You know the sound: It's eerie and echoing, and it makes the little hairs on your arms stand up immediately. So many horror movies use it to create a chilling atmosphere, and even some reality shows ...

In the last decade, the horror genre has steadily gained traction and mainstream recognition due to critically acclaimed films like Get Out, It, and Hereditary. Thus, the genre has flourished and is ...

The "Star Trek" phaser sound, iconic in its own right, has its origins in a sci-fi horror classic that helped define the ...

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 ...

From A24, the studio that created “Hereditary” and  “The Witch,” “Undertone” brings a fresh take on horror with minimal ...