Nosferatu: Understanding the Psychology of Horror Music

The original Halloween classic Nosferatu score has largely been lost since it's release in 1922. Nosferatu was terrifying to audiences when it originally came out, but now 100 years later, audiences tend to find it boring and not scary in the slightest. Both of these facts enticed me to see what would happen if we rescored this horror soundtrack. Could we make Nosferatu scary again? What could we learn about scary sounds, the brain, and our relationship to the horror genre through the process? Ultimately I sought to find out: Why do things sound scary? A seemingly simple question with a surprisingly complex answer.
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Of Vampires and the Great War:
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The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind
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