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.
The Last of Us covers this well.
Joel mentioned that he has very bad hearing in his right ear due to shooting. Then he gets snuck up on when sleeping the wrong way (bad ear up).