His music for that series was lauded by Variety as “innovative,” “like no other” by NPR, and earned him a coveted spot on Io9.com’s “Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time.”
Abrams on the Cloverfield film series, scoring the Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot films 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Cloverfield Paradox. Time Magazine raved that 10 Cloverfield Lane‘s “finest feature may be Bear McCreary’s playfully malicious score, a beehive of worried-sounding strings that channels the spirit of Hitchcock fave Bernard Herrmann.” USA Today praised the “fantastic wordless opening set to Bear McCreary’s roiling, glorious score.” McCreary’s incorporation of Blaster Beam, yialli tanbur and other exotic instruments into the gripping thriller drew upon his experience from his first job: scoring the influential and revered Battlestar Galactica. There’s simply a level of supremely effective bombast in the soundtrack that is unrivaled by the current batch of blockbuster films.” In stark contrast, McCreary used an inventive “toy orchestra” to score MGM and Orion’s hit Child’s Play (2019), creating what the Chicago Tribune declared “an all time great score.” The film features ”The Buddi Song,” the critically acclaimed song performed by the film’s star Mark Hamill, which the Charleston Post Courier described as “the creepiest thing I’ve heard all year.” These were not McCreary’s first monster films, as he collaborated closely with producer J.J. SuperheroHype declared “McCreary’s music is so epic that it’s hard to imagine Godzilla: King of the Monsters without it. and Legendary’s follow-up to the 2014 hit. McCreary also scored feature film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Warner Bros.
As composer for the series, he will guide audiences through the major events of J.R.R. Forbes recently declared ”as a composer, his genre track record is one of the most impressive in modern day Hollywood.” Currently, McCreary is scoring The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon Studios’ record-shattering series that debuted to twenty-five-million viewers. Two decades later, McCreary has validated Bernstein’s instincts, having proven himself one of the most versatile and in-demand composers in the industry. A chance encounter led him to film music legend Elmer Bernstein, who moored his boat in Bellingham harbor. The maestro recognized a passion for musical storytelling in the ambitious high school student, and encouraged him to study composition at the USC School of Music in Los Angeles, where he took him on as a protégé. In the sleepy port town of Bellingham, Washington, sixteen-year-old aspiring composer Bear McCreary imagined and wrote his own films, just so he could score them.
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