Film composer Harry Manfredini specializes in writing for horror films,
but is also a song writer and jazz soloist. From his haunting dramatic
scores for The Friday the 13th films, to his adventurous music for The
Omega Code, Harry Manfredini has established himself as a motion
picture music composer of the same style as Bernard Herrmann.
Manfredini's works in the film industry began when he joined Sean S. Cunningham
for his low budget film Manny's Orphans (1978) in 1978, but it was his haunting score
for Paramount's 1980 major motion picture Freitag, der 13. (1980) that really gave the
film its ideal and realistic and suspenseful score. Friday the 13th was
also directed by Sean Cunningham, and Manfredini continued creating the
scores for all the Friday the 13th sequels except for Part 8 which was
taken over by Fred Mollin.
Manfredini's scores for House - Das Horrorhaus (1985), DeepStar Six: Das Grauen in der Tiefe (1989) and Cameron (1988) also confirmed his
appeal as a popular horror film composer, but he also composed for
adventure, comedy and family films including Im Sauseschritt ins Dünenbett (1983), Die Asse der stählernen Adler (1992) and
Follow Your Heart (1999). In recent years, he composed the scores for major motion
pictures, including Wes Craven's Wishmaster (1997), The Omega Code (1999) and recently Jason X (2001)
for New Line Cinema.
