Pattern Recognition

using sound to scare at the movies

8 mins
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?

Daniel Cockburn

Self (voice)

Gene Hackman

Self (archive footage)

Daniel Kaluuya

Self (archive footage)

John Travolta

Self (archive footage)

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