Dare to enter the world of "DONT CHECK THE SOUND👀", where chilling audio mysteries await. Embark on an immersive journey ...

Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along with the victim. When you hear a scream, it quickly activates the amygdala, a brain ...

Sound of Silence,” a gothic horror feature telling the true story of mass-murdering nuns in Greece, is hitting the AFM.

Robyn’s feature sent me on a trip down memory lane, and got me revisiting one of the musical movies that got me so enamoured of the genre and home cinema in general: the iconic, gag-worthy, The Rocky ...

Have you ever found yourself reaching for the volume button while watching a scary scene in a horror film? Or even muted said scene entirely? The suspense, dread, and atmosphere that had you racing to ...

It’s officially Halloween night, and your options are either to gas some Mad Dogs and toilet-paper your ex’s house with your friends, or stay in and watch a few more horror movies while you still have ...

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 ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

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 ...

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 ...