The Newton Brothers (Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil) have composed the music for the first episode of the upcoming Hulu horror anthology series Into the Dark. The episode, entitled The Body, is directed by Paul Davis and stars Tom Bateman, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Aurora Perrineau, David Hull and Ray Santiago. The Body is set in the selfie culture of Los Angeles on Halloween night and follows a sophisticated, overconfident hitman who always carries out his work in style and decides to take things even further one day by transporting his latest victim in plain sight. Michael Wandmacher (Underworld: Blood Wars, Piranha 3D) is scoring the show’s second episode, Flesh & Blood, directed by Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000) and starring Dermot Mulroney, Diana Silvers and Tembi Locke. The episode follows a doting father trying to help his daughter, a teenager suffering from agoraphobia, who has not left the house since her mother’s still-unsolved murder. Wandmacher has previously scored Lussier’s last couple of features including Drive Angry and My Bloody Valentine. Jason Blum (Get Out, The Purge, Paranormal Activity) is executive producing the series through his Blumhouse production company. The Body is set to premiere on October 5 and on Flesh & Blood will debut on November 2 on Hulu.
The Newton Brothers’ other upcoming projects also include the Netflix original series The Haunting of Hill House and the supernatural thriller Mary starring Gary Oldman. Wandmacher also continues to score ABC’s The Goldbergs, which will return for its sixth season on September 29. He also recently scored the thriller Patient Zero, which will be released in select theaters on September 14 by Vertical Entertainment following its VOD debut last month.
