The horror film genre is driven by sound as much as image. Anxiety thrives not in what we can see, but in what we can’t.

Long before radio became mainstream entertainment, Edgar Allen Poe was already writing for the airwaves. Throughout the last decade of his life, his poetry and prose bristled with words and phrasing ...

"It's not always what you can see, it's what you can hear..." Blue Harbor Ent. has debuted the main official trailer for an original horror film called The Sound, made by filmmaker Brendan Devane.

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Researchers have shown that humans perceive approaching sounds differently than we perceive receding sounds. We overestimate how quickly the sound approaching us is moving (Neuhoff, 2001). There is ...