From horror movie music to ghost sounds, here is the history of horror plays, horror radio, and how actors like Orson Welles created the modern horror movie soundscape.

A brief aural history of horror, or a taxonomy of some of the greatest Foley art and sound design from Cat People to the new Hellraiser and how each came to be.

Kasdan is spending yet another afternoon in a movie theater on the Sony lot with Starfleet-level computer equipment and 12 other people, all of whom are trying to get the perfect sound effects for ...

With Halloween around the corner, we asked Peter Brown, sound editor behind the movie Paranormal Activity to share his secret behind scary sound effects.

Movies may be a visual medium, but the best scary flicks will cut right through the hand you instinctually put over your eyes. It could be a music swell or a small sound effect or a single spoken ...

Composing scary sounds not for the faint of heart From the double-bass pulse that signals the presence of the giant shark in "Jaws," to the shrieking strings that slice along with Norman Bates ...