Soundtrack Review: Serialist Randy Edelman on “The Possession of Anne” (Formerly) “The Beast Inside”

Overwhelming in its scope, terrifying in its significance, stinging like a religious initiation, like a tempest rain coming down straight as a silvery dagger’s punishment. Submersed in tender beauty as well as intolerable suspense, composer and motion picture music architect Randy Edelman created and performed the music to the new thriller “The Possession of Anne” formally “The Beast Inside” set for a Halloween release in 2023.

The film stars Vernon Wells (The Commandos, Mad Max, Weird Science), Sadie Katz (The Bill Murray Experience), and Laurene Landon (Airplane, Maniac Cops). It is directed by Jim Towns and produced by See You Next Tuesday Films with executive producers Mario Reyes, John Pasquale, Jimmy Star and Eileen Shapiro. The film follows Anne’s quest to rid herself of a family inherited unworldly demon that threatens to kill her and then move on to her young son. It themes a self-exorcism motif which no film has conquered yet and a twisted surprise ending.

However, it was the music of Randy Edelman that embodied the essence of the movie and delivered it to a level beyond. The heavy, hopelessness and interminable beats wormed its way into the souls of the characters and embraced the Beast. But then the maestro with his strong aesthetic and fiery perception and his finely tuned artistic sensibility pursued the innocent beauty and the vulnerable innermost hearts of the dramatist personae.

As an award winning and highly acclaimed composer Randy has hundreds of iconic film and TV scores in his catalog including “Last of the Mohicans”, “Dragonheart”, “My Cousin Vinny”, “Ghostbusters ll”, “While You Were Sleeping”, the theme from the hit series “MacGyver” and way too many more to name. He is also the pinnacle of pop song writers with huge hits covered by Barry Manilow, Patti LaBelle, Nelly, Bing Crosby, Olivia, Newton-John, Dionne Warwick, and a vast array of others. His own charted records include “Uptown Uptempo Woman”, “Concrete and Clay”, “Comin’ Out the Other Side” and most recently “Pretty Girls” which is also in “The Possession of Anne.”

Randy Edelman takes a film and with his music holds a universe together. In “The Possession of Anne” he used the color and the texture of the music and Gregorian chants to show the unwavering and smothering heaviness of the unrelenting cruelty of the demon. Then he took the most beautiful and angelic notes that seemed to fill the entire world with the slanting rays and warm orange majestic glow of sunset that was merely the prelude to the dawn with its hopes and aspirations…C’est l’unde sea plus grands triomphes de Santa carrière…Bravo Randy Edelman

Photo Credits: Billy Hess