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Horror infrasoundtrack
To add creepiness to horror films, bump up the bottom (and I mean looooow frequency) end of the soundtrack. | |
Music covertly laced with very low frequency sound
reportedly elicits feelings of
creepiness, sorrow and foreboding in control-compared
concert
listeners (see link) -- a finding which suggests that sites of
many reports of ghosts, candle flameouts, &c. may be prone
to lots of ambient infrasound.
Film-makers and play-directors could make great use of this
finding to enhance the creep-out factor of their horror/
suspense works. Just have Sony foist on us an even more
extravagantly hyped theater sound system, and have at it.
(Caution: cinemas near zoos or elephant-staffed circuses
should consider avoiding screening infrasoundtracked
versions of films.)
CNN on reported infrasonic creepiness
http://www.cnn.com/...nds.reut/index.html
Anyone know if/where the cited research is published? [n-pearson, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Gets my vote as the creepiest movie I've ever seen
http://video.movies...xthsense/flash.html
[RayfordSteele, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
You serious? This is *way* creepier!
http://rockape.qgl.org/crap/badger.swf
It's all about suspense, it builds you up, and then, well, you'll see. [RoboBust, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
B(if)tek: Frequencies Will Move Together
http://www.smh.com..../1057783281473.html
Aussie electronica band who researched infrasound and used it on this album. [BunsenHoneydew, May 27 2006]
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Or just make the entire soundtrack N'Sync. Oh the horror! |
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David Lynch does this, to excellent effect. |
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Or you could create a low enough
frequency to make them hork up
chunks at all the gross parts in the
movie, and for that you get a
croissant with symbiotic digestive
organisms on it. + |
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//Oh great...So Nightmare on Elmstreet #43 is going to be scarier than #42? Those movies are already scary enough! Do you want people to flee screaming? (the patrons, not the on-sceen victims...they're supposed to flee screaming...)// |
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are you serious? i haven't seen a truly scary film in my entire adult life. some films are 'disturbing,' but i've never come across anything remotely 'scary' |
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i'd love to get my hands on some sample pieces w/ infrasound superimposed on, say, regular classical pieces |
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//are you serious? i haven't seen a truly scary film in my entire adult life. some films are 'disturbing,' but i've never come across anything remotely 'scary' // |
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Seconded. The last time I was actually scared in a movie was when my Dad took me to see Tod Browning's "Freaks" when I was nine. |
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Btw, it occurs to me that the cited experiment may not have controlled for the potential effects of infrasound on the unwitting(?) musicians themselves -- perhaps there's even some feedback of unease as they play more and more dolefully, influencing eachother and the crowd, prompting mass fear-associated pheromone signalling...wish we could read the methodological details. |
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I think this idea might of already been baked way back in the 70s, with "SenSurround". SenSurround was basically a system developed by Universal Studios in 1974 that used about 10 super-high-power subwoofers that were installed in some theaters that were used not just for sound reinforcement, but to make the audience "feel" certain violent scenes in a movie, such as explosions on-screen and what not. It was used for the 70's disaster films "Earthquake" and "Rollercoaster", as well as the theatrical release of "Battlestar Galactica", but proved to be a flop due to the system being so intense that the intense bass rumbling would disturb other moviegoers in theaters next-door... It also cracked the plaster in some theaters... |
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[+] i think this guy is halarious! |
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