Rob Manuel

Look at the world of both film and indie games, and you'll find a startling similarity between the two when it comes to creating the perfect horror story. The tricks storytellers pull to make your blood run cold never change; a creaking floorboard, the eerie feeling of being watched, wandering into a world filled with unspeakable terror.

Businessman

James Marsden

It's hard enough to just be a good actor. When you're on set, there's everything going against you. There are walkie talkies going off, the camera is creaking and moving, there are boom mics, and you have to hit your mark and make sure you don't shadow the other person's face. It's a really technical process.

American Actor

Pierre Schaeffer

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

French Composer

Kate Christensen

Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

American Novelist

Edie Falco

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

American Actress

Michael Haneke

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

American Director

Nikos Kazantzakis

All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

Greek Writer

Kenya Barris

I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.

American Producer

Mukul Dev

A horror film does not rely on dialogues and music. It is the sound of creaking doors, the window banging open and the build-up that is not easy to achieve.

Indian Actor

Louis Gossett, Jr.

There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.

Use 'creak' to describe sounds from objects that are old or worn out.

Age or Deterioration

'Creak' often sets a mood in storytelling, suggesting suspense or fear.

Atmospheric Tension

'Creak' is an onomatopoeia, mimicking the sound it describes.

Onomatopoeic

The noun form often implies slow, reluctant movement of an object.

Indication of Movement

A 'creak' can be described as soft, loud, eerie, or sudden to convey different levels of intensity.

Intensity Variations

Used as a verb, 'creak' can describe a person's movement trying to be quiet.

Stealthy Movement

When describing motion, 'creak' enhances the tension of a scene or action.

Tense Atmosphere

 so funny on my first story I was you know one-room shack on top of a mountain Guatemala when I heard the stairs creaking at night and then I hear this scratching under the door and then and the hair on back my head stood I grabbed the radio and called down the mountain to juan carlos and they said in spanish

Proof: Steve Winter on...

 It was that sneeze in the back. It is the everyday soundscape that arises from the audience their coughs, their sighs, their rustles, their whispers, their sneezes, the room, the wood of the floors and the walls expanding and contracting, creaking and groaning with the heat and the cold,

Meklit Hadero: The...

 it creaks and groaned, made these really strange noises. And I remember when we were exploring it, I would look up into the ceiling and see TV sized rocks wedged up in the ice, half out, half in. Thinking to myself, I wonder how much protection my little thin helmet

Stunning Cave...

 kept treading -- treading -- till that Sense was breaking through -- And when they all were seated, a Service, like a Drum -- kept beating -- beating -- till I my Mind was going numb -- And then I heard them lift a Box and creak across my Soul

Depression, the secret...

 And I hear him turn on the faucet and pour himself a glass of warm tap water. And he puts the glass back in the sink. And I hear his footsteps. And they get slower as they get to my room. And he creaks my door open, like, mad-slow.

My journey from Marine...

 eight hours as we descend it gets darker and darker the deeper we go the greater the pressure on the outside of the Sun but we don't feel that inside just very occasionally we'll hear the acrylic sphere creaking under the strain

Journey 1000m Below The...

 This is the moment for the entire music industry to invest in supporting what is, without a doubt, its most valuable asset. Far too many songwriters out there are suffering in this creaking system.

Björn Ulvaeus: How music...

 its delicate body made of wood and gourds creaks and warps at the slightest change of temperature and humidity its tuning pegs all 20 of them held in place with nothing more than friction in a

Can you play the sitar?...

 it's like that so those you can grease it up you haven't had a creak slam in a while that makes a little a little faster one all the friction to be on the low end

How to Build a Bow Drill...

 oh here they come the rice is on I can't get out the door creaking back