Peter Strickland’s ‘Berberian Sound Studio’, the highly acclaimed and unsettling film about a sound engineer creating noises for a trashy horror flick, has been called a horror film as well as an anti-horror film. When you missed the premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival, your next chance to see it will be at FrightFest in London, before the film comes to the big screen on August 31 and hopefully soon after worldwide. To find out more and watch the new trailer,…
In the 1970s, Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy (Toby Jones), a shy and nondescript sound engineer from the UK is hired to mix the latest giallo film by horror maestro, Santini (Antonio Mancino) and he soon finds himself caught up in a forbidding world of bitter actors, capricious foley artists and confounding bureaucracy. The longer Gilderoy spends mixing screams and the bloodcurdling sounds of hacked vegetables, the more homesick he becomes for his garden shed studio in Dorking. His mother’s letters alternate between banal gossip and an ominous hysteria, which gradually mirrors the black magic of Santini’s film that Gilderoy is responsible for orchestrating. As both time and realities shift, Gilderoy finds himself lost in an otherworldly spiral of sonic and personal mayhem.
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Release Date: August 31, 2012 (UK, Ireland)
Country: UK
Language: English
Director: Peter Strickland
Author: Peter Strickland
Cast:
Toby Jones – Gilderoy
Tonia Sotiropoulou – Elena
Cosimo Fusco – Francesco
Susanna Cappellaro – Veronica
Layla Amir – Equestrian Girl
Antonio Mancino – Santini
Hilda Péter – Auditionee
Eugenia Caruso – Claudia
Fatma Mohamed – Silvia
Chiara D’Anna – Elisa
Lara Parmiani – Chiara
Guido Adorni – Giovanni
Katalin Ladik – Resurrected Witch
Kata Bartsch – Screamer
Jean-Michael van Schouwburg – The Goblin