For this trailer I handled sound design and audio post. It’s a psychological horror, slow and minimal, the kind that makes you question what’s real, and then shows you it doesn’t really matter, because the nightmare follows you anyway.
I treated sound almost like another character. At first there’s this clean, modern silence, like the house is pretending to be safe. Then you start hearing faint rumbles and distant thumps that don’t match what’s on screen. It tricks your brain into expecting something, but nothing happens. The sound keeps lying to you, and that’s where the tension comes from.
Whispers come in super close, right inside your ears, while the picture shows an empty, echoing room. That mismatch makes you feel watched even when nobody’s there. When the scare finally lands, it’s fast and sharp, like the house suddenly bites.
The pacing mattered more than anything. If sound is the scare, pacing is the hand that decides when to squeeze. Too many hits and people tune out, but hold silence just a bit too long and the audience starts designing their own fear in their heads. That’s the trick: let the brain do half the work. Good horror sound isn’t about loudness, it’s about timing.
