The scariest stuff is what you can’t see: how we got the sound of horror films

The horror film genre is driven by sound as much as image. Anxiety thrives not in what we can see, but in what we can’t.

Specific musical features have the power to make people bounce or sway, researchers discover

It evokes spontaneous dancing, like head bopping, jumping, or arm swinging. Other music is for swaying, or for crying, or for ...