on the basic werewolf story, wherein a 14th-century English city is haunted by a beast who threatens the security of a person and his household. It stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, and Lily-Rose Depp. Carolan wrote the majority of the film’s soundtrack, with Cain partnering collectively for the tune “Wynter Waxeth.”
Describing the joint songwriting course of, Carolan stated: “I’d ship [Cain] medieval music, prayers, bizarre ambient stuff, and we’d speak by way of all of it. It was a kind of uncommon collaborations the place we simply appeared to be on the identical web page about every thing. Initially we’d talked about her contributing vocals to the rating in a extra textural method, however it wasn’t lengthy till we began discussing a full blown tune. Her expertise and open mindedness to strive various things is truthfully unbelievable. She sang the tune in Center English, and with Rob’s assist she mastered the pronunciation on the hop, virtually in a single session. She introduced a lot earthy, feral, haunted magnificence to the rating, and it’s laborious to think about it with out her presence.”
Cain’s most up-to-date album, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll All the time Love You, got here out in 2025. In the meantime, Carolan has been steadily scoring motion pictures for Eggers, together with his 2022 viking epic The Northman and his 2024 silent horror Nosferatu.
Revisit Madison Bloom’s interview with Carolan in How The Northman’s Composers Dreamed Up a Totally different Sort of Viking Film Rating.
