Have you come across those short videos on Instagram where the creators have taken snippets of iconic horror scenes and ...

Primate star Troy Kotsur talks about bringing audiences into his world without sound in a new behind-the-scenes featurette.

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some dude hears a strange scary sound out in the middle of the woods all alone with mushroom hunting (not like that) in a freaky-ass new video fitting dubbed: “Strange Sound While Mushroom Hunting.” ...