Toby Jones' disturbing horror Berberian Sound Studio is now streaming for free after airing on Channel 4.
Directed by Peter Strickland, who also helmed freaky haunted dress horror In Fabric, Berberian Sound Studio is a homage to the Italian giallo of the 1960s and 70s.
The 2012 horror aired last night on Film4 and is now available to stream for free on Channel 4's own streaming platform.
Set in an Italian horror film studio in the 1970s, Berberian Sound Studio follows Jones' character Gilderoy, a British sound engineer on a giallo film directed by B-horror filmmaker Giancarlo Santini (Antonio Mancino).
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As he's shocked by the violence on the movie, Gilderoy is made to do some foley work to get the squelching, torturing sounds right by using an array of vegetables and everyday objects.
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The sound engineer gets swept up in the increasingly suffocating giallo atmosphere and cave to the studio's pressure, resorting to unsavoury, sadistic means to complete the project.
Berberian Sound Studio is currently Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a critics' consensus of 85%. Meanwhile, viewers haven't been equally captivated by the messed-up movie, which has a milder audience score of 53%.
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As polarising as it was, Berberian Sound Studio has been described as "nothing else you've ever seen – or, more to the point, heard" in a review by The Irish Times published back in 2012.
Meanwhile, The Guardian review likens the film to a paranoia-fuelled nightmare with Lynchian undertones that may just go too far, but it's "unshakeable" nonetheless.
Berberian Sound Studio is streaming on Channel 4.
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Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times and Digital Spy.
Her beats are horror films and period dramas, especially if fronted by queer women. She can argue why Scream is the best slasher in four languages (and a half).
