Saturday, 18 October 2025

Berberian Sound Studio

31 Days Of Horror

18: Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

My friends, we have reached the point where we get a fair number of horror films on TV for a couple of weeks!

A mild-mannered English sound engineer arrives in Italy and discovers the film he’s been hired to mix is an Argento-style giallo. (Not a horror film as the director insists, but all the sounds we hear and descriptions we get sure feel like one. Notably we never see any of it, except the title sequence.) And as he proceeds he starts to lose his grip on reality.

Anchored by Toby Jones’s performance, take out the surreal touches and it still works as a story of someone stuck in a position he wants to break out of.

The medium: Film4, who helped make it.

Gameability: A scenario about attempting to make a work of art under taxing conditions, maybe?

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