Composing scary sounds not for the faint of heart 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 ...

Horror movie sounds evoke primal fear Sound designers have a bag of acoustic “scares” to frighten and unnerve an audience.

Trevor and her colleagues recorded the sounds of some people screaming and collected bits of music composed for the peak moments of tension in horror movies, like during a monster attack. Amongst ...

Why 'Longlegs' sounds so terrifying, from human heartbeats to electric guitars, how sound editor Eugenio Battaglia used those elements to build dread.

If you want to know what it sounds like to root around in someone’s chest cavity without the bloody mess, a grapefruit will do just fine. Tear, compress, and squish it in your hands. With a ...

Film composer Mark Korven, known for his soundtrack to The Witch, commissioned an instrument called the Apprehension Engine to create scary soundscapes.

The musicians who made them created a haunting sound. These classic songs could easily find a place in the soundtrack for a ...

Switch from movies to video games and horror music is no less vital for our favourite scary experiences. There’s no ‘one size fits all’ approach to building terror, and the genre is bursting ...

It is a sound production technique that mimics the natural hearing cues created by our head and ears to create the impression of 3D sound when listening on headphones.

NASA will hold a live session that will play scary space sounds and allow people to ask NASA experts questions this Halloween.