Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)

Review of Sound in Horror Movie

Authors
Zixiao Gong1, *, Junchang Zhang2
1 2London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB, England
*Corresponding author. Email: z.gong0220201@arts.ac.uk
Corresponding Author
Zixiao Gong
Available Online 29 November 2021.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 November 2021
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.211120.139
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211120.139How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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