The campaign to ban ‘Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror’ didn’t stop it from becoming the first sound effects album to break the UK Top 100 charts.

From horror movie music to ghost sounds, here is the history of horror plays, horror radio, and how actors like Orson Welles created the modern horror movie soundscape.

The scream is the result of the animal straining its vocal cords and producing a so-called nonlinear and consequently unpredictable sound that is rough, discordant, and jarring.

A brief aural history of horror, or a taxonomy of some of the greatest Foley art and sound design from Cat People to the new Hellraiser and how each came to be.

From "A Star Is Born" to "Star Wars" to "Dial of Destiny," the Wilhelm scream keeps reminding us that movies are fun. When audiences hear the Wilhelm scream in “Dial of Destiny,” it’s sound ...

What is it about screams that make them so universally unnerving? Blumstein listened to recordings of different animals screaming, hunting calls designed to attract predators, and horror movies.

Often, screams in horror movies come from stock files. Chances are, they're one of two stock screams: the Wilhelm or the Howie ...

The Wilhelm Scream is one of the most famous sound effects in film history. It's been used in over 100 Hollywood movies and became an inside trope.