Therapy has signed sound designer Eddie Kim who comes over from 740 Sound Design & Mix, his roost for the past seven years. His work spans spots, features, shorts, documentaries, music videos and video games. Kim’s sonic stylings were notably featured in this year’s Super Bowl spots “A Dream Car. For Real Life” for Kia out of David&Goliath and the classic cartoon character-infused “Everyone” for Metlife out of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
Kim has also lent his audio acumen to feature films including 8 Mile, Riding Giants, Dogtown and Z Boys, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and top video game titles including “Prince of Persia: Warrior Within” and “Enter the Matrix.”
While earning a BFA in Film from San Francisco-based Academy of Art University, Kim developed his audio style by immersing himself in Bay Area culture as a highly sought-after D.J. After a year working on projects with local Outpost Studios, he headed south to Los Angeles where he spent the next five years as a sound designer at Danetracks, Inc., before landing at 740 Sound Design.
Kim’s work over the years has garnered assorted awards at such competitions as Cannes, the AICP Show, D&ADs and the Clios. On the web, he has worked on an educational animated series that teaches the ABC’s of literacy to children around the world. Kim also recently contributed to a Los Angeles MOCA installation for a project created by C.R. Stacyk.
Led by founders Joe DiSanto, John Ramsey, Wren Waters and Doobie White, Therapy offers talent and resources spanning creative editorial, sound, design and postproduction.
Faith In The Power of Holy Horror To Connect With Moviegoers–From “The Exorcist” To “Heretic”
In the new horror movie, "Heretic," Hugh Grant plays a diabolical religious skeptic who traps two scared missionaries in his house and tries to violently shake their faith.
What starts more as a religious studies lecture slowly morphs into a gory escape room for the two door-knocking members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, underscoring just how well-suited religion can be for terrifying and entertaining thrill-seeking moviegoers.
"I think it is a fascinating religion-related horror as it raises questions about the institution of religion, the patriarchy of religion," said Stacey Abbott, a film professor at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, whose research interests include horror, vampires and zombies.
"But it also questions the nature of faith and confronts the audience with a debate about choice, faith and free will."
Horror has had a decades-long attraction to religion, Christianity especially in the U.S., with the 1970s "The Exorcist" and "The Omen" being prime examples. Beyond the jump scares, the supernatural elements of horror and its sublime nature pair easily with belief and spirituality — and religion's exploration of big existential questions, Abbott said. Horror is subversive. Real-life taboo topics and cultural anxieties are fair game.
"It is a rich canvas for social critique and it can also be a space to reassert traditional values," Abbott said in an email.
Death, demons and other tough topics religion and horror address
Religions and horror tackle similar questions about what it means to be human — how people relate to one another and the world, said Brandon Grafius, a Biblical studies professor at Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit and an expert on... Read More