A soundtrack can make or break a horror movie. Music can do more than help build or break tension in a scene. It can also speak volumes about the setting, the characters, and the world in which the ...

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 ...

Halloween should be filled with good, albeit strange, music. Horror film soundtracks provide the most suitable gateway to such enjoyment. From grotesque to gorgeous, these represent our ten favorite ...

Harry Wilkinson is a filmmaker, teacher, actor, and award-winning screenwriter. He studied at USC and UCLA , has written scifi and horror screenplays and for such shows as "The Dead Zone" and ...

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 ...

What makes a movie “scary”? The amount of blood and gore shown onscreen, like in Sinners? The unpredictable jump scares that The Conjuring films execute so well at? Or is it the mere suggestion of an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sinners is now available on digital, and fans of the vampire horror flick have wasted no time in ...