A Haunting in Venice

A Haunting in Venice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir for the 2023 film A Haunting in Venice by Kenneth Branagh. It was released by Hollywood Records on September 15, 2023. Background At CinemaCon in April 2023, director Kenneth Branagh announced that composer Hildur Guðnadóttir would be scoring A Haunting in Venice, marking Hildur's first collaboration with Branagh. Hildur replaced Branagh's longtime collaborator Patrick Doyle, who had scored the film's two prequels, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. Production Hildur grew up reading Agatha Christie novels, and already had a "strong idea" about how she felt the genre would sound before she signed on to score the film. As the film takes place during a séance at a Halloween party, Branagh wanted his score to feel "darker and almost horror"-like. The score heavily features strings and woodwinds, as Hildur wanted it to feel like an "organic and classical" chamber piece.