It’s the end of the world as we know it, but one with more of a tantalizing musical whisper than an overwrought bang. For while TAKE SHELTER’s stormy doom might promise an orchestral apocalypse, its catastrophe is filtered through the creepy visions of a man doubting his own sanity, making this a disaster movie of the mind, as opposed to the Irwin Allen kind. It’s a relative lack of spectacle and budget that also opens up intriguing musical visions from composer David Wingo.
Just as he provided the evocative soundtracks for such character-driven Indies as ALL THE REAL GIRLS and SNOW ANGELS, TAKE SHELTER drifts hauntingly by on layers of troubled strings and bells, a mesmerizing tone that gradually tips over into an outright nightmare. It’s an ethereal, experimental approach that’s similar to Thomas Newman’s take on THE RAPTURE, even though there’s no religious context as such in TAKE SHELTER. Yet eerie transcendence resonates through Wingo’s evocative work of dream-like dread, a sound of resigned transcendence that ultimately whips up the small orchestra to a finale of TWILIGHT ZONE-like irony. The fact that Wingo even manages a country ballad (sung by Ben Nichols) gets extra points for his impressive, understated creativity that makes you believe in Armageddon.
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