Fresh
While it's a loving homage to movies like Dario Argento's Suspiria and is crafted with tons of style, it leaves out one key ingredient: being even remotely scary.
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · 1h 32m
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Peter Strickland
Overview
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
Radishes, cabbages and melons meet horrific ends in Berberian Sound Studio, a down-the-earhole psychodrama where what you hear is more terrifying than what you see.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
Writer/director Peter Strickland intriguingly weaves into the story a movie-within-a-movie that we barely see, but we hear.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
A sometimes interesting, sometimes head-scratching movie that pays homage to the old ways of the sound mixing world and to the "giallo" genre of horror that was prominent in Italy during the 1970s.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
[It] not only exploits one of cinema's most important modes, it also attempts something more difficult: turning a genre movie into a work of art.
Peter Keough, Boston Globe
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