Review of Sound in Horror Movie

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211120.139How to use a DOI?

Keywords

horror movie; movie sound; psychology; immersion

Abstract

Since 1896, George Méliès has produced the world’s first horror short film, “The House of the Devil” [1]. Today, horror movies have gone through a century of history. With the advancement of technology, horror movies have gradually developed into a mature type of movie. The horror film is an art and sensory art. As one of the expression carriers of this sensory art, sound has an indispensable position. In the book “Postmodern elements of the contemporary horror film” written by Isabel Pinedo, psychoanalysis often uses sound to frighten the audience [2]. The use of sound in horror movies not only participates in the development of the story, promotes the story, portrays the image of people and things, emphasizes the environment and other functions, but also responds to the audience’s psychology, and cooperates with the visual effect to make the audience build expectations and fear, to achieve the audience’s natural identification and immersion in the content of the movie. All these can reflect that sound plays a critical role in horror movies. This article will use some classic film cases in the history of horror movies to explore the connection between sound design in horror movies and audience psychology and how to use sound creation to maximize the atmosphere and immersion of horror movies.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zixiao Gong
AU  - Junchang Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/29
TI  - Review of Sound in Horror Movie
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 767
EP  - 771
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211120.139
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211120.139
ID  - Gong2021
ER  -