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

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 ...

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

Humans may be primarily visual creatures, but for decades, the sharpest horror filmmakers have understood that if you want to really scare your audience, you can’t just focus on what they see. You ...

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

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 ...

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 ...