In “All Quiet on the Western Front,” from director Edward Berger, soldier Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) is found in a pile of rubble by his comrades having survived a night of enemy shelling. As he ...

There are some sounds that stay with you, rattling around in your brain until they become part of your sonic memory. See enough movies, and certain sound effects will hold this honor—like the Wilhelm ...

Erik Aadahl and Ethan van de Ryn describe their work on the thriller, including how a stun gun and grapes were used to create the sound of the creatures. By THR Staff Erik Aadahl and Ethan van de Ryn, ...

What if living in silence was your only means of survival? That’s the question supervising sound editors Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl had to answer in the hair-raising thriller “A Quiet Place” ...

It was quiet. Maybe too quiet. With advocates for pedestrians and the blind warning that hybrid and electric cars could catch walkers unaware, the designers of the Nissan Leaf have added sound effects ...

If you use social media, you've probably come across Will Littlejohn's work. Not that you'd know it—as director of sound design at Facebook, Littlejohn does not draw attention to himself. His sonic ...

Sound editors Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl are up for an Academy Award for the "sonic envelopes" in John Krasinski's horror hit. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big ...