Maybe for American horror. Many Japanese horror movies work on a psychological level with no scary soundtrack. And not talking about American adaptions. The OG Japanese movies. There's some TH-cam vids that cover this. Pretty interesting to see how different cultures write and direct horror movies.
Plus, I imagine “someone’s behind me and I didn’t hear them” is just so normal for so many deaf/hoh folk that it doesn’t really startle them much anymore in public!
I'm a scare actor and we're told about hearing impaired customers specifically. It doesn't make sense to scream at them. Instead we try to get way more animated as characters and assure they can see us trying to screw with them - less worries about snarling and growling or screaming, more focus on looking as strange or unsettling as possible. That being said, I'd love to learn ASL to interact with customers when we get them
I’m also a scare actor and I used to use very simple asl to communicate to people coming to the haunt. My character was mostly mute so I pretty much entirely used visually unsettling things to scare people. (Except the occasional scream in someone’s face while they talked to me or banging on the metal portapotty when someone was inside)
I recommend going to the factory of terror in Ohio. They can touch and stuff but it’s not obscene or anything like that one guy who was arrested recently.
loll, if this makes sense, i can feel/sense other people's presence before I know they're genuinely there, I'm surprised she didn't feel his breathing !😭
There are particular frequencies of sound that humans can endurance anxiety. This sounds make us feel anxious of something dangerous nearby or something bad about to happen.
Yup. It was incredibly unsettling, especially from her position as a deaf woman, alone in a remote area and unable to hear where the guy trying to hurt her is.
This is such a good example of it, too!! He clicks his teeth shut and that makes a sound, it would have startled most people, but.. because you couldn't hear him, you didn't even notice!
YES! I'm visually impaired after losing my vision a couple years ago, and my first time in a haunted trail again was hilarious. It wasn't until halfway through that they realized I needed to have the audio based jump scares amped up. They told me after that they'd never had a louder walkthrough 😂
Oh I think I would be way more scared hearing the sounds and feeling people near me but not being able to see anything!! In fact, that's usually the scariest part of haunted forest type things for me....the part BEFORE you see anything
If youre a scare actor who wants to make sure deaf ppl get a little scared too, i would advise just jumping rlly hard on the floor a few times to unease them. theyll feel the vibrations. Also run in front of them to jumpscare them, and in between hallways
That makes a lot of sense, especially in combination with someone else’s comment about how for hearing people, the sound of the actor in this video clicking his teeth together would have been the startling moment. So something like a slight vibration in the ground unexpectedly close to them might replicate that same feeling
I work at a haunted house and my whole job is I dress as a plague doctor and jump down in front of people from the ceiling while someone zip lines above them and I’m constantly told I’m the best room in the house because I do a mix of everything. Plus nobody expects someone to just fly above you and then see someone drop and disappear 😂😂
Letting them find you has also worked really well in my experience-- crouching real low in the corner and then twitching my head one way so the movement catches their eye usually gets a good scream xD
Fun fact! Theres a specific frequency used in horror films that triggers the brain to have anxiety (this might not be entirely accurate because i learned this a long time ago) they discovered the frequency because a fan in an office space was broken and making that noise and it caused people in that area to miss work because of those symptoms. When they finally discovered the cause of it a horror producer put it in his film and it was pretty successful
Years ago I learned that: fear gets through you by the ear. Horror movies without sound are nothing. The use of sharp sounds or ultrasonic are the ones that creeps you. Its something evolutionary 😂
this is why i prefer psychological horror/thrillers and when they don’t rely on jump-scares and sharp sounds. im unfortunately a movie plot predictor so jump-scares are just annoying. “i saw that coming a mile away”
A Quiet Place to me was also really good. They used sound but I feel like they were quiet in the scenes they needed to be to get a good scare. It is still reliant on sound though
Hey, I’m a scare actor who’s also currently trying to learn ASL! Do you have any tips for how to give Deaf/HoH people a good scare experience (while still being respectful, of course)?
Oooh! I also want to know the answer! ✋ I always wanted to make a non gore horror game that plays off fears people have, and I want those who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing to enjoy the game too!
hi!! i volunteer at a deaf-run scare house and am learning asl!! i would say so long as there are visuals, perhaps jumping out really fast, or vibrations they can feel (ie slamming a desk/wall) you could get them really good!!
There's a deaf school in I believe Portland Oregon that puts on a fully ASL haunted house around Halloween, you might be able to find videos of their stuff online.
They use infrasounds which are bellow our hearing range so even though we can't hear them, we can sense them and they send us goosebumps due to our reflexes from our ancestors 😅 Learned that in music theory
This is the exact reason why I wear earplugs to ANY haunted house or live horror-type experiences. I went to my first haunted house without some and nearly had a panic attack. Now I just sail through them and enjoy the artistry and efforts everyone had put into it all. Occasionally someone can still scare me when I don’t see them first, but luckily it’s much more manageable with the earplugs.
Ngl why go to a haunted house then? The whole point is to be scared asf. If it’s not scary anymore why pay money to go? I work in a haunted house and you have to sign a waiver to go in and we don’t allow earplugs or lights or phones or anything because people like to take advantage of that kind of thing. But as a scare actor I just wanna know what is appealing about a haunted house where you’re not getting scared?
@blastypie right, that's what the other person is saying, why go to a haunted house if the experience may give you a panic attack? They're not judging, just curious as to the thought process behind it
@@garf7298 as an autistic, I can say part of the reason I wear earplugs is so that I can participate in an activity just like everyone else. It makes me feel included instead of left out. Without earplugs, I can get sensory overload and then it is quite miserable. With them, I might not get the “full” experience, but I get some experience that is enjoyable. For me, it is all about inclusion. And also enjoying other stimuli: like visual stimuli, the art, the decor, the acting, the smells, the atmosphere… The experience has more aspects than just sound
@@garf7298 it’s still scary in a way that my anxiety and diagnosed ptsd can handle better. I tend to have sensory issues with loud noises as I was going deaf as a kid and had to have corrective surgeries. Still have a ton of sensitivity to sounds though. I like the scary scenes and visual jumps and scares when they blow air puffs on you, but the loud sound mixed with the overly stimulating scenarios sometimes send my nervous system into more of a spiral than I can physically control, so I regulate with earplugs. I applaud the scare actors though. Too many of my friends who work haunts have been assaulted, so I understand the strict rules for the crowds they draw.
It's very true. I was a projectionist for a movie theater a loooong time ago(like 10 years) back in the day when movies were all 35mm movies, like actual reels. One of the things i needed to check constantly was if a reel was put together right. For explanation it came in pieces of approximately 5/6 reels that we then put together with special tape. But sometimes you would mistape and a frame could be suddenly half top half bottom. So we did checks. There were some horror movies that i would watch from the backroom without sound on. They are absolutely not scary at all without sound. Which is hilarious.
Man I love horror games I wish they made more for console. I could probably afford a nice pc but I heard you have to update the expensive graphics card every so often
@@SumOneSomewhereslay the princess (a horror visual novel) is releasing on console this October! (They have already been on pc for a bit, but the game will have expanded content released alongside the console release, and the console game will include this expanded content, while for pc players it’s a free dlc to the basegame) It’s less jump-scare heavy though, (I think there’s only like, two or three in the game currently, though there may be some in the expanded content?), it’s more existential and cosmic horror, with some great body horror in the visuals too!
Definitely true af sound is extremely important to horror it’s the number 1 thing you need to get right. As a kid I couldn’t play horror games by myself unless I turned the volume off 😂
I'm sorry, but that reaction when you realised they were behind you was so sweet and wholesome❤ I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I just think you were so nice about it. Puts a smile on my face😊
as a scare actor I do think the industry needs more acknowledgment of hard of hearing people and their engagement with haunted attractions! i’ve had two people who I believed to have been deaf (they were signing briefly to the people they were with and didn’t react to any noises happening) come through the haunted maze I worked in this year and I mostly just try to focus on visual scares for the few seconds they had going past me but I do think it’s something that could be covered more in training for sure!
This is why it's so important to build atmosphere in other ways! We rely far too much on sound in horror the same way we do on jumpscares. We need more media in horror that focuses on the actual Looks of horror and how to make someone feel uncomfortable without blaring noises in their ears.
I've noticed that flickering lights also tend to be utilized a ton in horror media, especially games, which can become problematic for anyone with viewing sensitivities.
I hope you got to experience A Quiet Place while at Halloween Horror Nights! So cool that all the actors learned ASL! What an incredible accessibility win for an incredible movie!
I went to Knotts scary farm one time,with my bestie and her dad . First thing we did was go through a maze. And this werewolf dude came up behind me and snarled in my ear and I freaked tf out and flailed and accidentally hit him in the face,and I felt something wet and legit lost my shit and started crying and screaming..and they had to escort me back with a flashlight 😂😂😂 to this day I get the ick when I hear snarling
There's this thriller called Hush, and it's about a deaf woman in the woods trying to escape from a man trying to break into her house. But obviously she was struggling because she couldn't hear him. One of the most on-edge cinema experiences i've ever had
True. Noises are the only warning you may get before disaster. That's why many prey animals have such good hearing. The ancient urge in us humans also just naturally reacts to loud or sudden sound as a potential attack, which is why it's a main component of horror 😅
Thats why i watch horror movie recaps on silent w/ subtitles before engaging with the actual movie (if at all lol). It gives my rational brain a chance to process the story before the sounds have a chance to trigger a visceral response. I also wear Loops earplugs to Halloween Horror Nights because the sounds would be too overwhelming. 😅 HHN is one of my husband's favorite things but i hate horror, so wearing Loops is how I manage to stay present with him through an experience he loves. Without them, I'd have to leave after the first haunted house 😅😅 (they also strangely make it easier for me to hear him talking amidst the hubbub) 100/10 would recommend for people with auditory sensitivities
Oh my word, as someone who's hard of hearing, I get jump scared constantly 🤣 Usually if someone (such as my mom or siblings) tries to get my attention and I can't hear them, they go from conversational to 1000 real quick and try to shout to get it, which ends up giving me a heart attack every time 💀💀
I don't know how widespread this is among haunt attractions, but my boss constantly reminds us that you can not scare everyone, but you can entertain everyone. Make 'em laugh!
The sounds and music are EVERYTHING especially in a horror movie, I used to cover my ears to watch "the exorcist"...the music theme hunted me for a week!
I find these kind of thoughts so refreshing. It is so cool to think about how it is. I'm getting very hard of hearing and my vision is depleting so fast. I think it is from watching the android/iphone screen since it came in the market
I’m currently working as a scare actor/performer. I’m mostly in shows but between we’re allowed to roam and scare people (as long as we are where we need to be on time). When I’m roaming I tend to rely more on visually being unsettling than making the creepy sounds. It’s just easier for me to do and less common- Being double jointed in a few places with 16 years of dance training means instead of a screaming banshee they get the amusement park equivalent of the girl from the ring skittering at them on the ground and bending backwards to keep eyes on target. I have used sound-based scares before but it’s mostly to just get me out of rough situations with patrons- people don’t expect the silent one to scream
Lol I definitely do I was terrified of even the rinkiest dinkiest haunted houses even the one that was put on by the eighth graders at our school, which we were forcedly herded through, and yes, closing your eyes theoretically saves you from a jump scare but closing your ears by plugging them with your fingers and not hearing the creeping discordant notes, the suspenseful music stings, the Constant screaming and sudden shouts, makes it a lot more comical 😅 if only AirPods existed back then, playing some ABBA or something would've really saved me I think
My mom is missing an eye and I was walking on her good side and at frightfest at 6 flags a clown was on her blind side, I saw and trying not to laugh i said hey mom look and she looks at him and said oh hello. The man was so disappointed, got a zombie to check his breath later on. Still very fond memories, she was trying to help my brother not be scared but also ended up seriously wounding some ego’s. She also popped out her prosthetic eye once or twice when they were being obnoxious getting too close or wouldn’t leave us alone. Best mom ever. (I still feel bad about the clown I was trying to help him out he was following us for a good while 😅 mom felt bad too, he was really trying and being respectful about it, those are the best kinds of scare-ers)
Something I've never thought about before Thank you for sharing about the awareness or that subject. It was nice they actually did that for you though , making you jump to make you feel part of it all. 😀
Haha this is so funny cause the scare actor is showing horror without sound. They do this to people all the time, quietly stand behind them closely until they realize or then get really close out of no where to scare you and depending on the character a lot of times they don’t make any sounds
Can we give the actor a round of applause for not defaulting to physical touch like 95% of people do when they realize someone's deaf? Yes, i know theyre trained not to touch, but it would have been super easy to forget that in the moment. Give that person their goddamn props lmao
This is why my haunt was actually taught *not* to linger too long and rely on noise, but to come in from an angle, back out quickly and rely more on the fact that humans are most terrified by things that look like they *should* be human but aren’t quite right.
1000% percent true! That's why I mute the sound watching scary movies at home, totally lessens the fear. Also, I won't watch a scary movie at the theater anymore.
This is exactly why the movie Hush creeped me out so much and is sooo scary and horrifying to think about being a real situation someone would have to be in. It’s definitely interesting to try and imagine another persons perspective/interactions whatever it may be. It’s a thinker! Great video 🤗
I have sensory issues with sound so I often wear noise cancelling headphones, I was always the one sent first through haunted houses and I'd wave at the actors and smile while everyone behind me was freaking out lol I never knew why but now it makes sense
I'm a woman with an abled body and only suffer from invisible disability. I always, always look back when I walk at night on the street with or without street lights. I wonder what our fellow deaf and mute women do to protect themselves. It's 2024, and in the perfect world, no one should feel unsafe walking on the street. Insightful video clip.
Ive worked haunted attractions since i was a child. Wed get so many deaf customers every season. Multiple large groups, sometimes multiple groups in a single day. Ive worked outside managing and entertaining the line and crowd, and learned some basic sign language to explain basic line commands like "please move forward", or "turn around", but i also learned some other phrases like "i can smell your blood", or "im going to follow you home. See you tonight". Our haunts didnt rely entirely on sound. We used textures, scents, tons of visual gags, etc. We had rooms where youd be standing in an inch of water while sparks shot from the ceiling, or youd walk into a swamp and smell fish, cedar wood, and other earthy scents. Sound played a roll, but it was mostly there to set ambience and drown out other scenes and screams.
It’s the music and the dramatic sound effects that get me. So any scary scene that comes up, I just block my ears 😭 done that since I was little and still works to this day 🥴
So true. When I was growing up I'd turn the sound down or off on scary movies and it made them way more bearable. I also easily found the scary movies that actually good plots versus the ones that were just jumpscares the whole time. Like "hide n seek" was actually a genuinely good thriller movie
Mythbusters did a thing years ago about different sound frequencies and how they can affect our emotions and whatnot. They tried they typical horror sounds, and it obviously got ppl, and they also did relaxing frequencies which had the opposite effect(as one would expect.) I forgot how it ended, but it's worth a watch if you're interested in learning the bacis of sound frequencies from Mythbusters.
That would make a terrific horror film!😮 imagine with impaired hearing you'd think it'd be harder to escape the villain but then the deaf one ends up using all of her other senses to finally overpower the killer and survive. I'm not into the true horror films, but I'd definitely go to see that movie!
THIS IS SO FUNNY!! But also I totally get this! I love seeing how horror movies turn from real scary to the most mediocre fear level when you take out the suspenseful, eery, violin
So true, sometimes when I’m getting really freaked out I turn the sound off and all I experience is watching someone walking down a corridor really slowly 😂
Sight too lol. I once lost my contacts in a house of horror and I couldn’t see any of the scary faces or really tell what was going on because it was so dark lol. Fears were all gone after that lol
The best part is she's not wrong. Consider the following. Dead Space is notorious for being one of the most paranoia inducing video games in the hrror industry, and that's because there's a tone being played at just the right hertz that it can't really be perceived consciously, however our brain is being exposed to that sound which induced this state of paranoia and fear during gameplay.
This is soooo true, went to a haunted house attraction once, all the fear factor was in the sounds alone!!! The animatronics were cool, I enjoyed the experience but the sounds were what probably scared ppl the most... It was startlingly loud! Glad I covered my ears first while entering, then as I got used to it I walked through the entirety of it without covering my earsss
True that sound plays a big role in horror, but lack of sound is just as terrifying if not more. I've felt more fear from silent or quiet tone horrors than scream-scare horror. It's harder to come out of cause, with sound there is a search for explanation or information or uncovering, but without sound you're left with nothing. No clues, no cues, no alerts, no information, just nothing and that's more terrifying cause you can never know what's coming or when it's coming, so you're left with a constant sense of unease
As Jordan Peele said “The difference between comedy and horror is the music.” He was speaking facts
I mean, he ain't wrong since he understands both.
oh my god thats so fucking true, being sad literally makes no sense
Maybe for American horror. Many Japanese horror movies work on a psychological level with no scary soundtrack. And not talking about American adaptions. The OG Japanese movies.
There's some TH-cam vids that cover this. Pretty interesting to see how different cultures write and direct horror movies.
@@Frosch1220 what
@@lilyp2216 if ur sad ab something imagine funny music and youll see its just funny
Plus, I imagine “someone’s behind me and I didn’t hear them” is just so normal for so many deaf/hoh folk that it doesn’t really startle them much anymore in public!
Hoh tuah
@cemernater Be quiet man.
Even if it IS luchador satan
@@cemernaterhoh tuah
@asdfj.4293 hear on that thang
I'm a scare actor and we're told about hearing impaired customers specifically. It doesn't make sense to scream at them. Instead we try to get way more animated as characters and assure they can see us trying to screw with them - less worries about snarling and growling or screaming, more focus on looking as strange or unsettling as possible. That being said, I'd love to learn ASL to interact with customers when we get them
You bout to be spelling out “boo” and “haha gotcha” 😂😂
i hope you return to tell stories throughout the spoopy season
That'd be amazing! I'd love to hear stories as the spooky season continues
I’m also a scare actor and I used to use very simple asl to communicate to people coming to the haunt. My character was mostly mute so I pretty much entirely used visually unsettling things to scare people. (Except the occasional scream in someone’s face while they talked to me or banging on the metal portapotty when someone was inside)
genius l, you can then do hand signs behind their back very suddleny and scare them by it
That was cool of him to switch it up with visuals without touching you after he realised you were deaf! Very clever and considerate!
I would’ve worn a shirt saying “I’m Deaf. Try to scare me.” It would become a fun challenge.
Lol he doesn't discriminate he will scare anyone 😂❤
I recommend going to the factory of terror in Ohio. They can touch and stuff but it’s not obscene or anything like that one guy who was arrested recently.
@@leafyten2253 honestly pretty weird for a stranger to do this at all but ok. Lol
The bar is in hell 😂😂😂
The fact that he still was trying while you are literally signing is hilarious 😂
I think he was trying to get in her peripheral vision to startle her, he wasn't making any noise
loll, if this makes sense, i can feel/sense other people's presence before I know they're genuinely there, I'm surprised she didn't feel his breathing !😭
I don't understand. It didn't seem like they made any noise that could be perceived over the loud screaming anyways?
He did make a snorting sound
Not all people that use sign language are deaf……..
There are particular frequencies of sound that humans can endurance anxiety. This sounds make us feel anxious of something dangerous nearby or something bad about to happen.
Yes that's true. That frequency is also used to keep people from where they're not supposed to go. Like say a cave in the middle of nowhere.
As a scare actor, this is so true. You get a code yellow real quick if you scream in someone’s face.
Code yellow took me wayy too long to understand lmao
@@yoyoyoyo-lq4jbu helped me understand 😂
@@yoyoyoyo-lq4jbstill don’t understand lol
@@internetperson6424 pee
@@internetperson6424 code yellow means someone wet their pants
The lack of sound throughout the majority of Hush is what honestly makes it so much scarier. It puts you in the perspective of the victim.
Yup. It was incredibly unsettling, especially from her position as a deaf woman, alone in a remote area and unable to hear where the guy trying to hurt her is.
This is such a good example of it, too!! He clicks his teeth shut and that makes a sound, it would have startled most people, but.. because you couldn't hear him, you didn't even notice!
I like how he finally realized she was deaf, and waved his hand in front of her. 😂
I think she thought somebody was just standing really close because she slightly looked over like 😟 before realizing
Yes that was indeed the point of the video
@@cornpandleI thought the same. She looked like she was aware Someone was near. Just not an actor
I think horror is often just the punishment of curiosity.
Snarling from behind --> Searching instinct --> Not what you think it is, but worse...
Sight too. My BFF has been blind since birth. We took her to a Halloween Amusement Park and had to explain 99% of every scary/spooky thing there. 😂
YES! I'm visually impaired after losing my vision a couple years ago, and my first time in a haunted trail again was hilarious. It wasn't until halfway through that they realized I needed to have the audio based jump scares amped up. They told me after that they'd never had a louder walkthrough 😂
Sight yes, hearing no.
Oh I think I would be way more scared hearing the sounds and feeling people near me but not being able to see anything!! In fact, that's usually the scariest part of haunted forest type things for me....the part BEFORE you see anything
If youre a scare actor who wants to make sure deaf ppl get a little scared too, i would advise just jumping rlly hard on the floor a few times to unease them. theyll feel the vibrations. Also run in front of them to jumpscare them, and in between hallways
That makes a lot of sense, especially in combination with someone else’s comment about how for hearing people, the sound of the actor in this video clicking his teeth together would have been the startling moment. So something like a slight vibration in the ground unexpectedly close to them might replicate that same feeling
I work at a haunted house and my whole job is I dress as a plague doctor and jump down in front of people from the ceiling while someone zip lines above them and I’m constantly told I’m the best room in the house because I do a mix of everything. Plus nobody expects someone to just fly above you and then see someone drop and disappear 😂😂
Letting them find you has also worked really well in my experience-- crouching real low in the corner and then twitching my head one way so the movement catches their eye usually gets a good scream xD
@@garf7298amazing
I love the idea of a running jump and landing from behind. That doesn't need any sound to knock you off your feet from the vibrations.
Fun fact! Theres a specific frequency used in horror films that triggers the brain to have anxiety (this might not be entirely accurate because i learned this a long time ago) they discovered the frequency because a fan in an office space was broken and making that noise and it caused people in that area to miss work because of those symptoms. When they finally discovered the cause of it a horror producer put it in his film and it was pretty successful
Yea I’d like to sit in my room and listen to frequency’s just to find the one that makes you loose bowel control.
@@joej3365 i think that frequency can be found in the dairy isle
@@maureenkelly7771 more like at the bottom of a cup of coffee.
@@joej3365 or.. a cup of joe…(i had to)
@@maureenkelly7771 got eeem 😂😂😂
Years ago I learned that: fear gets through you by the ear. Horror movies without sound are nothing. The use of sharp sounds or ultrasonic are the ones that creeps you. Its something evolutionary 😂
Watch hush really good movie and the most intense parts are completely silent
Tell that to the scene in Buffy where... she finds her mom
this is why i prefer psychological horror/thrillers and when they don’t rely on jump-scares and sharp sounds. im unfortunately a movie plot predictor so jump-scares are just annoying. “i saw that coming a mile away”
or the quiet place @@hannahhowland3203
A Quiet Place to me was also really good. They used sound but I feel like they were quiet in the scenes they needed to be to get a good scare. It is still reliant on sound though
That's right. Sounds play a huge role in a scary movie. Have you ever watched "insidious" with the volume down? It's not scary at all.
NOBODY EVER KNOWS THAT MOVIE OMG I LOVE YOU SO MUCH NOW❤❤❤
Insidious is not scary.
Hey, I’m a scare actor who’s also currently trying to learn ASL! Do you have any tips for how to give Deaf/HoH people a good scare experience (while still being respectful, of course)?
Oooh! I also want to know the answer! ✋ I always wanted to make a non gore horror game that plays off fears people have, and I want those who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing to enjoy the game too!
I love that scare acting is a job! I hope you get an answer, I’ll comment for the algorithm
hi!! i volunteer at a deaf-run scare house and am learning asl!! i would say so long as there are visuals, perhaps jumping out really fast, or vibrations they can feel (ie slamming a desk/wall) you could get them really good!!
Sign "boo" when you scare Deaf or HoH people
There's a deaf school in I believe Portland Oregon that puts on a fully ASL haunted house around Halloween, you might be able to find videos of their stuff online.
Your face when you finally understand what's going on is priceless ❤️ my mother is deaf I definitely want to try this with her 😂😂😂😂
Oh my goodness, you're right! wonder if there is any media with deaf/hoh main characters in the horror genre?
The movie “Hush” is an example.
@@austinowensby9192 Thank you! I'll put it on my to-watch list!
a quiet place
A Quiet Place is fabulous! ❤️🔥
@@austinowensby9192 I loved the characterization in hush! It's not a slasher though, which is my favorite horror subgenre :(
They use infrasounds which are bellow our hearing range so even though we can't hear them, we can sense them and they send us goosebumps due to our reflexes from our ancestors 😅
Learned that in music theory
This is the exact reason why I wear earplugs to ANY haunted house or live horror-type experiences. I went to my first haunted house without some and nearly had a panic attack. Now I just sail through them and enjoy the artistry and efforts everyone had put into it all. Occasionally someone can still scare me when I don’t see them first, but luckily it’s much more manageable with the earplugs.
Ngl why go to a haunted house then? The whole point is to be scared asf. If it’s not scary anymore why pay money to go? I work in a haunted house and you have to sign a waiver to go in and we don’t allow earplugs or lights or phones or anything because people like to take advantage of that kind of thing.
But as a scare actor I just wanna know what is appealing about a haunted house where you’re not getting scared?
@@garf7298i think there’s a difference between getting scared and having a panic attack. Some people just want a little thrill, not too much.
@blastypie right, that's what the other person is saying, why go to a haunted house if the experience may give you a panic attack? They're not judging, just curious as to the thought process behind it
@@garf7298 as an autistic, I can say part of the reason I wear earplugs is so that I can participate in an activity just like everyone else. It makes me feel included instead of left out.
Without earplugs, I can get sensory overload and then it is quite miserable. With them, I might not get the “full” experience, but I get some experience that is enjoyable. For me, it is all about inclusion. And also enjoying other stimuli: like visual stimuli, the art, the decor, the acting, the smells, the atmosphere… The experience has more aspects than just sound
@@garf7298 it’s still scary in a way that my anxiety and diagnosed ptsd can handle better. I tend to have sensory issues with loud noises as I was going deaf as a kid and had to have corrective surgeries. Still have a ton of sensitivity to sounds though. I like the scary scenes and visual jumps and scares when they blow air puffs on you, but the loud sound mixed with the overly stimulating scenarios sometimes send my nervous system into more of a spiral than I can physically control, so I regulate with earplugs.
I applaud the scare actors though. Too many of my friends who work haunts have been assaulted, so I understand the strict rules for the crowds they draw.
It's very true. I was a projectionist for a movie theater a loooong time ago(like 10 years) back in the day when movies were all 35mm movies, like actual reels. One of the things i needed to check constantly was if a reel was put together right. For explanation it came in pieces of approximately 5/6 reels that we then put together with special tape.
But sometimes you would mistape and a frame could be suddenly half top half bottom. So we did checks. There were some horror movies that i would watch from the backroom without sound on. They are absolutely not scary at all without sound. Which is hilarious.
I learned this while playing horror pc games. Little to no jump scares when your headphones aren’t on LOL
Man I love horror games I wish they made more for console. I could probably afford a nice pc but I heard you have to update the expensive graphics card every so often
I like playing horror games in the dark with my headset in it be fun af
@@SumOneSomewhereslay the princess (a horror visual novel) is releasing on console this October! (They have already been on pc for a bit, but the game will have expanded content released alongside the console release, and the console game will include this expanded content, while for pc players it’s a free dlc to the basegame)
It’s less jump-scare heavy though, (I think there’s only like, two or three in the game currently, though there may be some in the expanded content?), it’s more existential and cosmic horror, with some great body horror in the visuals too!
Definitely true af sound is extremely important to horror it’s the number 1 thing you need to get right. As a kid I couldn’t play horror games by myself unless I turned the volume off 😂
I live here In Salem OR and the school of the deaf puts on like the BEST haunted house
It’s called nightmare factory!
They probably just is exactly how to creep people out in a visual kind of way which is stressful to think about 😂
I too am from Salem, OR and can vouch for Nightmare Factory being the BEST!!! ❤
when i get scared during horror movies, i always cover my ears and they are instantly not scary HAHA love this perspective!!
When I was younger and watching scary videos I would turn down the volume so I wouldn’t be as nervous anymore
I'm sorry, but that reaction when you realised they were behind you was so sweet and wholesome❤ I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I just think you were so nice about it. Puts a smile on my face😊
😂 The perfect demonstration
as a scare actor I do think the industry needs more acknowledgment of hard of hearing people and their engagement with haunted attractions! i’ve had two people who I believed to have been deaf (they were signing briefly to the people they were with and didn’t react to any noises happening) come through the haunted maze I worked in this year and I mostly just try to focus on visual scares for the few seconds they had going past me but I do think it’s something that could be covered more in training for sure!
This is why it's so important to build atmosphere in other ways! We rely far too much on sound in horror the same way we do on jumpscares. We need more media in horror that focuses on the actual Looks of horror and how to make someone feel uncomfortable without blaring noises in their ears.
Agreed! I love sound design, but relying too much on one sense can make horror inaccessible.
I've noticed that flickering lights also tend to be utilized a ton in horror media, especially games, which can become problematic for anyone with viewing sensitivities.
I hope you got to experience A Quiet Place while at Halloween Horror Nights! So cool that all the actors learned ASL! What an incredible accessibility win for an incredible movie!
The irony of this happening while shes talking about how scares rely on sound is just perfect
I went to Knotts scary farm one time,with my bestie and her dad . First thing we did was go through a maze. And this werewolf dude came up behind me and snarled in my ear and I freaked tf out and flailed and accidentally hit him in the face,and I felt something wet and legit lost my shit and started crying and screaming..and they had to escort me back with a flashlight 😂😂😂 to this day I get the ick when I hear snarling
That’s why I love horror nights though. So much fun watching everyone else get scared while practically immune.😂😂😂😂😂
There's this thriller called Hush, and it's about a deaf woman in the woods trying to escape from a man trying to break into her house. But obviously she was struggling because she couldn't hear him. One of the most on-edge cinema experiences i've ever had
Agreed
True. Noises are the only warning you may get before disaster. That's why many prey animals have such good hearing. The ancient urge in us humans also just naturally reacts to loud or sudden sound as a potential attack, which is why it's a main component of horror 😅
Though as a hearing person, the sudden or prolonging lack of sound (any sense really) is absolutely terrifying.
Thats why i watch horror movie recaps on silent w/ subtitles before engaging with the actual movie (if at all lol). It gives my rational brain a chance to process the story before the sounds have a chance to trigger a visceral response. I also wear Loops earplugs to Halloween Horror Nights because the sounds would be too overwhelming. 😅 HHN is one of my husband's favorite things but i hate horror, so wearing Loops is how I manage to stay present with him through an experience he loves. Without them, I'd have to leave after the first haunted house 😅😅 (they also strangely make it easier for me to hear him talking amidst the hubbub) 100/10 would recommend for people with auditory sensitivities
Scary ❌
FREAKY ✅
Oh my word, as someone who's hard of hearing, I get jump scared constantly 🤣 Usually if someone (such as my mom or siblings) tries to get my attention and I can't hear them, they go from conversational to 1000 real quick and try to shout to get it, which ends up giving me a heart attack every time 💀💀
lol 😂 that’s funny deaf people could possibly be the most fearless individuals ever to exist on the planet
I don't know how widespread this is among haunt attractions, but my boss constantly reminds us that you can not scare everyone, but you can entertain everyone. Make 'em laugh!
When I watch movies and get scared I always plug my ears as a habit because the noises are the most scary part to me!
The sounds and music are EVERYTHING especially in a horror movie, I used to cover my ears to watch "the exorcist"...the music theme hunted me for a week!
I find these kind of thoughts so refreshing. It is so cool to think about how it is. I'm getting very hard of hearing and my vision is depleting so fast. I think it is from watching the android/iphone screen since it came in the market
That is why I love the movie "Hush". They still rely on sound but not as much
I love horror sometimes as well. Thank you Chrissy.
I’m currently working as a scare actor/performer. I’m mostly in shows but between we’re allowed to roam and scare people (as long as we are where we need to be on time). When I’m roaming I tend to rely more on visually being unsettling than making the creepy sounds. It’s just easier for me to do and less common- Being double jointed in a few places with 16 years of dance training means instead of a screaming banshee they get the amusement park equivalent of the girl from the ring skittering at them on the ground and bending backwards to keep eyes on target. I have used sound-based scares before but it’s mostly to just get me out of rough situations with patrons- people don’t expect the silent one to scream
Huh. As a hearing person, even if I didn't hear him, that would have scared the crap out of me 😂
Lol I definitely do I was terrified of even the rinkiest dinkiest haunted houses even the one that was put on by the eighth graders at our school, which we were forcedly herded through, and yes, closing your eyes theoretically saves you from a jump scare but closing your ears by plugging them with your fingers and not hearing the creeping discordant notes, the suspenseful music stings, the Constant screaming and sudden shouts, makes it a lot more comical 😅 if only AirPods existed back then, playing some ABBA or something would've really saved me I think
She is so damn cute
My mom is missing an eye and I was walking on her good side and at frightfest at 6 flags a clown was on her blind side, I saw and trying not to laugh i said hey mom look and she looks at him and said oh hello. The man was so disappointed, got a zombie to check his breath later on. Still very fond memories, she was trying to help my brother not be scared but also ended up seriously wounding some ego’s. She also popped out her prosthetic eye once or twice when they were being obnoxious getting too close or wouldn’t leave us alone. Best mom ever. (I still feel bad about the clown I was trying to help him out he was following us for a good while 😅 mom felt bad too, he was really trying and being respectful about it, those are the best kinds of scare-ers)
I love it.
Even with Ci just turn the sound off
Something I've never thought about before
Thank you for sharing about the awareness or that subject.
It was nice they actually did that for you though , making you jump to make you feel part of it all. 😀
Haha this is so funny cause the scare actor is showing horror without sound. They do this to people all the time, quietly stand behind them closely until they realize or then get really close out of no where to scare you and depending on the character a lot of times they don’t make any sounds
Can we give the actor a round of applause for not defaulting to physical touch like 95% of people do when they realize someone's deaf?
Yes, i know theyre trained not to touch, but it would have been super easy to forget that in the moment. Give that person their goddamn props lmao
This is why my haunt was actually taught *not* to linger too long and rely on noise, but to come in from an angle, back out quickly and rely more on the fact that humans are most terrified by things that look like they *should* be human but aren’t quite right.
It’s true!
I always appreciate my mom pointing this out to me when I was younger. So wild just how much of an impact the sounds have on fear factor.
It’s probably why I’m more fan of the mental and eerie type of scary film. Like anxiety inducing
1000% percent true! That's why I mute the sound watching scary movies at home, totally lessens the fear. Also, I won't watch a scary movie at the theater anymore.
This is exactly why the movie Hush creeped me out so much and is sooo scary and horrifying to think about being a real situation someone would have to be in. It’s definitely interesting to try and imagine another persons perspective/interactions whatever it may be. It’s a thinker! Great video 🤗
I have sensory issues with sound so I often wear noise cancelling headphones, I was always the one sent first through haunted houses and I'd wave at the actors and smile while everyone behind me was freaking out lol I never knew why but now it makes sense
I once watched "It" with the volume down and fun summer music. I just wasn't scared that way😂
The psychology of sound is amazing
I remember when i took ASL in college, my professor recommended some Deaf horror movies, so good!!!
So true, that’s why I used to play Doom back in the day with the sound off! Scary monster sounds freaked me out! Thanks for the video!
I'm a woman with an abled body and only suffer from invisible disability. I always, always look back when I walk at night on the street with or without street lights. I wonder what our fellow deaf and mute women do to protect themselves. It's 2024, and in the perfect world, no one should feel unsafe walking on the street. Insightful video clip.
It's so funny that you're literally talking about that in that moment and then BAM...Living proof!!!
That's perfect!
My parents always told me to mute the tv if I'm scared watching horror. It could even turn it comedic
“Mama a girl behind you”
Ive worked haunted attractions since i was a child.
Wed get so many deaf customers every season. Multiple large groups, sometimes multiple groups in a single day.
Ive worked outside managing and entertaining the line and crowd, and learned some basic sign language to explain basic line commands like "please move forward", or "turn around", but i also learned some other phrases like "i can smell your blood", or "im going to follow you home. See you tonight".
Our haunts didnt rely entirely on sound. We used textures, scents, tons of visual gags, etc. We had rooms where youd be standing in an inch of water while sparks shot from the ceiling, or youd walk into a swamp and smell fish, cedar wood, and other earthy scents.
Sound played a roll, but it was mostly there to set ambience and drown out other scenes and screams.
Her “oh hello” was almost everything to me. Wayyyyy braver than me.
It’s the music and the dramatic sound effects that get me. So any scary scene that comes up, I just block my ears 😭 done that since I was little and still works to this day 🥴
Her hand movements when she saw him made her look like a princess 😭
Aww, she was very sweet about the situation. She has a great sense of humor.
So true. When I was growing up I'd turn the sound down or off on scary movies and it made them way more bearable. I also easily found the scary movies that actually good plots versus the ones that were just jumpscares the whole time. Like "hide n seek" was actually a genuinely good thriller movie
Mythbusters did a thing years ago about different sound frequencies and how they can affect our emotions and whatnot. They tried they typical horror sounds, and it obviously got ppl, and they also did relaxing frequencies which had the opposite effect(as one would expect.) I forgot how it ended, but it's worth a watch if you're interested in learning the bacis of sound frequencies from Mythbusters.
That would make a terrific horror film!😮 imagine with impaired hearing you'd think it'd be harder to escape the villain but then the deaf one ends up using all of her other senses to finally overpower the killer and survive. I'm not into the true horror films, but I'd definitely go to see that movie!
THIS IS SO FUNNY!! But also I totally get this! I love seeing how horror movies turn from real scary to the most mediocre fear level when you take out the suspenseful, eery, violin
Her turning around and laughing was gold
So true, sometimes when I’m getting really freaked out I turn the sound off and all I experience is watching someone walking down a corridor really slowly 😂
I am a deaf person and this is amazing lmao
A completely silent old-school style horror movie would be the shit
Sight too lol. I once lost my contacts in a house of horror and I couldn’t see any of the scary faces or really tell what was going on because it was so dark lol. Fears were all gone after that lol
Absolutely. If I’m ever over-scared I plug my ears. Works well.
Yes!! Scariest part of horror movies to be is the tension filled music before jump scares!
I love how she politely tried to act slightly scared
SHES SOOO PRETTY??????????!?!??!?!
The best part is she's not wrong. Consider the following. Dead Space is notorious for being one of the most paranoia inducing video games in the hrror industry, and that's because there's a tone being played at just the right hertz that it can't really be perceived consciously, however our brain is being exposed to that sound which induced this state of paranoia and fear during gameplay.
This is soooo true, went to a haunted house attraction once, all the fear factor was in the sounds alone!!! The animatronics were cool, I enjoyed the experience but the sounds were what probably scared ppl the most... It was startlingly loud! Glad I covered my ears first while entering, then as I got used to it I walked through the entirety of it without covering my earsss
So true. If you just turn the sound down or off during scary scenes; it drops fear factor from 10 to like a 2or 3.
Where are you? It looks so cool there during spooky season🍁😩🎃
True that sound plays a big role in horror, but lack of sound is just as terrifying if not more.
I've felt more fear from silent or quiet tone horrors than scream-scare horror. It's harder to come out of cause, with sound there is a search for explanation or information or uncovering, but without sound you're left with nothing. No clues, no cues, no alerts, no information, just nothing and that's more terrifying cause you can never know what's coming or when it's coming, so you're left with a constant sense of unease
That was the perfect example 😂❤ love it !
Posting to my horror groups...love it!!! Respect, thankyou for sharing🤟👈
She is beautiful x
I always close my ears when I go into the haunted houses! It’s the sound that scares me everytime!
I too am a scare actor who has once unknowingly attempted to scare someone who was hearing impaired, rather unsuccessfully 😂
Scariest gaming moment ever was walking in the clock hall in RE1 with the crows "cawing."
This is why I love the walking dead episode with Connie! It’s genuinely so scary but there’s very little use of sound.
Bro being a scare actor is so fun, i just started recently :>