---
name: "Mark Korven"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-korven"
fi1m_id: "mark-korven"
imdb_id: "nm0466805"
tmdb_id: 5907
wikidata_id: "Q3294137"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-22T01:56:08.989957+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."
---

# Mark Korven

## Identity

Mark Korven

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-korven
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-korven
- **IMDb ID:** nm0466805
- **TMDB ID:** 5907
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3294137
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Korven, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3294137, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0466805/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5907

Composer. Born 1 January 1953 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada
- **Active:** 1998–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 76 (1), 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 60 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 67 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Horror 2, Science Fiction 2, Thriller 2, Action 1, Drama 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $123m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Korven, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3294137, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0466805/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5907

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Lighthouse*](https://film.one/film/the-lighthouse.md) (82)
- **Pluto TV:** [*Cube*](https://film.one/film/cube.md) (76)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The First Omen*](https://film.one/film/the-first-omen.md) (72)
- **Disney+:** [*Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City*](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-welcome-to-raccoon-city.md) (47)

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## Biography

Mark Korven is a Canadian composer for film and television. He began his career as a singer-songwriter before scoring his first feature, Patricia Rozema’s *I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing* (1987). He is based in Toronto.

Korven composed the score for the cult science-fiction horror film *Cube* (1997). He is known for his work on horror films including Robert Eggers’s *The Witch* (2016) and *The Lighthouse* (2019), Scott Derrickson’s *The Black Phone* (2022), and Arkasha Stevenson’s *The First Omen* (2024). He co-developed the custom instrument The Apprehension Engine for creating unsettling sounds in horror scores.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, coremusicagency.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *The First Omen* (2024), Fi1m 72, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-first-omen.md)
- *Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City* (2021), Fi1m 47, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-welcome-to-raccoon-city.md)
- *The Lighthouse* (2019), Fi1m 82, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lighthouse.md)
- *Cube* (1998), Fi1m 76, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/cube.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Institute* (2025), series, Original Music Composer
- *Don't Move* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *The First Omen* (2024), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-first-omen.md)
- *Night Swim* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *The Peripheral* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Black Phone* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City* (2021), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-welcome-to-raccoon-city.md)
- *No One Gets Out Alive* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Morbus* (2020), Writer
- *The Lighthouse* (2019), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lighthouse.md)
- *In the Tall Grass* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Isabelle* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *The Swerve* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Our House* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Awakening the Zodiac* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Beyond Trauma* (2017), Music
- *All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *The Witch* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Cruel & Unusual* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *The Great Martian War 1913–1917* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Lemon* (2013), Producer, Writer, Director, Editor, Music
- *The Emperor's Lost Harbour* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Tiger Spirit* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *I, Nuligak: An Inuvialuit History of First Contact* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Hollywood Wives: The New Generation* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Saint Jude* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Falling Through* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *The Sheldon Kennedy Story* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman* (1999), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
- *Win, Again!* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *It Takes a Child* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Cube* (1998), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/cube.md)
- *Giant Mine* (1996), Music Arranger
- *Lyddie* (1996), Music
- *Joe's Wedding* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Power* (1996), Music
- *Curtis's Charm* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *The Michelle Apartments* (1996), Music
- *Henry & Verlin* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Lawn and Order* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *The Grocer's Wife* (1991), Music
- *Sam & Me* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *The Hand of Stalin* (1990), series, Original Music Composer
- *White Room* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Between Two Worlds* (1990), Music
- *I've Heard the Mermaids Singing* (1987), Original Music Composer

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