By weaponizing their aural experience, these movies create a sense of terror that persists even when the viewer looks away.

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

While the horror genre is still capable of producing some innovative filmmaking, most of the output tends to fall back on ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...