Lakeshore Records will release Vicious—Music from the Paramount+ Original Movie digitally on Friday, October 10, featuring music by composer Tom Schraeder (The Dark and the Wicked). Schraeder is regarded as an inventive and sought-after composer in the genre, known for weaving unsettling textures with emotional resonance. With this score, his second collaboration with Bertino, he deepened that approach. Scoring from Bertino’s script before shooting began, Schraeder developed themes that evolved alongside the film, scaling from an initial 64-piece orchestral concept to a more intimate score that mirrors Dakota Fanning’s character’s breath, endurance, and inner unraveling. 

The recording process was just as unorthodox. Schraeder collaborated with musicians like Clive Deamer (Radiohead, Portishead), and Stan Harrison (Radiohead, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen), encouraging them to “explore their instruments in unconventional ways” and invent sounds outside tradition—preparing pianos, bowing and submerging gongs underwater, and even building his own terrifying-sounding “Terror Box,” which became central to the score. Paramount gave him a rare office on the lot, where he worked alongside the edit team, weaving live recordings directly into the cut. 

Notes Schraeder: “Working on the score for Vicious didn’t feel like a composer and director collaboration. It’s more like we’re bandmates, with Bryan as frontman and me helping bring his vision to life.”

In Vicious:

Polly receives a mysterious box that comes with instructions to place three things inside: something you need, something you hate, and something you love. What begins as a strange ritual quickly unravels into a waking nightmare as she becomes trapped in a terrifying world where reality bends and memory betrays. As time slips away, she must confront the darkness not just around her, but within her, before it consumes everything and everyone she’s ever known.

You can preorder the Vicious—Music from the Paramount+ Original Movie here. Vicious comes exclusively to Paramount+ on Friday, October 10, 2025.

Track List

01. Spiral 

02. Polly’s Theme (Something You Love)

03. Come In

04. Polly’s Theme (Vocal Reprise)

05. Vicious Theme (Calling Mom)

06. The Box Theme 

07. You’re Going To Die

08. I’m Not Your Mother 

09. I Wanna Play (The Key)

10. Instructions

11. I Loved Them 

12. You and I

13. Box Reprise (It Should Have Been Me)

14. Hourglass (Something You Hate)

15. Something. I. Fear.

16. I’m Gonna Start Now

17. Go Away 

18. Hair Cut 

19. Vicious Theme

20. Humble Yourself

21. Nothing Left

22. What Happened Auntie P?

23. Wrong Answer

24. It Could Have Been Anyone

25. Vicious Theme (Something You Need) 

26. What Do You Fear?

27. Tara’s Theme (Something You Want) 

28. The Box Theme (It Wants You)

29. Closet

30. Tara’s Theme (She Lies)

31. Polly’s Theme (A Lot to Offer)

32. Logo

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