In horror, sound design in an intrinsic component in generating the overall fear factor. If you've ever found yourself covering your ears or preemptively lowering the volume whilst watching a scary ...

There's something lurking in the corner of the room; something big, ugly and grotesque. It's stalking the shadows, sizing up its prey, and everybody's in fear of the havoc it's wreaked - yet no-one's ...

British video game developer The Creative Assembly uses sound effects and music to keep players in a permanently tense state when exploring its video game Alien: Isolation. The title is a spin-off ...

When the developer Creative Assembly promised a return to the brooding horror of 1979’s Alien for this latest video game tie-in, it left fans eager to see how such a tone would translate to a modern, ...

"In space," some marketing genius once said, "no one can hear you scream". Bring the Xenomorph and its associated ecosystem back home, however — as "Alien: Earth" so memorably has — and you hear ...

When a movie works – really, really works – its combination of acting, cinematography, music, sound design, lighting, and editing come together so seamlessly that it can become difficult to pin down ...

The questions of whether we are alone in the universe is one at the heart of sci-fi. The question of who we are if we are not solely God’s creatures... does that mean there’s no God? Only lonely ...