Pattern Recognition

To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle. Using sounds from Hollywood's best-known thriller and horror films, Cockburn makes familiar noises frightening and leaves us wondering... What's that sound? And why won't it stop?

• Daniel CockburnDirector

• Daniel CockburnSelf (voice)
• Gene HackmanSelf (archive footage)
• Daniel KaluuyaSelf (archive footage)
• John TravoltaSelf (archive footage)