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 ...
The brain has evolved to interpret these irregular sounds as potential danger, triggering that instinctive “fight or flight” response. It’s the reason the screeching violins in the movie “Psycho” or ...
October is here, and so is the undeniable anticipation for Halloween. With many popular horror flicks being released within the last few decades, “early horror” — a subgenre of 20th-century films ...