"Berberian Sound Studio," currently streaming for free on Tubi, examines an overlooked aspect of horror production through a ...

With 'undertone' making itself heard in theaters this week, we look at six horror films where the sound design is the star.

What does decapitation sound like? How about a demon birth? Foley artists explain just how difficult it is to engineer the sounds of horror. Photo: Gabor Kotschy / A24 People often ask Foley artist ...

Long before radio became mainstream entertainment, Edgar Allen Poe was already writing for the airwaves. Throughout the last decade of his life, his poetry and prose bristled with words and phrasing ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. First of all, the types of horror games where sound design matters the most is going to be those ...

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 ...

Note: This piece is better heard than read. To hear this review and the specific musical moments it references, listen at the audio link. Mark Korven specializes in making scary sounds. Lately, though ...

Scientists have discovered a brain pathway that explains why scary sounds can trigger fear before you even understand what you’re hearing.

Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to ...