Milan Records releases the Pretty Lethal 
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, available everywhere now, composed by BAFTA Award-winning, Emmy and Ivor Novello–nominated composer Paul Leonard-Morgan. Recorded in Glasgow with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra alongside a rock band and solo violin, the score fuses rich orchestral textures with pulsating synths and unconventional sounds, including bendy saw, whistles, and detuned violin, crafting a sonic world that is at once thrilling and unpredictable. Leonard-Morgan describes it as a collision of “orchestra, rock band, and cyberpunk electronics.” The music draws listeners into the film’s setting, carrying tension, momentum, and character-driven motifs throughout. A standout cue, “One Last Dance,” mirrors Uma Thurman’s Devora, turning each choreographed movement into part of the score, while themes for the central women evolve and reach a striking culmination. PRETTY LETHAL is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.
PAUL LEONARD-MORGAN notes, “When you get a call asking your take on a Ballerina Slasher movie, you reply with ‘I see this as Orchestra meets Punk Band meets Cyberpunk electronica’ and they welcome you with open arms, you know it’s going to be a fun ride!
3 years ago I wrote my album of Etudes for Piano and Cello, little knowing it would lead to scoring this epic movie. Tired and needing to be refreshed, I took a month off to write my album. Then dancers from around the world started randomly choreographing it. Then I get a call asking me to score this movie, and “had I ever worked with dance before”. It was literally a case of putting yourself out there in the universe and things will happen!
Director Vicky Jewson and myself shared the same vision for this film. Girl power, punk attitude meets the beauty of ballet. These aren’t your usual fight sequences. Blades on ballet shoes, pirouettes to escape the attacks, every beat carefully scored so that the fight sequences go from hard core EDM one moment to classical orchestra the next. Tchaikovsky on steroids! And then to finish up with I got to score an entire 2 minute ballet sequence – it’s a composer’s dream job.
We’ve included my remixes of Rhythm Is A Dancer that they used in the film as a special treat.”
PRETTY LETHAL (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
TRACKLISTING –
- Rhythm Is A Dancer (PLM Pretty Lethal Remix)
- The Castle
- Next Time I Take Your Tongue
- Bullet To The Head
- Enough Madness
- Noone Is Coming
- The Dentist
- We Have To Get Out Of Here
- The Doktor
- Ballet Blades & Blood
- Stairs Go Up Stairs Go Down
- Look Who’s Back
- Kitchen Shootout
- Escape
- I Crave His Audience
- One Last Dance
- Balletfuckingrina
- We Need To Get Back Inside
- Devora Showdown
- Motorbikes & Ballerinas
- The Dance
- Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
- Rhythm Is A Dancer (PLM Remix)
ABOUT PRETTY LETHAL
An action-packed thriller where five ballerinas, on their way to a prestigious dance competition, are barely on speaking terms when their bus breaks down in a remote forest. With no other options, they reluctantly seek shelter at an unsettling roadside inn run by Devora Kasimer (Uma Thurman), a reclusive former ballet prodigy. From the moment they arrive, something feels wrong—and their worst instincts prove right. As the situation turns deadly, the fractured team must set aside rivalries and weaponize years of brutal training, turning grace, discipline, and even pointe shoes into tools for survival.
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ABOUT PAUL LEONARD-MORGAN
Paul Leonard-Morgan is a BAFTA award-winning, Emmy and Ivor Novello-nominated composer and producer known for his distinctive cinematic style that fuses orchestral writing with electronica. In demand across film, television, and games, he has scored major features including Dredd, Limitless, Boston Strangler, Last Breath, and Pretty Lethal and Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, as well as acclaimed documentaries and series such as Fellow Travelers, The Hunt for Planet B, Lucy, the Human Chimp, Chaos: The Manson Murders, and Bodkin.
A longtime collaborator of director Errol Morris, his work together includes Wormwood, The B-Side, and My Psychedelic Love Story. Leonard-Morgan has also partnered with Philip Glass on Tales from the Loop, The Green Veil, and The Pigeon Tunnel, earning multiple Critics’ Choice, Cinema Eye, and HMMA nominations. His video game scores include Battlefield Hardline, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III, Cyberpunk 2077, and Call of Duty: Mobile.
Earlier in his career, he worked with artists such as No Doubt, Snow Patrol, and Belle and Sebastian before moving into screen scoring. Beyond film and television, his work spans concert composition and recording projects, including a concerto for the Orchestre National de Bretagne and a recent collaborative album with Scottish poet Len Pennie, reflecting the breadth and versatility of his musical voice.
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