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Open the box, unleash the demon.

Howlin' Wolf Records proudly presents Christoph Allerstorfer's score for THE JACK IN THE BOX: AWAKENING (2022). The setting for the sequel to writer/director Lawrence Fowler's 2019 demon monster horror flick, THE JACK IN THE BOX, is the Rosewood Manor estate where Olga Marsdale, played by Nicola Wright, is dying from terminal osteosarcoma. The film has an unsettling sense of isolation, and while set in modern times, maintains an eerie period feel with superb set design, cinematography, and a creature that is, simply put, nightmarishly terrifying. The gripping story blurs the lines between the monsters in our darkest imagination and the real "monsters" that lurk everywhere. Fowler delivers a horror film in the mold of classic monster movies featuring a terrifying and relentless creature whose inhuman gurgling and rasping shrieks are the stuff of nightmares.

Breathing emotional depth and life into every scene in THE JACK IN THE BOX: AWAKENING, as only a great score can, is Christoph Allerstorfer's gothic symphony performed by a 42-piece orchestra, Big Island Orchestra Vienna. As Fowler ups the ante with a sequel that is unapologetically meaner, badder, and bigger than the original, Allerstorfer matches this force head-on with a score that eloquently soars to greater heights, hallmarking a sophisticated and lush approach that builds palpable foreboding dread, in exquisite style. To be treated to a horror movie and story of this caliber, with a grande score performed by an orchestra comprised of Vienna's best classical musicians, will leave you applauding.

THE JACK IN THE BOX: AWAKENING is lovingly dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and longtime Howlin' Wolf Records producer and promotional specialist Jeremy Hawkins by composer Christoph Allerstorfer and the entire HWR team.

THE JACK IN THE BOX: AWAKENING features a 16-page booklet with liner notes by composer Christoph Allerstorfer and a special note from writer/director Lawrence Fowler, all presented with gorgeous imagery from the film, orchestra sessions, and packaging by Howlin' Wolf Records' renowned Art Director Luis Miguel Rojas.

Click on highlighted tracks below to hear excerpts from select score cues. 

THE JACK IN THE BOX: AWAKENING
Running Time: 65:62

1. Demonic Box (3:48)
2. Life (1:08)
3. Unleashed (0:46)
4. The Deal Is Made / Awakening (1:45)
5. The Manor (2:24)
6. Six Must Die (2:29)
7. The Cellar (2:45)
8. Foreshadow (0:26)
9. Jack Kills (2:45)
10. Sacrifices (1:16)
11. Deadly Secret (0:34)
12. Betrayed (0:49)
13. Sleep of the Doomed (1:59)
14. Out of Sight (1:11)
15. Origin of the Jack / Dead Woman Walking (6:10)
16. Captured (0:25)
17. Mother (0:59)
18. Jack Kills Again (1:55)
19. Edgar's Secret / Eyeballs (3:44)
20. Chasing Amy (1:03)
21. Hallucinating (1:39)
22. Bad Medicine (0:54)
23. Jack Kills Some More (3:29)
24. We Need to Leave (1:39)
25. Hiding (0:42)
26. Don't Go Through the Cellar (1:35)
27. Foul Play (0:30)
28. Jack Kills Another One (1:16)
29. No Way Out (2:13)
30. Amy Kills (2:20)
31. Stalking Jack (0:54)
32. Escaping Rosewood Manor / Consider Us Even, Mother (4:23)
33. Six Must Die - Demo Extended Version (Bonus Track) (4:12)
34. Consider Us Even, Mother - Demo (Bonus Track) (1:15)