Spooky Sounds: The secrets of horror sound design

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We uncover how scary sound effects are created in horror films as well as dissect how sound triggers the fear mechanisms in humans. Featuring Formosa Group Senior Sound Editor/Sound Designer Trevor Gates and Dan Blumstein, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. 20K is made out of the studios of Defacto Sound and hosted by Dallas Taylor. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/spookysounds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. The stories behind the world's most recognizable and
0:36.6	interesting sounds.
0:38.1	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:40.1	When I saw we had an episode coming out around Halloween,
0:43.0	I took to Facebook and Twitter and asked you what some of the world's scariest sounds are.
0:48.1	Some were expected, like a knife sharpening,
0:50.7	or an unsettling laugh.
0:58.0	Other sounds you suggested were more esoteric, like the electronic musical instrument called a theramine.
1:02.0	Others were flat-out surprises.
1:07.0	I had no idea a screaming rabbit that isn't being harmed in any way sounds like this.
1:13.6	Many of you called out specific sounds in horror movies, like The Chainsaw and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
1:19.6	The television static in the ring?
1:25.6	And of course... The television static in the ring?
1:31.3	And of course, the theme from John Carpenter's Halloween.
1:39.3	It got me thinking.
1:40.3	It'd be a lot of fun to deconstruct how the sounds in Hollywood scariest movies are made,
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