Horror games like Doki Doki Literature Club! and World of Horror can be enjoyed without sound for an immersive experience. Games such as Limbo and The Mortuary Assistant offer cues and visuals that ...

Sound is a crucial method for horror games to elicit fear in a player, and if that player dares to put headphones on, these ...

Have you ever found yourself reaching for the volume button while watching a scary scene in a horror film? Or even muted said scene entirely? The suspense, dread, and atmosphere that had you racing to ...

Robyn’s feature sent me on a trip down memory lane, and got me revisiting one of the musical movies that got me so enamoured ...

In horror, sound design in an intrinsic component in generating the overall fear factor. If you've ever found yourself covering your ears or preemptively lowering the volume whilst watching a scary ...

Picture this: A girl walks alone down a long, creaky hallway. The lights are off, her pace is slow, and she’s inching towards the shadows. What sort of music is playing in the background? Almost ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

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 ...

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It’s officially Halloween night, and your options are either to gas some Mad Dogs and toilet-paper your ex’s house with your friends, or stay in and watch a few more horror movies while you still have ...

Sound of Silence,” a gothic horror feature telling the true story of mass-murdering nuns in Greece, is hitting the AFM.