Pattern Recognition – using sound to scare at the movies

To celebrate the BFI’s Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle. Using sounds from Hollywood’s best-known thriller and horror films, Cockburn makes familiar noises frightening and leaves us wondering... What’s that sound? And why won’t it stop?

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