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 ...

Long before radio became mainstream entertainment, Edgar Allen Poe was already writing for the airwaves. Throughout the last decade of his life, his poetry and prose bristled with words and phrasing ...

DALLAS - Johann Sebastian Bach's organ music masterpiece "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" is one of, if not the most notorious spooky song. It has been utilized in several films to create that instant ...

What does “horror” sound like to you? Is it a creepy synth? Pummeling guitars? A maddening drone? Every year, the creative team behind Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights, the most fun, spooky ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elena Chapella (She/Her) is a current Writer for DualShockers, formerly an award-winning journalist for local news stations and newspapers in central Indiana. Elena is passionate about writing, ...