Emer Landers Receives Best Sound & Music Jury Prize at Horror Underground Film & Screenplay Festival

Irish composer Emer Landers has been awarded the Jury Prize of Best Sound & Music at the Horror Underground Film & Screenplay Festival in Canada for her work on Eldritch Karaoke. This award, shared with sound designer Dominic Lawrence, recognises the film’s distinctive and immersive soundscape, which uses a combination of score, sound design, and an original song in order to bringing its eerie story to life.

The Horror Underground Film & Screenplay Festival is dedicated to celebrating bold, boundary-pushing horror films and screenplays that challenge audience expectations and disrupt traditional storytelling. Taking place six times a year in Montreal and Los Angeles, the festival highlights independent filmmakers who work outside the commercial system, offering them both theatrical screenings and virtual industry showcases.

Directed by Joe Loftus, Eldritch Karaoke is a darkly comic, horror-infused musical that follows a woman’s surreal afterlife journey after a fatal accident. The film’s haunting score and original song feature vocals by members of the Musical Theatre Society “Entracte”, a live performance by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, with mixing by John Elleson-Hartley. The film has already screened at prestigious festivals, including The 36th Galway Film Fleadh and Belfast International Film Festival, and is set to screen at Animation Dingle 2025.

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