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 ...

Dan Blumstein was gently holding a yellow-bellied marmot pup, conducting research, when he first heard one scream. "I was sort of shocked by this scream and almost dropped this animal," he says. "I ...

Sound is a vital tool in Tuason’s film, which begins with a children’s lullaby interspersed with the belabored breathing of a woman on the verge of death. The cycle of life is captured even before we ...

Scream Queens have pretty much existed since the inception of the horror film itself: In the case of Mary Philbin, who unmasks the cadaverous Lon Chaney in 1925's "The Phantom of the Opera," her ...