Writer-director Ian Tuason explains how iPhone voice memos and children's songs played backwards make up the "really creepy" soundscape of his new horror movie ...

The early levels of Capcom’s Resident Evil: Requiem rank among the franchise’s most terrifying, dropping protagonist Grace ...

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 ...

The brain has evolved to interpret these irregular sounds as potential danger, triggering that instinctive “fight or flight” response. It’s the reason the screeching violins in the movie “Psycho” or ...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Longlegs,” now playing in theaters. When “Longlegs” sound designer and editor Eugenio Battaglia first spoke with director Osgood Perkins about the ...

Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to ...

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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sounds Terrifying Explore the cryptic Strüvat Laboratories in this blind accessible, audio-focused horror experience. Uncover what dark secrets lay in its ...

Scientists have discovered a brain pathway that explains why scary sounds can trigger fear before you even understand what ...

Preclinical studies on animals have identified brain pathways that drive quick, protective fear responses to "scary" sounds.