Leanna Primiani

The Bad Seed

Variety - June 6, 2019 .... Lifetime’s “The Bad Seed” — a modern remake of the ’50s classic about an evil little girl (played by Mckenna Grace) — could easily have tripped into camp territory, given the subject matter and the stream of murders she very obviously commits. But L.A. composer Leanna Primiani treated it seriously, upping the suspense quotient as the child’s father (Rob Lowe, who also directed) slowly faces the truth. Lowe requested “something very lush and scary, like ‘Out of Africa’ meets ‘The Shining,’” Primiani recalls. She developed a melodic theme, a melancholy piece for strings that hints at the malevolence but might be more mood-setting than finger-pointing at the killer. Primiani augmented her 25-piece orchestra (strings, horns and clarinets) with an out-of-tune piano. “Every little girl plays the piano, but there is something so off about her, that the piano had to be off, too,” ... (read full article on Variety.com)

SIGNAL

Selection from the short SIGNAL, post-apocalyptic drama Produced by Women in Film and FOX Searchlight

A Film By Vera Vaughn

Selection from the award winning short 'a film by VERA VAUGHN' by Sorrel Brae. In this ghost story for the digital age, filmmaker Vera Vaughn works late into the night, editing her psychological thriller about a woman jeopardized by a mysterious home intruder. But when she's interrupted by a knock at the door, Vera’s world takes a frightening turn toward the surreal as life threatens to imitate art — or is it the other way around?