Slasher Soundtrack - Cherry Falls

Cherry Falls 2009 Geoffrey Wright

The first sounds we hear are church bells and choir singing, whilst there is a shot of a church. The sound is both diagetic and non diagetic as we can see the church but not the choir. When the shot changes to a waterfall, here is still diagetic sound as we can hear it flowing. The church bells slowly fade away and the music changes to a fast tempo beat to increase the heart rate and therefore tension. It also creates an audio bridge to the next scene.

The next scene has diagetic sound of a girl and a boy talking. Fast paced music slowly gets louder to build the tension up to the killing scene. Loud drum sounds are used when the killer enters the scene, further building tension.

The sounds of the car door opening are exaggerated, and the music is fast paced and loud all the way through the killing. When the boy is hit by the killer the sound effect is loud and also exaggerated.
During the killing the noises of the knife slashing and stabbing are loud and inter-cut with the girls screams. The music is quite high pitched and fast paced.

When the girl goes to lock the car door the sound is exaggerated and the music gets quieter before the second killing happens. During this killing scene, the same music is played as before.

Here is the Trailer for Cherry Falls: