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Berberian sound studio online1/11/2024 Whether or not that affects your enjoyment and/or appreciation of BSS.I have no spoiler alert for that because I'm not your brain, sorry.įrom the moment Gilderoy (Toby Jones) arrives at Berberian Sound Studio, he is a man out of place. They'll take it! It's like as a people we learned nothing from the horrible mis-marketing of William Friedkin's Bug, which did a great disservice to the film and pissed off horror fans who were expecting.well, something scary, or at least horror-y.Īnd so here we are with Berberian Sound Studio, which is supposedly a "tribute to the giallo." Here we are with Berberian Sound Studio, wherein "A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art." I mean, if you go into Berberian Sound Studio with those seeds a-planted in your head, you would have certain expectations of the cinematic harvest, would you not? If so, well, spoiler alert, you're gonna experience some cognitive dissonance. "Thrillers" are expected to play out like this while "dramas" go like that.and if it's just some kind of mish-mash.eh, fuck it, throw it to the horror kids. The point is, surely it's a PR conundrum when a movie isn't plainly one thing or another. My understanding of the world of business is that it's pretty much just like D&D Advertising on Melrose Place. You sit around your big cherry wood table in your glass-walled conference room with your uneaten pastries and your padfolios and your potted plants in the corner, and then Amanda Woodward comes in and she's asking an awful lot of questions about your boyfriend Billy and it's so awkward, like is Amanda just trying to make you uncomfortable, you know, get in your head and psych you out, or does she really have designs on Billy? She's your boss and your landlord and you want to tell her off, but the personal risks are too great, and then you remember that time you were molested and also you realize that you have a stalker and. Dear marketing departments, will you ever learn? I know that sometimes a film will come along and it doesn't fit neatly into one-a-dem genre boxes.
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