There is something irresistible about being terrified by horror films. It’s a genre of storytelling that relies on your full immersion, and a horror film is only as good as its eerie music. The ...

Why do so many horror film scores today sound similar to The Exorcist from 1973? Why do so many horror film scores today sound similar to The Exorcist from 1973? A lot of that is thanks to Krzysztof ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Classical music is the devil's work in a handsome but somewhat undercooked horror meller. Restoration wit William Congreve opined that music had charms to soothe the savage breast, but in “The Sonata, ...

I have always lived for horror. I was the kid who would go to the library in elementary school and check out Goosebumps books on rotation. I was the one telling scary stories at the lunch table—which ...

Time warped throughout the evening as both the cast and creative team of Fox’s “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again” greeted costumed fans, while also enjoying a drink or two ...