"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Preclinical studies on animals have identified brain pathways that drive quick, protective fear responses to "scary" sounds.