Alfred Hitchcock famously claimed he didn’t watch his films in theaters. When asked if he missed out on hearing the audience scream, he said, “No. I can hear them scream when I’m making the picture.” ...

A skeptical paranormal podcaster gets more than she bargained for in undertone, a genuinely scary new A24 horror movie. Here's our review.

You really only need a few key elements to make a very effective horror movie, and for writer/director Ian Tuason, those are location, performance and sound. He builds his directorial debut, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...