Biography and filmography

Matt Jantzen

Matt Jantzen was born in 1981 in Geneva, Switzerland. He started composing film music in 2006 and now has a total of around 60 full features films, short movies, documentaries and advertising since his first score for "La Vraie Vie d'Arthur" (which he co-composed with fellow composer and famous Swiss pianist Eric Bakhch-Pour). He scored his first full feature film "Born of Earth" in 2008 and then continued to score short movies the following years. Many of his short movies scores, including "The Last Rung on the Ladder", "Abyss", "She", "The Wound", "Picturesque", "The Remains of Clayton Lake" and "Death Crocodile", were well received from the public, movie critics and in film festivals. Among his next compositions one can find the score for a documentary on the "Saw" franchise, the acclaimed short films "Sundays" and "Fuoco" and segments from the comedy anthology "Movie 43" starring Hugh Jackman, Dennis Quaid, Chris Pratt, Chloë Grace Moretz and Richard Gere that directly lead him to return scoring full feature horror film as "After Midnight", "The Blackout", the TV movie "Demon Legacy" and the acclaimed crime drama "Savior of None" in 2014. Then Matt scored several feature films as "No Solicitors", "The Encounter", "Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper", "Residue", "Havana Darkness", "Hitchhiker Massacre", "Ravers", "This Old Machine", "Freshwater", "Exit 18" and some additional music works for "13 Eerie", "Sorority Party Massacre" and more recently the theatrical release "Distorted" starring Christina Ricci and John Cusack. He also provided some atmospheric drone music to the Netflix TV Show "Black Summer". Among his latest work one can find the scores to the horror film "It Hungers", the monster movies "Abominable" and "Amityville Island", the critically acclaimed horror / thriller "Red Handed", segments from the horror anthology "Horror Nights" and the action / horror movie "Shadow in the Cloud" starring Chloë Grace Moretz.

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Movies (66)

Shark Island

Shark Island

2024 · Original Music Composer

Amityville Bigfoot

Amityville Bigfoot

2024 · Original Music Composer

Amityville in Space

Amityville in Space

2022 · Original Music Composer

House Squatch

House Squatch

2022 · Original Music Composer

Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse

Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse

2021 · Original Music Composer

Dune World

Dune World

2021 · Original Music Composer

Operación matador

Operación matador

2021 · Original Music Composer

There's Something in the Shadows

There's Something in the Shadows

2021 · Original Music Composer

Devil's Island

Devil's Island

2021 · Original Music Composer

Red Handed

Red Handed

2020 · Original Music Composer

Killer Weekend

Killer Weekend

2020 · Original Music Composer

Aléjate del ático

Aléjate del ático

2020 · Original Music Composer

Lost Boys

Lost Boys

2020 · Original Music Composer

Ravers

Ravers

2020 · Original Music Composer

Ocean

Ocean

2020 · Original Music Composer

Horror Shark

Horror Shark

2020 · Original Music Composer

Abominable

Abominable

2020 · Original Music Composer

Horror Nights

Horror Nights

2020 · Music

Amityville Island

Amityville Island

2020 · Original Music Composer

Susan Hill's Ghost Story

Susan Hill's Ghost Story

2019 · Original Music Composer

It Hungers

It Hungers

2019 · Original Music Composer

2177: The San Francisco Love Hacker Crimes

2177: The San Francisco Love Hacker Crimes

2019 · Original Music Composer

Havana Darkness

Havana Darkness

2019 · Original Music Composer

Demon

Demon

2018 · Original Music Composer

Hangover in Death Valley

Hangover in Death Valley

2018 · Original Music Composer

Shutter

Shutter

2018 · Original Music Composer

Watch If You Dare

Watch If You Dare

2018 · Original Music Composer

Krampus Origins

Krampus Origins

2018 · Original Music Composer

Frozen Sasquatch

Frozen Sasquatch

2018 · Original Music Composer

Distorsionado

Distorsionado

2018 · Original Music Composer

Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece

Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece

2018 · Original Music Composer

DeadThirsty

DeadThirsty

2018 · Original Music Composer

Dead by Midnight (11PM Central)

Dead by Midnight (11PM Central)

2018 · Original Music Composer

Freshwater

Freshwater

2017 · Original Music Composer

This Old Machine

This Old Machine

2017 · Original Music Composer

Cold Ground

Cold Ground

2017 · Original Music Composer

Derelict

Derelict

2017 · Original Music Composer

Residue

Residue

2017 · Original Music Composer

Paranoia Tapes

Paranoia Tapes

2017 · Original Music Composer

The Portal

The Portal

2017 · Original Music Composer

Hitchhiker Massacre

Hitchhiker Massacre

2017 · Original Music Composer

Breakdown Lane

Breakdown Lane

2017 · Original Music Composer

Beach Massacre at Kill Devil Hills

Beach Massacre at Kill Devil Hills

2016 · Original Music Composer

Amityville: No Escape

Amityville: No Escape

2016 · Original Music Composer

Magi

Magi

2016 · Original Music Composer

Exit 14

Exit 14

2016 · Original Music Composer

Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper

Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper

2016 · Original Music Composer

The Encounter

The Encounter

2015 · Original Music Composer

No Solicitors

No Solicitors

2015 · Original Music Composer

Sundays

Sundays

2015 · Original Music Composer

Air Disturbance

Air Disturbance

2014 · Music, Original Music Composer

The Blackout

The Blackout

2014 · Original Music Composer

After Midnight

After Midnight

2014 · Original Music Composer

Snackpocalypse

Snackpocalypse

2014 · Original Music Composer

Demon Legacy

Demon Legacy

2014 · Original Music Composer

13 Eerie

13 Eerie

2013 · Additional Music

Proyecto 43

Proyecto 43

2013 · Original Music Composer

Sorority Party Massacre

Sorority Party Massacre

2012 · Additional Music

The Last Rung on the Ladder

The Last Rung on the Ladder

2012 · Music

The Boogeyman

The Boogeyman

2012 · Music

Born of Earth

Born of Earth

2011 · Original Music Composer

Athens County Massacre

Athens County Massacre

2008 · Original Music Composer

The Cure

The Cure

2007 · Original Music Composer

The House-Bell

The House-Bell

2002 · Screenplay, Director

Monstrous: Interview with a Killer

Monstrous: Interview with a Killer

· Original Music Composer

Love Is a Gun

Love Is a Gun

· Compositor

TV shows (1)