Behind the sounds: Foley artists recreate everyday noises in studio settings, using imaginative props to make film worlds feel real and subtly cue dread. Psychology of audio: Unsettling sound textures ...

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 ...

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 ...