Emmy-nominated composer Holly Amber Church has been lovingly nicknamed the "Scream Queen of Scoring," although her work in film and TV has covered many genres. Her 2023 Emmy nomination came from the Main Title theme music for GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES on Netflix. She has written the score for the upcoming drama MIRANDA'S VICTIM starring Abigail Breslin, Donald Sutherland, Andy Garcia, Luke Wilson and Ryan Phillippe. Other recent releases of films scored by Holly include ELI ROTH'S BE MINE: A VR VALENTINE'S SLASHER, OPEN 24 HOURS, DARK LIGHT, and THE RUNNER. She has signed on to score the documentary about Donn Beach, THE DONN OF TIKI. In addition to an Emmy nomination, Holly's Main Title theme for GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES was also nominated for a 2023 ASCAP Composer's Choice Award for Television Theme of the Year. Holly won two best score awards in 2021 for her score for A BAND TO HONOR and won the award for Best Original Score at the 2020 Women in Horror Film Festival for her score for FELLOWSHIP. She's a member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers and an alumni of USC's Screen Scoring program, the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop and the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive. With several films released in the past few years and several upcoming projects she's attached to, Holly has proven she is a reliable, inventive, hard-working and creative collaborator. Besides her love for film scoring, Holly also loves anything to do with tiki, monsters and ghosts!
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Biography from IMDb.
- Composer
- 25 on MovieCove · 34 credits in all
What are Holly Amber Church's films like?
Across their 23 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 22
A split, not a type: Light 3 · Serious 9 · Dark 11
Grounded 16 · Stylized 7 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 5 · Charged 8 · Intense 10
Steady 7 · Shifting 16 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 16 · Some laughs 6 · Funny 1
A split, not a type: Slow burn 11 · Even-paced 10 · Relentless 2
A split, not a type: Casual 11 · Engaged 10 · Full focus 2
Easy watch 8 · Affecting 9 · Heavy 6
Resolved 13 · Open-ended 8 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet7
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous14
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Holly Amber Church's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 19 of their 25 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (14).
- Miranda's Victim (2023) · composer · free
- Finding Christmas (2024) · composer · free
- Open 24 Hours (2018) · composer · free
- Dark Light (2019) · composer · free
- Muse (2015) · composer · free
- The Other (2025) · composer · free
- Daddy's Girl (2018) · composer · free
- The Runner (2021) · composer · free
- The 6th Friend (2016) · composer · free
- The Sinners (2020) · composer · free
- The Unsettling (2022) · composer · free
- Bad Impulse (2019) · composer · free
- +2 more
- Open 24 Hours (2018) · composer
- Dark Light (2019) · composer
- Muse (2015) · composer
- The Other (2025) · composer
- The Runner (2021) · composer
- The Sinners (2020) · composer
- The Unsettling (2022) · composer
- Bad Impulse (2019) · composer
- Dolls (2019) · composer
- The Toybox (2018) · composer
- Strange Blood (2015) · composer
Subscription and free streaming for Holly Amber Church's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
34 credits, 25 with a MovieCove page.
Gator Face(2026)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
The Other(2025)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
Womb(2025)
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all films
The Italians(2025)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
The Donn of Tiki(2024)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Finding Christmas(2024)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Miranda's Victim(2023)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Fire Island(2023)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all shows
A Walk in the Park (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
The Runner(2021)
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all films
The Unsettling(2022)
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films
Cameo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
The Sinners(2020)
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films
Bad Impulse(2019)
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all films
Dark Light(2019)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Shevenge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Dolls(2019)
Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all films
Mollywood (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Daddy's Girl(2018)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
The Toybox(2018)
Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all films
Open 24 Hours(2018)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Ruin Me(2017)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
ClownTown (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
The 6th Friend(2016)
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films
The Devil's Dolls(2016)
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films
Muse(2015)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
Strange Blood(2015)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Nomad: The Beginning(2013)
Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all films
Alien Battlefield (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Rites of Spring(2011)
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films
Bill the Intern (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Butterfly in the Typewriter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Three Ninety Five (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 30 titles, 28 of them dated from 2003 to 2026.
Biggest box office
The Devil's Dolls (2016)
Highest rated
Miranda's Victim (2023)
Most popular right now
The Other (2025)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2023, Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Holly Amber Church's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 9th percentile, the median of all 24; across their 23 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 14th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th20
Shape of the crowd
16 of their 25 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Panned4
- Divisive2
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Broadly Agreed2
- Mixed16
Reviewers score the sound and music 48/100 in their films, across 14 reviewed titles; fans 66, detractors 35. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Holly Amber Church's work okay for kids?
Across up to 6 MovieCove titles with content scores, 1 of the 3 categories sits near the median of all films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Holly Amber Church work with?
People who share at least 2 of Holly Amber Church's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Ed Marx shares the most, 6.
Directors
- Padraig ReynoldsShared titles: Gator Face (2026), Dark Light (2019), Open 24 Hours (2018), The Devil's Dolls (2016), Rites of Spring (2011)See all 5 shared titles with Padraig Reynolds
- Michelle DannerShared titles: The Italians (2025), Miranda's Victim (2023), Bad Impulse (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Michelle Danner
- Bridget SmithShared titles: Womb (2025), Finding Christmas (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Bridget Smith
Writers
- Mike WalshShared titles: Womb (2025), Finding Christmas (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Mike Walsh
- Jeff MillerShared titles: Dolls (2019), The Toybox (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Jeff Miller
Actors
- Myles ClohessyShared titles: Womb (2025), Finding Christmas (2024), Fire Island (2023)See all 3 shared titles with Myles Clohessy
- Abigail BreslinShared titles: The Italians (2025), Miranda's Victim (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Abigail Breslin
- Brian Anthony WilsonShared titles: Womb (2025), Finding Christmas (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Brian Anthony Wilson
- Robert ClohessyShared titles: Finding Christmas (2024), Fire Island (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Robert Clohessy
Cinematographers and editors
- Ed MarxShared titles: Gator Face (2026), Dark Light (2019), Daddy's Girl (2018), Open 24 Hours (2018), The Devil's Dolls (2016), Rites of Spring (2011)See all 6 shared titles with Ed Marx
- Teferi DejeneShared titles: The Italians (2025), Miranda's Victim (2023), Bad Impulse (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Teferi Dejene
- Douglas E. BischoffShared titles: Womb (2025), Finding Christmas (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Douglas E. Bischoff
- David MatthewsShared titles: Dark Light (2019), Open 24 Hours (2018)See all 2 shared titles with David Matthews
Producers
- Alexandra GuarnieriShared titles: The Italians (2025), Miranda's Victim (2023), Bad Impulse (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Alexandra Guarnieri
- Brian DrillingerShared titles: The Italians (2025), Miranda's Victim (2023), Bad Impulse (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Brian Drillinger
- Josephine HiesShared titles: The Italians (2025), Miranda's Victim (2023), Bad Impulse (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Josephine Hies
- Valerie DeblerShared titles: The Italians (2025), Miranda's Victim (2023), Bad Impulse (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Valerie Debler