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‘Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror’ courted controversy upon its release in 1977—but despite graphic track titles like “Red Hot Poker Into Eye” and a campaign to have it banned, it became an ...

From the double-bass pulse that signals the presence of the giant shark in "Jaws," to the shrieking strings that slice along with Norman Bates' knife in "Psycho's" famous shower scene, horror films ...

With Halloween around the corner, we asked Peter Brown, sound editor behind the movie Paranormal Activity to share his secret behind scary sound effects. Now it's time for our regular segment Words ...

Do you have more splintering? IS there anything like ‘straining at the door panel?'” asks Lawrence Kasdan. His sound designer, Bob Grieve, suggests that the music is too loud; the audience won’t catch ...

Hiding under a pillow during a horror movie can be an effective strategy for filtering the most brutal moments in a film. But often, even behind tightly closed eyes, you can't escape the suspense, ...

One of the most aggravating aspects of recent horrors, say in the last fifteen years or so, has been Jump Scares. What's that, you might ask? It's essentially where you have something appear behind a ...

“Every year, my family and I decorate our home for Christmas and for Halloween… we’re big on holiday decorations around these parts,” Andrew Gold wrote in the liner notes for his seminal 1996 ...

There is a miscellany of sounds heard while playing Minecraft, but the ones on this list are sure to make a player's blood run cold when they hear them. Minecraft is home to various lovely sounds, ...

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 ...