NPR's Rob Sachs profiles musician Charlie Clouser, who scored the soundtrack for the horror film Saw. Clouser has a history of writing provocative music as a former member of the band Nine Inch Nails.

In this edition, film composer and former Nine Inch Nails band member Charlie Clouser shares his picks for the 12 best horror movie scores, just in time for Halloween.

One thing that Clouser points to as a reason for Saw’s theme song being an enduring favorite among horror fans is the fact that, unlike so many other long-running franchises, they haven’t ...

Composer Charlie Clouser knows exactly how to set a creepy scene. Before he got into scoring for TV and film, Clouser played keyboard in the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. These days he’s ...

The Saw films composer also explores the making of the franchise's most iconic track, "Hello Zepp." After Leaving Nine Inch Nails, Charlie Clouser Broke John Williams’ Record With the Saw Movies ...

Charlie Clouser: A little bit of both, because even before I wandered around in the record industry for 15 years, the very first job that I ever had where I was being paid to make music was ...

Composer Charlie Clouser entered the history books twice in the past year: first for being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nine Inch Nails, and second for scoring “Saw X.” ...

Now, for Saw X, Clouser returns to the series as a composer and is ready to shred our faces off with his music. And we have a little taste of that with an exclusive track from the score, titled ...

Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is a former Nine Inch Nails band member whose activities include playing drums and keyboard, engineering, mixing and music ...