# Michael Wandmacher

Michael Wandmacher (born October 29, 1967) is an American composer of music for film, television, and video games. He has worked on numerous well-known projects, including Piranha 3D, Punisher: War Zone, Bloodborne, Twisted Metal, and The Goldbergs. Most recently, he has worked on Underworld: Blood Wars, succeeding previous series composers Paul Haslinger and Marco Beltrami.

## Life and career

Wandmacher was born in Minneapolis. He began his career composing music for local news media and television commercials before scoring short and feature films by local filmmakers. While following a series of email exchanges that started via a film music newsgroup, Wandmacher met Alan Silvestri and was invited to Los Angeles to participate in several scoring sessions. They composed music for the English-language releases of several Jackie Chan films including Armour of God and Drunken Master II. He eventually found success with the black comedy horror film Modern Vampires. Wandmacher co-composed the score with Danny Elfman, the brother of the film's director Richard Elfman. Wandmacher permanently relocated to Los Angeles.
The majority of Wandmacher's work consists of genre films particularly horror and thriller films. In 2015, Wandmacher composed the score to the role-playing video game Bloodborne.
Wandmacher also creates remixes under the pseudonym "Khursor". As such, he has worked with Godhead including a track on The Shadow Realigned album. The Khursor remix of Sting's Every Breath You Take was featured on the trailer for the third season of The Americans.

## Works
### Theatrical films

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1986 | Armour of God | Jackie ChanEric Tsang | International release |
| 1992 | Twin Dragons | Ringo LamTsui Hark | International release |
| 1993 | Supercop 2 | Stanley Tong | International release |
| 1994 | Drunken Master II | Lau Kar-leung | International release |
| 1996 | Street Gun | Travis Milloy | — |
| 1998 | Modern Vampires | Richard Elfman | — |
| 1998 | With or Without You | Wendell Jon Andersson | — |
| 1999 | Freestyle: The Victories of Dan Gable | Kevin Kelley | — |
| 2000 | Farewell, My Love | Randall Fontana | — |
| 2001 | The Accidental Spy | Teddy Chan | International release |
| 2001 | Max Keeble's Big Move | Tim Hill | — |
| 2001 | On the Borderline | Michael Oblowitz | — |
| 2003 | From Justin to Kelly | Robert Iscove | Composed with Greg Siff |
| 2005 | Cry Wolf | Jeff Wadlow | — |
| 2007 | The Killing Floor | Gideon Raff | — |
| 2007 | Man of Two Havanas | Vivien Lesnik Weisman | — |
| 2008 | Never Back Down | Jeff Wadlow | — |
| 2008 | Train | Gideon Raff | — |
| 2008 | Punisher: War Zone | Lexi Alexander | — |
| 2009 | My Bloody Valentine 3D | Patrick Lussier | — |
| 2010 | Freakonomics | Various | — |
| 2010 | Piranha 3D | Alexandre Aja | — |
| 2011 | Drive Angry | Patrick Lussier | — |
| 2012 | Werewolf: The Beast Among Us | Louis Morneau | — |
| 2013 | The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia | Tom Elkins | — |
| 2013 | The Last Exorcism Part II | Ed Gass-Donnelly | — |
| 2014 | 13 Sins | Daniel Stamm | — |
| 2016 | Underworld: Blood Wars | Anna Foerster | — |
| 2017 | Voice from the Stone | Eric Dennis Howell | — |
| 2017 | A Symphony of Hope | Brian Weidling | — |
| 2018 | Patient Zero | Stefan Ruzowitzky | — |
| 2019 | Trick | Patrick Lussier | — |

### Television films

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 2004 | Crimes of Fashion | Stuart Gillard | — |
| 2009 | Ben 10: Alien Swarm | Alex Winter | — |

### Television series

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1997 | Tokyo Pig | US version |
| 2002 | She Spies | — |
| 2005–2006 | Night Stalker | 10 episodes |
| 2006 | South Beach | 9 episodes |
| 2011–2012 | Breaking In | 19 episodes |
| 2013–2023 | The Goldbergs | 163 episodes |
| 2017 | Imaginary Mary | 5 episodes |
| 2018 | Into the Dark | Episode: "Flesh & Blood" |
| 2019–2020 | Schooled | 34 episodes |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2005 | Madagascar | — |
| 2006 | Over the Hedge | — |
| 2008 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | — |
| 2010 | Singularity | Composed with Charlie Clouser |
| 2012 | Twisted Metal | — |
| 2015 | Bloodborne | Composed with Ryan Amon, Tsukasa Saitoh, Yuka Kitamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki and Cris Velasco |