The resolutely excellent
Toby Jones stars as Gilderoy, a British film sound man in the 1970's, hired out of his comfort zone of wildlife documentaries to work on an Italian Giallo. Despite some early promise and a nice tip of the hat to
Argento on more than one occasion - black gloved POV shots of sound dials being turned, a Goblin character, and the horror movie's plot centering on witches in a horse academy - it tailed off into massive self indulgence and incomprehension. In fact I really don't know what the bloody hell was going on for the entire second half of the film, and ultimately it degenerated into an irritating mess, which was disappointing as I had earmarked it as one of the more interesting sounding movies (no pun intended) from the get go! A highly appealing idea reduced to an inexplicably confusing muddle. Not good at all.
M.I.F.F. Rating 1 out of 5.
IMDB:
Berberian Sound Studio
