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So many times I have found myself watching some unsettling TV "documentary" show (or more likely these days, a spooky youtube) and having to slowly creep to bed terrified in my own house.
It's almost comical. Me, a grown adult, brushing my teeth in the corner with my back pressed against the wall, just in case "something" tries to ambush me.
A huge part of it is, I now know, the soundtrack on these programmes. If you pay attention they almost all use a similar thrum of bass frequencies verging on the inaudible, which tap into something really primitive in your brain to create that sense of unsettling fear and dread. If you mute the volume, there's no fear at all.
you've triggered my trap card and now i'm going to talk about something incredibly nerdy
Sound has such a profound affect on us and no one fucking thinks about it, it's nuts. There have been days when there is barely anyone driving near me and all of a sudden when i walk outside i feel like i've been transported to one of those old swedish movies set in the countryside, it just feels like proper summer somehow. Similar thing happens when there's snow in the winter, everything gets quieter and it sounds like winter in a way that it just doesn't without the snow, but is impossible to put your finger on.
I wish more film would skip the soundtrack and go hard on detailed sound effects