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 ...

A weekend retreat takes some interesting turns for five friends in Cassie Keet’s horror comedy, Scream Therapy. What should be a therapeutic time in isolation turns deadly when they cross paths with ...

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 ...

Scream Queens have pretty much existed since the inception of the horror film itself: In the case of Mary Philbin, who unmasks the cadaverous Lon Chaney in 1925's "The Phantom of the Opera," her ...

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 ...