BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO ONLINE MOVIE

Long periods of silence are punctuated by the sudden clatter of analog studio equipment springing into action. Strickland is just as meticulous as Lynch at creating unsettling atmosphere, often - appropriately enough in a film about a sound engineer - with his soundtrack. The director may be overtly paying homage to Italian greats like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, but it's the likes of David Lynch and David Cronenberg whose influence help make it truly scary. The terror Strickland is looking to inspire isn't the kind that shocks or startles it creeps up, digs its claws into our insecurities, and attempts to quietly drown us in our own anxieties.

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO ONLINE MOVIE

Toby Jones plays Gilderoy, a British sound man who's just arrived at the titular facility to work on creating the soundscape for The Equestrian Vortex, a bloody tale of horse-riding, witchcraft and gruesome killings.īut no image from that movie within the movie is ever shown on screen, and while giallos are defined by their gruesome violence, Berberian Sound Studio has none of its own. Strickland sets his story in Italy in the 1970s, at the height of that country's boom in giallo cinema - pulpy, gory, lurid murder mysteries made on the cheap, with the sound often sloppily added in during post-production rather than on set.

It's also a movie about horror films themselves, and it accomplishes the tricky task of paying homage to one type of scary movie while indulging in an entirely different style itself. Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio is one horror film that opts to skip the usual frolic among those metaphorical monsters in favor of a deeply unsettling dive into the subconscious.

Horror films are filled with the things that nightmares are supposedly made of: monsters, madmen, murder, assorted blood and guts.īut those are really just the props of nightmares - representations of the psychological terrors that really plague us: our fears about mortality, isolation, abandonment and failure.

With: Toby Jones, Susanna Cappellaro, Antonio Mancino

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