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

By weaponizing their aural experience, these movies create a sense of terror that persists even when the viewer looks away.

Alfred Hitchcock famously claimed he didn’t watch his films in theaters. When asked if he missed out on hearing the audience ...

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 ...

While the horror genre is still capable of producing some innovative filmmaking, most of the output tends to fall back on ...

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 ...

The world is full of sounds, and sound can affect us greatly. Some sounds are pleasant, like the laughter of a small child or a babbling brook in a peaceful forest. Other sounds are unpleasant, like ...

The marriage of sound design to thoughtful, carefully placed camera movements makes for a horror film that’s a suspenseful slow burn.