[4] The film was the first of Cameron and Horner's three collaborations, though they were already acquaintances from their time at Roger Corman's New World Studios in the early 80s, where both men had started their careers.

Brad Fiedel's synth-inspired tracks for The Terminator had allowed changes to be made quickly based on feedback, but Cameron had no experience managing orchestral music.

[12] The score features some of Horner's most complex and modernistic writing, making widespread use of dissonance, aleatoric and extended orchestral techniques and sound design.

Horner also used tape delays to create "echoes" on some separately-recorded orchestral parts, a technique Jerry Goldsmith had used in the original Alien score.

Some of those trailers include Misery (1990), Alien 3 (1992), Timecop (1994), From Dusk Til Dawn (1996), Broken Arrow (1996), Dante's Peak (1997), Lake Placid (1999), Minority Report (2002), and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (2005).