Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along with the ...

Films like “A Quiet Place” use the power of silence to their advantage. The lack of music makes the movie more terrifying ...

Horror, a genre long hated by critics and adored by the public, has always strived to challenge the status quo. Between pushing what can be shown on screen and the sanity of mothers everywhere, the ...

On Oct. 30, the Rivian South Coast Theater hosted “Shadows and Strings: Nosferatu,” a spellbinding performance that ...

There is something irresistible about being terrified by horror films. It’s a genre of storytelling that relies on your full immersion, and a horror film is only as good as its eerie music. The ...

What does “horror” sound like to you? Is it a creepy synth? Pummeling guitars? A maddening drone? Every year, the creative team behind Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights, the most fun, spooky ...

Since when does the Avalon String Quartet require a conductor? Since it started performing music synchronized with film.

Earlier this year in the pages of the Inlander, I wrote about how so-called "elevated" horror films had begun to stake their claim in the summer blockbuster landscape. But now that spooky season is in ...

DEERWOOD — The Great River Strings Orchestra, under the baton of Musical Director Richard Aulie, will present their fall concert, “Blood Curdling Strings,” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov.1, at Cascade United ...

This Halloween week, Opera Philadelphia is giving silent horror films a spine-tingling upgrade: live organ music in the heart of Center City.