Score by Emmy-Nominated Composer PATRICK JONSSON
OTHER MOMMY, from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, is in theaters nationwide today
LOS ANGELES, CA – October 9th 2026 – Back Lot Music announces the release of the OTHER MOMMY Original Motion Picture Soundtrack with music by Emmy-nominated composer Patrick Jonsson, who also composed the music for the Oscar®-nominated documentary Virunga and the 2023 horror hit The Boogeyman. The film, from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, hits theaters nationwide today in North America, and the album is available everywhere digital music is sold and streamed. Additionally, the album is now available to preorder on vinyl by Waxwork Records.
“Composing the score for Other Mommy was a dream,” Jonsson writes. “It gave so much opportunity to explore and to embark on sonic and musical worldbuilding. The idea I latched onto immediately was this notion of the character of Other Mommy having something that’s not quite right about her. A feeling that something’s off. This is what I wanted the score to embody — a dissonance, like there’s always something twisted hiding under the surface. That uncanny-valley tension, the recognizable rendered strange. This all became the creative compass for everything that followed.
“I wanted to explore how we could create sounds that felt like they were both organic and synthesized at the same time,” Jonsson says. “This pursuit led me to an incredible (and unusual) instrument called the daxophone. There are very few instrument makers in the world who still make this instrument and I was fortunate enough to stumble upon John Jansen, who built me a bespoke one and made me a number of ‘tongues’ for it. It has this uncanny ability to sound like a human voice but yet not at the same time. It’s something almost impossible to describe; you just have to hear it. In fact, vocal exploration became central to the score’s identity in general. I called upon the help of extraordinary singers Erin Birgy and Sally Stanning, and together we explored unusual approaches to capturing and articulating the voice: microphone experimentations, singing into drums and resonating chambers, manipulating projection and resonance to produce haunting, otherworldly textures. The work was extensive both at the point of capture and in post-processing. Beyond that we also recorded a 22-piece string orchestra in Berlin, where experimentation sessions explored unconventional orchestrations and performance techniques that brought all kinds of twisted and unstable colors to the score. It was all just a joyous playground of possibilities.
“This was among the most rewarding scoring experiences of my career,” Jonsson says. “I hope the work resonates with people and that its strangeness feels, in the end, like it comes from a place of deep curiosity and that it transports people back to the unique world of the film.”
ABOUT PATRICK JONSSON
London-based composer Patrick Jonsson recently completed the score to Charlotte Regan’s BBC Series Mint, along with the ITVX two-part thriller Out There, and Netflix documentaries A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough and The Lost Children. Prior to this, Patrick wrote the HMMA-nominated score to the 20th Century Studios feature film The Boogeyman, based on the novel by Stephen King and directed by Rob Savage, and he scored the BBC Film Sundance Prize-winner and BIFA-nominated Scrapper, written and directed by Charlotte Regan.
In 2015, Patrick scored Dog Days, a Chinese drama by American director Jordan Schiele which was developed as part of the Cannes Cinefondation Residence and premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2016 in the Panorama lineup. He also scored Moon Shot, a web series about the Google Lunar XPrize, produced by JJ Abrams/ Bad Robot, and composed for the BBC Three five-part series, Five by Five directed by Kate Herron and starring Idris Elba. In 2018, Patrick wrote additional music with Rupert Gregson-Williams for TNT’s hit series The Alienist starring Daniel Bruhl and Dakota Fanning.
Patrick scored the 2017 Academy Award®-winning documentary short The White Helmets, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Music. He worked again with director Orlando von Einsiedel composing the score for Evelyn, winner of the British Independent Film Award 2018 for Best Documentary, for which Patrick’s score was picked out as one of “The Best Scores of 2018” by Film School Rejects. Patrick and Orlando collaborated in 2014 for the Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated feature documentary Virunga, executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.
He has twice collaborated with director Alexandria Bombach – first on Frame by Frame (co-directed by Mo Scarpelli) and again with On Her Shoulders, following Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad. Patrick received a nomination for “Best Documentary Score” for both films at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. In 2018, Patrick co-composed music for the BBC2/Netflix series Black Earth Rising with Martin Phipps, an 8-part series starring Michaela Coel and John Goodman, they collaborated again in 2021 to score Amazon sci-fi anthology series Solos. Most recently, Patrick composed the original score for Tigre Gente, Elizabeth Unger’s documentary that premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
As a solo artist, Patrick released his debut album Suddenly We Looked Like Giants in 2018 to much acclaim. The album was picked out as one of the best albums of 2018 by Headphone Commute, alongside Olafur Arnalds, Johann Johansson and Max Richter. Tracks from the album were on BBC Radio, and Patrick was additionally featured on Spitfire Audio’s “Ones to Watch” series.
Alongside his own composition work, Patrick has assisted composers on several major feature films including Thor, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Brave.
http://www.patrickjonsson.com
ABOUT OTHER MOMMY
Can I go inside your heart?
From James Wan, one of the most influential architects of modern horror behind the Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring franchises—and Rob Savage, the director of bold genre films Host and The Boogeyman, comes a terrifying trip into the darkening world of a young girl, Bela, who forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home who looks uncannily like her own mother.
Academy Award® winner Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) stars in a dual role as Bela’s mother and as “Other Mommy,” a manifestation of the entity. Jay Duplass (Transparent, Industry) plays Daddo, Bela’s father, and Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle) plays Bela.
The impressive supporting cast includes Actor Award nominee Dichen Lachman (Severance), Emmy and Tony Award nominee Arian Moayed (Succession) and screen legend Karen Allen (Indiana Jones films).
From Blumhouse Atomic Monster, Other Mommy is directed by Rob Savage from a screenplay by WGA award winner Nathan Elston, writer for the Emmy-winning sensation Succession, based on the New York Times bestselling novel Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (Bird Box).
The film is produced by James Wan, p.g.a., and is executive produced by Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Rob Savage, Josh Malerman and Ryan Lewis.
Get Tickets Here: https://www.universalpictures.com/movies/other-mommy/
Get the Soundtrack Here: https://backlotmusic.ffm.to/othermommy
TRACK-LISTING:
- 1. WTF
2. Boats
3. Vulchy!
4. Other Mommy
5. Can I Go Into Your Heart?
6. Shhh
7. That’s Too Many Fingers
8. They Don’t Care Like I Do
9. Sparkly Case
10. I Want Uncle Frank To Go Away
11. Red Eyes
12. Tunnels
13. Ballpit
14. She Wishes You Never Existed
15. Exactly Where I’m Supposed To Be
16. The Experts Arrive
17. Seance
18. Shelter
19. We Left The Lights On
20. Weapons
21. Barricade
22. Origin
23. Just A Hug Bela
24. You’re Broken
25. Other Mommy Reprise
26. End Credits
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