The horror film genre is driven by sound as much as image. Anxiety thrives not in what we can see, but in what we can’t.

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It’s a dark and stormy night. Outside, the wind is howling. Rain is beginning to tap steadily at the window. You decide it’s the perfect setting to watch a scary movie. Armed with a bowl of popcorn, ...

Discover 7 horror movies that use silence and subtle sound over jump scares. From Bird Box to The Invisible Man, these films ...

From the double-bass pulse that signals the presence of the giant shark in "Jaws," to the shrieking strings that slice along with Norman Bates' knife in "Psycho's" famous shower scene, horror films ...

Sound is a crucial method for horror games to elicit fear in a player, and if that player dares to put headphones on, these ...

Stop. Listen. That’s all you have to do. There are so many people that feel the only way to feel alive is to fill the world with noise. They associate noise with life and silence with death. However, ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

In horror, sound design in an intrinsic component in generating the overall fear factor. If you've ever found yourself covering your ears or preemptively lowering the volume whilst watching a scary ...

The world is full of sounds, and sound can affect us greatly. Some sounds are pleasant, like the laughter of a small child or a babbling brook in a peaceful forest. Other sounds are unpleasant, like ...

Do you have more splintering? IS there anything like ‘straining at the door panel?'” asks Lawrence Kasdan. His sound designer, Bob Grieve, suggests that the music is too loud; the audience won’t catch ...