Item 01
Soundscapes & ambience
Layered environments for mazes, sets and scenes, built to unsettle rather than just fill the silence.
Horror sound design & audio
Most fear enters through the ears. Turn the sound off in a horror film and it becomes a comedy. Dread Works designs the audio that makes the dark feel occupied: the room tone that's slightly wrong, the footsteps that stop when yours do, the low rumble you feel in your chest before anything appears.
We create sound for spaces, screens and headphones, designed alongside the scares so the audio sets up the fright instead of just decorating it.
Exhibit list
What we
deliver
Item 02
Binaural & spatial audio
3D sound for headphones, surround and multi-speaker installations that puts something right behind the listener.
Item 03
Creature & vocal design
Monster voices, whispers, breaths and screams, performed, processed and made to feel real.
Item 04
Scare stingers & hits
Sound cues timed to scares, and the silence before them.
Item 05
Foley
Footsteps, doors, bones, fabric and the small, wrong sounds that sell a scene.
Item 06
Show control audio
Triggered and looping playback designed for working attractions and live events.
Procedure
How it
works
- 01
Listen
We study the space, the edit or the script: what your audience should hear, and what they shouldn't.
- 02
Palette
We build a signature sound palette so the whole project sounds like one world.
- 03
Design
Sound design, recording and mixing, delivered in the formats your venue, engine or edit needs.
- 04
Tune
We tune on site or in session, because a sound that works in a studio can die in a warehouse.
Transcript
Questions
asked
Can you design audio for a haunted attraction?
Yes. We design zone-by-zone soundscapes, triggered scare cues and looping ambience for haunts, mazes and scream parks, and we tune levels on site.
What is binaural horror audio?
Binaural audio is recorded or processed so that, on headphones, sounds seem to come from specific points around the listener, including from behind. It's one of the most effective tools in horror podcasts and audio-led immersive experiences.
Do you deliver game-ready audio?
Yes. We deliver assets and adaptive stems prepared for middleware such as FMOD or Wwise, working alongside your audio programmer.
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Who we do
this for
Final reel
Tell us your
nightmare
Book a free consultation. Tell us what you're making, who it's for and what they should feel. We'll tell you how to make it worse.