(Feature Film / True Crime Drama / 2026)
A true crime drama film about the real-life story of Richard Ramirez - The Night Stalker. this movie focuses on his many, many crimes that would lead some to end in raping woman, killing husbands while also stealing from the victims in the process.
Film Produced by:
Crappy World Films and Ave One Entertainment
Director:
Chad Ferrin
Principal Composer:
Richard Band
Additional Music By:
Matthew C. Hightshoe
NOTE:
All projects prior to 2025 I was credited as Matthew C. Hightshoe
or my indie artist name “D4Disgruntled” .
All future works will be credited as Mateo Hightshoe.
Due to the short post production timeline, Richard and I leaned heavily into the temp score used. we did not copy the score but definitely used it as a soundscape guide for style, intrumentation and dramatic approach. While it shifte between modern day sound design scores and 80s synthwave, the one unusual temp score selection was Jerry Goldmith's "Magic" score, namely the Kill the Postman cues and other similar subtle tremolo string heavy cues.
My work focused more on a soud design and some tonal (synthwave-esque) cues. I have no idea what Richard did as we worked separately on different cues. He assigned me a set of scenes to focus on under his direction and I went off to do them. I never get to hear what he does until the film is released, lol. In fact, much of mu work tends to get reused and re-edited in other scenes and at times gets incorporated into music Richard creates for a scene.
