Editing Horror film (section)

=== Music ===
{{Main|Horror film score}}
[[File:John Carpenter Live 2016.jpg|thumb|Filmmaker and composer [[John Carpenter]], who has directed and scored [[John Carpenter filmography|numerous horror films]], performing in 2016]]
[[Horror film score|Music]] is a key component of horror films. In ''Music in the Horror Film'' (2010), Lerner writes "music in horror film frequently makes us feel threatened and uncomfortable" and intends to intensify the atmosphere created in imagery and themes. It helps to set the overall tense or chilling mood that horror movies often aim to achieve and can even cause physiological effects effects that override learned reactions and behaviors.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Donnelly |first=K. J. (Kevin J. ) |url=https://archive.org/details/spectreofsoundmu0000donn_i6l0/mode/2up |title=The spectre of sound : music in film and television |date=2005 |publisher=London : BFI |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-84457-025-6}}</ref> [[Dissonance (music)|Dissonance]], [[atonality]] and experiments with [[timbre]] are typical characteristics used by [[composer]]s in horror film music.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lerner|first=Neil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VyOAgAAQBAJ&dq=horror+film+music&pg=PP1|title=Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear|date=2009-12-16|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-28044-4|language=en}}</ref>