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 ...

Horror, a genre long hated by critics and adored by the public, has always strived to challenge the status quo. Between pushing what can be shown on screen and the sanity of mothers everywhere, the ...

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.

Horror is in the eye of the beholder. What makes one person shudder might make another laugh, or simply lean in with curiosity. Whether truly terrifying or just deliciously macabre, this year’s batch ...

Halloween is next week -- and it’s commonly celebrated with kids trick-or-treating door-to-door, haunted houses and costume parades. But in ancient times, the occasion was observed as the eve of the ...

Quite a few gothic rock classics by The Cure could make it to the soundtrack of a horror movie, but I’m partial to the 1989 tune “Lullaby”. That opening melody is so melancholic and ahead of its time, ...

It makes sense that we’re experiencing a horror renaissance. The genre took off during the Great Depression and has been there for us in difficult times to accentuate and provide some semblance of ...

Considered to be the only horror film ever made by Ingmar Bergman, Hour of the Wolf is an intense psychological horror with ...

Fans of slasher horror movies understand that there is an underappreciated variance within the genre, whether it is a darker, slow-burn with a relentless killer, or ...