Music in Film
MUSIC IN HORROR FILM (How the soundtrack affects your fear) When the music starts, its time to be scared. Music, or more realistically, the soundtracks of the horror films we love to watch have a profound effect on our psyches. Watch a horror film without music and it might be gruesome but it does not set your nerves guitar string tight. Watch the same film with the soundtrack and you add the tension that brings your mind into the viewing equation. Music in horror films probably has more impact on the viewing audience then any other genre of movie. What would Jaws have been without the now famous sounds of bump bump, bump bump, bump bump, bumpbumpbumpbump or Psycho without the screeching violin string music in the shower scene. ... The soundtrack in any film sets the tone and the mood. ... He can show you blood and gore or he can set you up with the right suspense building music to scare the living daylights out of you.