Tracing Experimental Textures and Timbres in Horror Cinema: A Closer Look at William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, and Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island

Many filmmakers have explored the sonic possibilities offered by experimental, avant-garde, and modernist music as it prospered in the mid-twentieth century. Fascinatingly, horror cinema, with all its eerie subject matter, has championed the use of experimental music in its films.