Alfred Hitchcock famously claimed he didn’t watch his films in theaters. When asked if he missed out on hearing the audience ...

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

By weaponizing their aural experience, these movies create a sense of terror that persists even when the viewer looks away. Writer-director Ian Tuason’s new film undertone has entirely sold itself as ...

While the horror genre is still capable of producing some innovative filmmaking, most of the output tends to fall back on jump scares and other tropes to deliver their terror. So when a film like the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The marriage of sound design to thoughtful, carefully placed camera movements makes for a horror film that’s a suspenseful slow burn.

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 ...