Closest I’ve seen to this being done was the movie Black Hawk Down. Meanwhile can you imagine everyone screaming at each other in the John Wick films? Other movies like Aliens would have been a whole different level of horrifying as the sound fades away until its just the sound of the actor’s muffled heart beat and their cluelessness that the xenomorph is crawling up behind them.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle
Wait, other people can’t do that?
Nope, you and the rest are just a bunch of mutants with actually useful mild super powers.
ah so they’re indeed a bunch of mutants 😀