“Sound of Silence,” a gothic horror feature telling the true story of mass-murdering nuns in Greece, is hitting the AFM. Playtime, a Vuelta Group company, has boarded international sales on the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Immaculate may appear to be all about evil nuns. In the movie’s grisly opening, four ...

The portrayal of a demonic nun in horror movies is unsettling because it takes an innocently pure figure and transforms it into a terrifying monster or places it in impossibly scary situations. Nuns ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The existence of nuns within genre cinema is far from unusual. Religious belief exists as a ...

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 ...

Researchers have shown that humans perceive approaching sounds differently than we perceive receding sounds. We overestimate how quickly the sound approaching us is moving (Neuhoff, 2001). There is ...