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Cinematic Horror Sound Effects & Music

For Films, Games, Trailers & Digital Content

Bring your darkest ideas to life with our professionally designed horror sound effects and original music for filmmakers, game developers & content creators. Our carefully curated packs deliver cinematic ambience, terrifying stingers, unsettling transitions, creature vocals, and full musical cues, all cleared for commercial use and organised for a fast, intuitive workflow. Perfect for building tension, shaping atmosphere, gory scenes or delivering jump-scare impacts.

GET access to free packs on launch

Our first free packs will be Gore to the Floor which contains horrific splats, slop and spurting blood sounds among other gore sound effects, Snap, Crackle & Crunch for snapping bone sounds, crunching skulls and other horrendously painful sounding sound effects and The Unrested which is a collection of otherworldly supernatural horror sound effects and music.

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Meticulous detail

We obsess over every detail when crafting our horror sound packs, from the subtle creak of aging floorboards to the visceral snap of unseen terrors, ensuring each element feels real, textured, and immersive. Our approach blends evocative musical motifs with inventive recording techniques, capturing authentic sounds in unconventional spaces to heighten the tension and atmosphere. This meticulous process results in cinematic-quality sound effects and music recorded at high fidelity together with a variety of formats giving creators the power and flexibility to deliver unforgettable fear, suspense, and immersion.

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  • Cato Hoeben Composer // Sound Designer

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Licence summaries

When you buy one of our packs, you are purchasing a licence to use our sounds in your projects. You do not own the sounds nor is this a licence to resell or repackage our sounds in any way. Here’s an overview of how it works with a link to the full licence below – if anything is unclear, just reach out to us to discuss your questions:

Editions

Standard Edition

For students, hobbyists, freelancers, indie creators, and small studios. Use in projects with a total budget under £100,000. Covers most commercial and non-commercial work – online content, streaming, podcasts, indie games, and independent productions. Not for national broadcast TV, cinema release, national ad campaigns, or AAA games.

Extended Edition

For studios, agencies, and large productions. Unlimited use in projects of any budget, including film, TV, broadcast, theatrical, national advertising, and AAA games.

Pack Types

Hybrid Packs
// Music + SFX
Royalty-free for sound effects. Music beds are PRO-registered (PRS and affiliates) – cue sheets may be required. You may not register original music beds or stems with any PRO or rights management system unless they are transformed into a substantially new work.
SFX Packs
// Sound effects only
100% royalty-free. No PRO reporting required.
Music Packs
// Music only
PRO-registered (PRS and affiliates). Cue sheets must credit Hoeben Media Limited and the composer as listed in the example cue sheet included in downloaded packs. Original music beds or stems cannot be registered with a PRO unless incorporated into a new, substantially original work.

General Rules

✔ You can:

  • Edit, process, and use sounds in unlimited projects (within your Edition’s limits).
  • Release your projects worldwide, without extra fees.

❌ You cannot:

  • Resell, repackage, relicense, or share the raw sounds – original or modified.
  • Create your own sample packs or libraries from these sounds.
  • Use sounds or music as the main element of a standalone music track, release, or streaming single.
  • Extract loops, beats, or musical fragments to make new standalone works or remixes.
  • Upload music tracks to streaming platforms (e.g. Spotify, Apple Music) as standalone audio.
  • Claim authorship of the original content.
  • Use the sounds to train, feed, or develop AI or machine learning systems.

Licences are perpetual (use forever) and non-transferable (only you/your company can use them). The sounds must always stay embedded in your projects.
For further details, please visit the Licences page:
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