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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is one thing to see a tentacled-eyeball alien that consists of even more eyeballs launch out of a cat’s skull, but it is much worse to listen to. When you are squeamish (as I am), people often tell ...

A new single-player action horror game based on Aliens has been announced, and it’s going to be a VR game as well. It’s hard to say what would’ve happened if Alien Isolation had been a major hit. It ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. But in the best space horror movies of all time, there's plenty of audible screaming ...

It's broadly regarded as one of the finest horror films ever created, which might seem peculiar given its spaceship setting, but Alien from 1979 established the benchmark for big-screen monsters. This ...