Horror filmmaker Ian Tuason is making his feature debut with “Undertone.” The minimalist, auditory horror film about a ...

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 ...

Sound is a vital tool in Tuason’s film, which begins with a children’s lullaby interspersed with the belabored breathing of a woman on the verge of death. The cycle of life is captured even before we ...

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 ...