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Berberian Sound Studio ~ Film Review
Sometimes it is very difficult for us to determine what constitutes a horror film. Does it have to be scary? Does it need a certain level of gore? Obviously different things are scary for different people, so how can we classify a film?
What matters the most is the gut feeling a viewer has when watching a particular movie. Humans are capable of detecting levels of malice or the creations of horror. There is no true way to define it and I believe that Berberian Sound Studio captures that point immensely.
The film revolves around a short, lonely fellow called Gilderoy (Toby Jones) who happens to be a top-notch Foley artist. An Italian film company asks him to come to their studio to help produce a film called Equestrian Vortex. Gilderoy believes it is a movie about horses, which is in line with the educational movies he does at his home in the United Kingdom. The film turns out to be an Italian Giallo film, with copious amounts of torture and blood. Gilderoy is deeply affected by working on this intense horror film and begins to clash with the creepy, albeit lively, Italian crew. As the film goes on, it seems like Gilderoy’s own reality begins to blur with the movie he is working on.
What is so unique about this movie is the foundation it sets for horror films and movie making. The viewer is privy to…
