By weaponizing their aural experience, these movies create a sense of terror that persists even when the viewer looks away. Writer-director Ian Tuason’s new film undertone has entirely sold itself as ...

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

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

While the horror genre is still capable of producing some innovative filmmaking, most of the output tends to fall back on jump scares and other tropes to deliver their terror. So when a film like the ...

Humans may be primarily visual creatures, but for decades, the sharpest horror filmmakers have understood that if you want to really scare your audience, you can’t just focus on what they see. You ...

A skeptical paranormal podcaster gets more than she bargained for in undertone, a genuinely scary new A24 horror movie. Here's our review.

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 ...

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 ...

Long before radio became mainstream entertainment, Edgar Allen Poe was already writing for the airwaves. Throughout the last decade of his life, his poetry and prose bristled with words and phrasing ...

Terrifying modern classics like It Follows, The Babadook, and Hereditary are all among the best, most perfect horror movies ...