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1976: A timid soundf engineer from rural Surrey arrives in Italy to work on a mysterious horror film, mixing bloodcurdling screams with the grotesque sounds of hacked vegetables. But as the onscreen violence seeps into his consciousness reality and fantasy become blurred and the nightmare starts to awake. Daringly original and masterfully constructwed, this inspired homage to 70`s Giallo horror is a devastating assault on the eyes and brain, already being compared to the films of Imgmar Bergman and David Lynch.
Mild-mannered sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones, The Hunger Games, Captain America) arrives in Rome to begin work on the soundtrack to a film called The Equestrian Vortex, a tale of witchcraft and murder set inside an all-girl riding academy. Before long he finds himself entranced by the film`s mysteriously terrifying allure, and the lines between reality and fantasy begin to blur.
Now Gilderoy`s own mind has become the battleground between his horrifying delusions and his desperate grasp on the real world.
Tense, claustrophobic, and featuring a tour-de-force performance by Jones, Berberian Sound Studio is an electrifying portrayal of a man's descent into the darkest pit of madness.
Toby Jones