Christian’s score for Devil’s Double has been nominated as one of the top film scores of 2011 in Film Music Magazine, along side the likes of John Williams, Alexandre Desplat, Cliff Martinez, Thomas Newman and Patrick Doyle.

It was accompanied by these kind words:

“African and Middle Eastern movie music was hardly rocking in that trip-hop sort of way before Hans Zimmer turned a catastrophic Mogadishu military failure into a jam session with “Black Hawk Down,” setting the same furious ethnic beat for just about every similarly-themed score that followed. But leave it to Christian Henson to give it a new, darkly invigorating spin for “The Devil’s Double” as he takes desert rhythms out for a sex and drug dance in the westernized hell club of Uday Hussein. It’s a vibe at once fearsome and invigorating, tantalizing Uday’s hapless look-a-like with the sinister, sensual grooves of a dictator’s sociopathic son. Yet the serpentine sounds of Arabic winds and drums are always there with the percussive force of conscience, reminding the film’s hero of the cost of a despicable good life in the midst of his country’s agony. Henson’s mesmerizing mix of trance grooves, harsh beats and ironic strings capture this moral quandary in the heart of darkness to powerful, captivating effect for one of history’s most unusual hostages.”

To see the full article go HERE.

Having provided Jon Wright (director) with a couple of impossible bespoke source commissions for his debut  horror “Tormented” (namely the source track “My Mum Raped Me And I Liked It”) Christian was honoured and delighted to be commissioned for Jon’s second outing “Grabbers” in which the population of a small island off the coast of Ireland discover that the only way to survive after the invasion of bloodsucking aliens is to get drunk. Christian cites this show as a dream commission and brief. “This is no horror, nor thriller, but a monster movie and makes you feel like you did when I first went to the movies in 1976 and tried to cop a feel off a date in 1986″ CH’s challenge is to recreate the great scores of Goldsmith, Williams, Herrmann, and Elfman but with a 21st century and dare we say it “Hensony” feel.

Christian is pleased to announce a rare appearance as composer for an exciting new TV comedy series “Fresh Meat”. Having read scripts to the first 3 episodes Christian was desperate to be involved having not taken such a commission since the astronomical UK cult success that accompanied “Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps” and his instantly memorable “…and a pack of flakies” [sic] theme tune.

TRIVIA NOTE:  On the original demo version of Two Pints of Lager… Christian sings the theme in a drunken cockney accent. Program makers mixed up the master (Resung in a Runcorn accent by Steve Lee) and original demo versions of the titles track for series 2, which was aired and released to DVD with Christian’s rather ropey vocal rendition.

The directorial debut of British actor Dexter Fletcher stars Charlie Creed-Miles as “Wild” Bill Hayward. On parole after 8 years inside, Bill returns home to find his two sons (Jimmy, 11 and Dean, 15) abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Reluctantly agreeing to stay for a week to fool social services that the boys are being cared for, he quickly connects with Jimmy and through this new bond starts to realise what he’s been missing.

Christian was commissioned by Dexter to write a very minimal modern score for this show and is massively honoured to be involved in such a seminal debut and looks forward to working with this truly scintillating UK director in the future.

A film by exciting new British directing talent Zam Salim, “Up There” follows the recently deceased Martin (1966-2003) as he struggles to get his head around the afterlife.

Recorded at Air-Edel by Nick Taylor with a band fixed by Hilary Skewes, “Up There” features the talents of John Paricelli and Leo Abrahams on guitars, mixed by Goetz Botzenhardt at Soho Sound Kitchen.

For more information about the film go to the official website: www.uptherethemovie.com