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

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 ...

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 ...

Patrick is a former corporate drone who has a healthy obsession with current and classic cinema. He also harbors an unhealthy obsession with The Real Housewives franchise. The quality of a horror ...

October is here, and so is the undeniable anticipation for Halloween. With many popular horror flicks being released within the last few decades, “early horror” — a subgenre of 20th-century films ...

If there's one thing that never changes about the horror genre, despite its ups and downs, it's that its franchises never die. In just the last few years we've seen sequels and spinoffs for the likes ...