Invited by general director Pedro Morelli, Matheus Leston composed the score for all the episodes and the opening theme for Contos do Edgar, which adapted Edgar Allan Poe’s texts for a Brazilian audience.

For this project, different directors were invited for each episode, so the challenge for the score was creating a universe that connected all the different stories while keeping with their particularities.

The central question Morelli proposed was: how do we create a typical horror movie score that sounds Brazilian? At the center of the score, then, we employed Brazilian instruments like the viola, pandeiro (a sort of tambourine), agogô and accordion, which gradually build and create the film’s tension.

For the opening theme, the challenge was different: how do we create a song that is simultaneously tense and Brazilian, like the compositions of Arrigo Barnabé or Tom Zé, but also goofy and fun like the Inspector Gadget theme?