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 ...

Hear that? That’s me revving up to go off about the importance of sound in movies. Often overlooked and underappreciated, sound design can make or break a film. Especially in horror. After all, a good ...

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 ...