Over 70 years ago, Roald Dahl proposed that plants could scream in a fictional story called The Sound Machine. He suggested they could shriek — a high-pitched shriek undetectable to the human ear.

Now that you've seen it, what did you think? "Do you like scary movies?" That's how it all began back in 1996 when Drew Barrymore picked up the phone before becoming the first victim of the iconic ...

From "A Star Is Born" to "Star Wars" to "Dial of Destiny," the Wilhelm scream keeps reminding us that movies are fun. When audiences hear the Wilhelm scream in “Dial of Destiny,” it’s sound designer ...

The Wilhelm Scream Is Probably Film’s Most Famous Sound Effect. A Local Professor Recently Discovered The Original Recording The "Wilhelm scream" is arguably the most recognizable stock sound effect ...

From an auditory perspective, the reason we react swiftly to eerie sounds is that the auditory system processes information more quickly than the visual system. This allows humans to respond ...

The Aztec Death Whistle is somewhere between a whistling wind, a blood-curdling high-pitched scream or "the scream of a thousand corpses." The whistle is said to be have been used by the Aztecs during ...

Oscar-nominated 'Rise of Skywalker' sound editors David Acord and Matthew Wood share the stories behind Babu Frik and the TIE fighters. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor “It’s just trying to create that ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. You may have heard this saying. It’s the tagline from the famous 1979 science fiction movie “Alien.” It’s a scary thought, but is it true? The simple answer is ...