Douglas Pipes

Douglas Pipes is an American film score composer whose feature films include the Academy Award-nominated Monster House, the horror film Trick 'r Treat, and the Christmas comedy-horror film Krampus.

Influences

Pipes stated composers like Alan Menken, James Newton Howard, Michael Giacchino, Christophe Beck, Alan Silvestri, James Horner, Mychael Danna, Henry Mancini, Randy Newman, John Debney, Bruce Broughton, Buddy Baker, George Bruns, David Newman, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Shaiman, Rachel Portman, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Kevin Kiner, Rolfe Kent, Bill Conti, Lalo Schifrin, Dave Grusin, Howard Ashman, Franz Waxman, Alex North, Victor Young, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Gustav Holst, Alfred Newman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, J.A.C. Redford and Joel McNeely as influences.