Robert Eggers’ latest film doesn’t come out until Christmas, but Waxwork Records is already building hype for the film. The boutique label has already launched pre-orders for the soundtrack to Werwulf, Eggers’ new film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Lily-Rose Depp, which comes to vinyl in January.
In partnership with Sacred Bones Records, Waxwork is offering an exclusive vinyl variant of the soundtrack, available in what they call “Snowy Nyght Splatter” — a white record featuring a traditional splatter pattern in black, silver, and brown. The pressing comes as a double LP with a whopping thirty-seven tracks, and retails for $36 USD. (A steal compared to some of Waxwork’s other soundtrack offerings!)
The score for Werwulf is written by Robin Carolan, who also worked with Eggers on The Northman and Nosferatu, so expect a lot of the same gritty, folksy, surreal sounds that you’ve come to expect from his previous films. The soundtrack also features “Wynter Waxeth,” an original song written by ambient folk artist Ethen Cain. The song is performed entirely in Middle English, with Eggers’ assisting the singer with her pronunciations.
Werwulf is Eggers’ fifth feature film, and also stars returning favorites Willem Dafoe and Ralph Ineson, as well as Kate Dickie and Ned Dennehy. Described in its logline as “a harrowing tale of devotion, damnation, and the devil within,” Werwulf is set in a 13th century English village plagued by a mysterious beast — as the tale goes in almost all werewolf stories — with local folklore becoming gruesome reality for its inhabitants.
Eggers described the film to Esquire as “haunted and in great pain,” and “trying to find salvation through love.” Sounds like a similar throughline to the one in Nosferatu, only this time with a lot more dirt and grime:
It's a really brutal, unforgiving, merciless, grotesque world. More than ever, it's mud and blood and dung and rain and pain and suffering. Aaron's performance is incredibly harrowing. We'll say without a doubt that it's his best performance, and the stuff that he does physically in the transformation scenes are incredibly extreme. The emotional intensity he brings to the role is equally as extreme.
Werwulf arrives in theaters on Christmas Day, and its soundtrack is available for preorder now.
