--- name: "Charlie Clouser" canonical: "https://film.one/person/charlie-clouser" fi1m_id: "charlie-clouser" imdb_id: "nm0167197" tmdb_id: 2148 wikidata_id: "Q537386" roles: ["Composer"] born: "28 June 1963" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 68 average_over: 2 updated: "2026-10-05T14:21:19.402776+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Charlie Clouser ## Identity Charlie Clouser - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charlie-clouser - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** charlie-clouser - **IMDb ID:** nm0167197 - **TMDB ID:** 2148 - **Wikidata ID:** Q537386 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Clouser, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537386, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167197/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2148 Composer. Born 28 June 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Composer - **Born:** 28 June 1963, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA - **Active:** 2018–present - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 72 (1), 2020s 64 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Clouser, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537386, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167197/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2148 ## Biography Charlie Clouser is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer. He studied electronic music at Hampshire College, graduating in 1985, and worked as a programmer and remixer for artists including Prong, White Zombie and Marilyn Manson before joining Nine Inch Nails in 1994. Clouser has composed the score for every film in the Saw franchise, including Saw X (2023). His work on the series features industrial electronics combined with orchestral elements, and the recurring theme 'Hello Zepp' has become a signature of the films. He has also scored films such as Dead Silence (2007) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), and composed the theme for the television series American Horror Story. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Saw X* (2023), Fi1m 64, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/saw-x.md) - *Aquaman* (2018), Fi1m 72, Music Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/aquaman.md) ## Complete filmography (30) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *SPIN: From the book of TWIST (A SAW parody)* (2024), Music Arranger - *Saw X* (2023), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/saw-x.md) - *Unhuman* (2022), Music - *Spiral: From the Book of Saw* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Eye Without a Face* (2021), Music - *Aquaman* (2018), Music Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/aquaman.md) - *Jigsaw* (2017), Original Music Composer - *The Neighbor* (2016), Original Music Composer - *Childhood's End* (2015), series, Original Music Composer - *Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw* (2015), Music, Thanks - *The Collection* (2012), Original Music Composer - *American Horror Story* (2011), series, Main Title Theme Composer - *Saw 3D* (2010), Original Music Composer - *Saw VI* (2009), Original Music Composer - *The Stepfather* (2009), Original Music Composer - *Saw V* (2008), Original Music Composer - *Saw IV* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Resident Evil: Extinction* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Death Sentence* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Dead Silence* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Saw III* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Saw II* (2005), Original Music Composer - *Deepwater* (2005), Original Music Composer - *Numb3rs* (2005), series, Original Music Composer - *Saw* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Fastlane* (2002), series, Original Music Composer - *Nine Inch Nails: And All That Could Have Been* (2002), as Synthesizer, theremin, vocoder, vocals - *Nine Inch Nails: Fragility 1.0* (1999), Actor - *Nine Inch Nails & David Bowie: Dissonance* (1995), Actor - *Nine Inch Nails: Further Down The Spiral Tour* (1995), Actor ## Gallery - ![Charlie Clouser speaking at the 2017 WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.](https://film.one/media/person/15796/gallery-293e4c0bb72b.jpg) Charlie Clouser speaking at the 2017 WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Charlie_Clouser_%2833804509126%29.jpg/1280px-Charlie_Clouser_%2833804509126%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Charlie Clouser](https://film.one/media/person/15796/gallery-5ce783b3399f.jpg) Charlie Clouser — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Charlie_Clouser_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Charlie_Clouser_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jeff Russo, Mac Quayle, Siddhartha Khosla, Charlie Clouser, Alec Puro and Jeff Cardoni speaking at the 2017 WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anahei](https://film.one/media/person/15796/gallery-04d2a8427ddf.jpg) Jeff Russo, Mac Quayle, Siddhartha Khosla, Charlie Clouser, Alec Puro and Jeff Cardoni speaking at the 2017 WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anahei — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Jeff_Russo%2C_Mac_Quayle%2C_Siddhartha_Khosla%2C_Charlie_Clouser%2C_Alec_Puro_%26_Jeff_Cardoni_%2833716294441%29.jpg/1280px-Jeff_Russo%2C_Mac_Quayle%2C_Siddhartha_Khosla%2C_Charlie_Clouser%2C_Alec_Puro_%26_Jeff_Cardoni_%2833716294441%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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