Pattern Recognition

using sound to scare at the movies

Pattern Recognition — Plot

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?

• Release date
• December 1, 2017
• Runtime
• 8 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Daniel Cockburn

Pattern Recognition — Cast

Daniel Cockburn Self (voice) Gene Hackman Self (archive footage) Daniel Kaluuya Self (archive footage) John Travolta Self (archive footage)