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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. First of all, the types of horror games where sound design matters the most is going to be those ...

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What does decapitation sound like? How about a demon birth? Foley artists explain just how difficult it is to engineer the sounds of horror. Photo: Gabor Kotschy / A24 People often ask Foley artist ...

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 ...

In horror games, sound is more than background noise—it’s a psychological weapon. From eerie ambient drones to sudden silences, every audio cue is designed to make your skin crawl. Understanding how ...

A wave of advanced horror audio toolkits is connecting the creative worlds of game development, live streaming, and cinematic sound design. From Yohan Shin’s unsettling sound redesign for A24’s ...

Megan (She/They) is a freelance journalist from the United Kingdom for the digital publication, Game Rant. She has been professionally writing gaming content for roughly four years now, since starting ...

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 ...

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, ...