Horror Movie Sound Effects with Food. Posted: September 26, 2024 | Last updated: March 20, 2025. Jen uses foods like celery and pumpkins to make sound effects for her first ever horror film.

You know the sound: It’s eerie and echoing, and it makes the little hairs on your arms stand up immediately. So many horror movies use it to create a chilling atmosphere, and even some reality ...

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 in the 1970s.

You know the sound: It's eerie and echoing, and it makes the little hairs on your arms stand up immediately. So many horror movies use it to create a chilling atmosphere, and even some reality ...

If a film is called “Jaws,” there must be just the right shark. Name it “Heist” and the robbery better be a perfect fit. The ...

Tasha Robinson is Polygon’s entertainment editor. She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. There’s a scene in Bring Her ...

Very low sounds often appear in horror movies as well, both in background music and in sound effects. They can appear when a scary monster roars: the monster’s roar is almost always at a ...

gonin/Shutterstock. Sound design is is the craft of combining every piece of audio in a film—including dialogue, sound effects, ambiance, score, and soundtrack—to create the film’s soundscape.