This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

Like Icarus, it’s always possible for movie sound design to fly too close to the sun; too many audio layers and the sound of a moment can start to melt into a mess of nothing. So the filmmakers behind ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

The horror genre loves its demon, whether figurative or metaphorical. Those servants of Satan love to wreak havoc on us puny mortals. From making homes smell like sulfur to full-on possession, demons ...