wrote and directed the 2006 straight-to-video low-budget slasher film (also known as ), while served as producer. For its 2008 sequel, , again wrote the script, but he and switched director and producer duties. In both cases, however, , most of whose credits come from cable television (e.g., the 21st century version of ), provided the music. In his liner notes, helpfully reveals that "The sound I was going for was ' Trapped in Hell.' I don't know if that's where I ended up," he adds, "but it was my starting point." Well, sort of. takes the film's Southern rural setting as a guide to coming up with music that often combines elements of classic rock, Southern style, with traditional country. The traditional country often seems to be played on instruments that the country musicians haven't bothered to tune lately, and that's deliberate, giving the music both a raucous and a bizarrely eerie feel appropriate to the theme of horror. The classic rock sections are less suggestive of than of and the of the early '70s, when he was palling around with members of 's backup group prior to forming . And then there is the song performed by , a demented country gospel satire. The second half of the soundtrack, from the seventh track, to the 14th, is more conventional horror movie scoring, full of ominous tones followed by furious action accompaniment. The last six tracks on the album actually are taken from the soundtrack to the first movie, making this a compendium of the music has provided so far to what must now be considered a movie series. ~ William Ruhlmann