“The real war,” Walt Whitman famously wrote about the Civil War, “won’t get into the books.” He was thinking about the indescribable horror of that conflict, of a trauma that could not be expressed in ...

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 ...

You know the sound: It's eerie and echoing, and it makes the little hairs on your arms stand up immediately. So many horror movies use it to create a chilling atmosphere, and even some reality shows ...

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 ...

Sound is, without a doubt, one of the most fundamental pillars of a good horror game. Everything, from the music to the creaks and footsteps, has to be in order to ...

Jeremy has more than 2500 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...