• “Music in a horror film, …participates crucially in the creation of the film’s meaning, and so close attention to the score with both the eye and the ear will generate readings of the film that do not emerge when considering only the visual and cinematographic.” (Lerner, 2010)
• “I argued …that films could not be adequately understood without consideration of the relations between sound and images.”(Johnson, 1989)
• “…Although we may not be allowed to witness the penetration of the knife itself, we can hear it. This rupture of illusion comes from the music itself. ” (Fenimore, 2010)
• “…It is only the music, which accumulates low pedal tones and manic shrieks around the grimly