Have you come across those short videos on Instagram where the creators have taken snippets of iconic horror scenes and ...

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 ...

Once Hollywood transitioned to sound, the horror genre as we know it took shape. Dracula (1930) and Frankenstein (1931) ...

In the horror genre, when a project’s score is just as frightening as the image it accompanies, the composer has successfully done his/her job. Case in point, the scores for John Carpenter’s Halloween ...

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 ...

I was recently watching a scene from the 2025 film Weapons for a monograph I’m writing and noticed a familiar sound: a low, unsettling drone as a character walks down a hallway. It’s the same kind of ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

Researchers have shown that humans perceive approaching sounds differently than we perceive receding sounds. We overestimate how quickly the sound approaching us is moving (Neuhoff, 2001). There is ...

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

It looks like we can look forward to some interesting indie atmospheric horror kicking off in 2021. On the PC Gaming Show, We Create Stuff and Modus Games showed off upcoming first-person horror In ...