The Waterphone: Hollywood’s spookiest sound effect
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Will I Be Able Missus Garry Malkin?
The water foam was a prime example of the kind of thing we did to establish that there was something foreboding and unknown and unexplainable. Nothing could do it better than these kinds of sounds. So, marianna, do you have a theory about why the water phone is creepy? Like, what it is about that sound that makes it work? Am, i bet it works because it's not something that any of us have ever heard. Don't worry about it, cause it's not anything you know, you learned about in music class. I was laughing at how what a narrow subject this is. It's like, will i be able missus garry malk
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