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Michael Neilson

Michael Neilson

Composer

Michael Neilson is an award winning film and television composer, who lives and works in Vancouver Canada. He is most known for his television work with Syfy channel, scoring over 20 films for the network, including classics such as "Stonehenge Apocalypse", "Snowmageddon", "Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse" and "Earths Final Hours". Michael has collaborated with many Canadian independent film makers as well, like Mark Lewis ("The Thaw", "Ill Fated"), Jason C Bourque ( "Black Fly" "Drone" ) and Dave Schultz and legendary Canadian producer Don Carmody ( Resident Evil, Chicago ) on "45 RPM". Michael presently is a board member of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada (SCGC)

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Works as
Composer
Titles
69 on MovieCove · 84 credits in all
Links
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Known for

TMDB popularity, last 63 days to Oct 26Up 4% in 30 days

What are Michael Neilson's films like?

Across their 68 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Survival.

Genres

Action17 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 5th percentile
: browse their Action movies
Thriller14 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 22nd percentile
: browse their Thriller movies
Comedy10 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 51st percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Comedy movies
Drama10 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 30th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies
Crime5 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 24th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Crime movies
Romance4 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 48th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Romance movies
Horror3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 14th percentile
: browse their Horror movies
Adventure2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 10th percentile
: browse their Adventure movies
Sci-Fi2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 9th percentile
: browse their Sci-Fi movies

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

share of theme weight
Bonds
32%
Survival
23%
Morality
18%
Self
9%
Power
6%
Ideas
6%
Society
6%
Survival28 titles, browse their movies with this themeFamily bonds29 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love14 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice12 titles, browse their movies with this themeDeception12 titles, browse their movies with this themeSelf-worth6 titles, browse their movies with this themeCommunity7 titles, browse their movies with this themePower5 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 67 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 21 · Serious 36 · Dark 10

Grounded: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their grounded movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 58 · Stylized 9 · Heightened 0

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 16 · Charged 37 · Intense 14

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

A split, not a type: Steady 28 · Shifting 39 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 49 · Some laughs 16 · Funny 2

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 23 · Even-paced 38 · Relentless 6

Casual: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their casual movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 42 · Engaged 23 · Full focus 2

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 56 · Open-ended 9 · Ambiguous 2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
52
Dread
24
Warm
15
Hopeful
15
Romantic
13
Other
57

How their films linger

Feel-good26 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun24 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful25 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling22 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet10 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteCathartic7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 13 with a twist

  • Happy37
  • Bittersweet23
  • Ambiguous8

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 Michael Neilson's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 54 of their 69 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (31).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Michael Neilson'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

84 credits, 69 with a MovieCove page.

  • Blue Skies(2026)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all shows

  • Double Double Trouble(2026)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films

  • Girl Taken(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films

  • The Bear Lake Murders(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films

  • Before Your Father Finds Us(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films

  • The Boy Who Vanished(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films

  • The Face I Can't Forget(2024)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films

  • Curious Caterer: Forbidden Fruit(2024)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

  • Mommy's Stolen Memories (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Composer

  • Engaged to Be Murdered(2023)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films

  • Creating Christmas(2023)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films

  • Magic in Mistletoe(2023)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films

  • The Attraction Test(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films

  • B&B Merry(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films

  • Dying for a Crown(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films

  • Dying for a Family(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films

  • Dying for A Good Grade(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films

  • A Honeymoon to Remember(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films

  • Revenge Delivered(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films

  • A Dickens of a Holiday!(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films

  • Love on the Road(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • Playing Cupid(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films

  • Spotlight on Christmas(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • Cranberry Christmas(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films

  • Love on Harbor Island(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films

  • Love Is a Piece of Cake(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films

  • Baby Monitor Murders(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films

  • The Angel Tree(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films

  • My Wife's Secret Life(2019)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films

  • A Song for Christmas(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films

  • Global Meltdown(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films

  • Drone(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films

  • Devil in the Dark(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films

  • Manny Dearest(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films

  • Boy in the Attic(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films

  • Revenge Porn(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films

  • Pretty Little Addict (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Composer

  • Dying to Be Loved(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films

  • Love in the Vineyard(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films

  • Newlywed and Dead(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films

  • Pretty Little Dead Girl(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films

  • Undercover Wife(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films

  • Stolen Dreams (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Composer

  • They Found Hell(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films

  • Fatal Memories(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films

  • Christmas Icetastrophe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Composer

  • Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all films

  • Til Death Do Us Part(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films

  • Embrace of the Vampire(2013)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films

  • Independence Daysaster(2013)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all films

  • End of the World(2013)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films

  • The 12 Disasters of Christmas(2012)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all films

  • A Bride for Christmas(2012)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • Ghost Storm(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all films

  • The Philadelphia Experiment(2012)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films

  • Seattle Superstorm (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Composer

  • Super Storm(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films

  • Snowmageddon(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films

  • Doomsday Prophecy(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films

  • Collision Earth(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all films

  • Bringing Ashley Home (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Composer

  • Behemoth(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films

  • Earth's Final Hours(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all films

  • Seeds of Destruction(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films

  • Ice Quake(2010)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films

  • Born to Raise Hell(2010)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films

  • Stonehenge Apocalypse(2010)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films

  • Freshman Father (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

    Composer

  • Hard Ride to Hell(2010)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films

  • The Thaw(2009)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films

  • Malibu Shark Attack(2008)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all films

  • The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon(2008)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all films

  • Whispers and Lies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

    Composer

  • Taming Tammy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Composer

  • Devil's Diary(2007)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films

  • Shattered(2007)

    Sound

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films

  • Time and Again (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Composer

  • Her Sister's Keeper(2006)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films

  • The Secret of Hidden Lake (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    Composer

  • In Her Mother's Footsteps(2006)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films

  • Subzero (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)

    Composer

  • Ill Fated (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Composer

  • Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    Composer · Sound Effects

  • Cyberon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Composer · Sound Designer

Career shape

A full career of 65 titles from 2000 to 2025.

Biggest box office

The Thaw (2009)

$150K worldwide

Highest rated

A Dickens of a Holiday! (2021)

Midcredits 81st

Most popular right now

Blue Skies (2026)

By role

only this rolewith another role
Music64 of 65: 62 only music, 2 with another role · typical Midcredits score16thOther crew3 of 65: 1 only other crew, 2 with another role

By decade

2000s15 · crew2010s36 · crew2020s14 · crew

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.

How do Michael Neilson's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 21st percentile, the median of all 68; across their 67 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 24th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

24thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 67

Approval · how many liked their films

21stpercentile
Typical film, the median of 67

Reach · how many have seen their films

56thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 67

Midcredits score across 69 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up2
  • 50th to 74th8
  • 25th to 49th18
  • Below 25th41

Shape of the crowd

46 of their 69 titles are Mixed.

  • Universally Panned10
  • Divisive1
  • Cult Classic4
  • Crowd Pleaser8
  • Mixed46

Most divisive · composer

Double Double Trouble (2026)

92nd percentile spread · 36% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · composer

A Dickens of a Holiday! (2021)

Midcredits 81st · 76% liked

Reviewers score the sound and music 44/100 in their films, across 40 reviewed titles; fans 58, detractors 33. 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 Michael Neilson's work okay for kids?

Across up to 6 MovieCove titles with content scores, 1 of the 2 categories sits near the median of all films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore4 titlesmedian 81 · severeMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity6 titles15–71 · median 41 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 32

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 Michael Neilson work with?

People who share at least 2 of Michael Neilson's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Tom Berry shares the most, 43.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Cinematographers and editors

Producers

  • Tom Berry43 titles    See newest 12 of 43 shared titles with Tom Berry
  • Sebastian Battro29 titles    See newest 12 of 29 shared titles with Sebastian Battro
  • Breanne Laplante18 titles    See newest 12 of 18 shared titles with Breanne Laplante
  • Lisa M. Hansen18 titles    See newest 12 of 18 shared titles with Lisa M. Hansen

Mixed roles