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# The Sound of Dread, From Weapons to Dead Space [Podcast]
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/podcast/the-sound-of-dread-from-weapons-to-dead-space-podcast/
- Published: 2026-10-15T20:31:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T20:31:09.000Z
- Description: I ask Ryan Holladay and Jason Graves how dread gets built before the scare, and why a game score has to wait on a player in a way a film score never does.
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: Podcast, Horror, Composers, Soundtrack, Sound design, Dead Space, Resident Evil, until dawn, MUBI, #free-access, #slideshow

I sit down with two composers who make audiences flinch for a living. Ryan Holladay scored Zach Cregger's *Weapons* and this year's *Resident Evil* with his brother Hays. Jason Graves wrote the music for the original *Dead Space* trilogy, *Until Dawn* and *Still Wakes the Deep*. This is the first of Killscreen's [Cross-Conversations: Horror](https://www.killscreen.com/cross-conversations-horror-ryan-holladay-jason-graves/), three free talks presented with MUBI that put people who make horror films and horror games in the same room.

We start with Bluebrain, the location-aware album Ryan and Hays made for the National Mall in 2011, which grew out of the way sound changes as you walk through *Myst*. Jason explains how a drummer's background carried him through his first audition for EA and into *Dead Space*, and both of them trace the vocabulary horror still borrows from Penderecki, *Psycho*, *Jaws* and John Carpenter.

Then the difference between scoring a film and scoring a game: Wwise and FMOD, and stingers that have to wait for the player. Jason walks through The Rig, the metal sculpture Matt McConnell built for *Still Wakes the Deep*, and Ryan talks about *Abelina*, the game he is scoring now. We close on audience questions and the tools they actually use, from handheld recorders to iZotope RX and Ableton.

## Links

- [Scoring Fear: The Composers Behind Weapons and Dead Space](https://www.killscreen.com/cross-conversations-horror-ryan-holladay-jason-graves/), the event page
- [The Killscreen Horror Collection](https://www.killscreen.com/horror-collection/)
- [Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma on MUBI](https://mubi.com/killscreen?ref=killscreen.com), 30 days free

*Hosted by Jamin Warren. Music by* [*Nick Sylvester*](https://www.instagram.com/nicksylvester/?ref=killscreen.com)*.*