Good news, gorehounds! The latest one-off special issue of SFX is dedicated to things that go bump in the night When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Stop. Listen. That’s all you have to do. There are so many people that feel the only way to feel alive is to fill the world with noise. They associate noise with life and silence with death. However, ...

Hiding under a pillow during a horror movie can be an effective strategy for filtering the most brutal moments in a film. But often, even behind tightly closed eyes, you can't escape the suspense, ...

With Halloween around the corner, we asked Peter Brown, sound editor behind the movie Paranormal Activity to share his secret behind scary sound effects. Now it's time for our regular segment Words ...

In the horror genre, when a project’s score is just as frightening as the image it accompanies, the composer has successfully done his/her job. Case in point, the scores for John Carpenter’s Halloween ...

The dark corridor ahead is empty. A lamp is lit, breaking up the gloom. There is nothing here, only creaking floorboards. Then why do you feel like this? Like your heart has grown three times in size ...

A horror film composer and a guitar maker have teamed up to create a fear-inducing instrument they call "The Apprehension Engine." The project started last fall when Toronto composer Mark Korven ...

Do you have more splintering? IS there anything like ‘straining at the door panel?'” asks Lawrence Kasdan. His sound designer, Bob Grieve, suggests that the music is too loud; the audience won’t catch ...

If things on Earth aren't scary enough for you this Halloween, you can listen to scary sounds from space thanks to NASA. The U.S. space agency tweeted that they will host a live listen with a question ...

Based on the groundbreaking 1974 film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror experience. Take on the role of one of the notorious Slaughter family, or their victims, in ...

John Carl Buechler, whose Hollywood horror makeup and special effects made movies like 'Hatchet,' 'Deep Freeze' and the Michael Moriarty-starrer 'Troll' into classic frightfests, has died. He was 66.

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