Sounds Like

Name: Sounds Like
Genre: Horror
Released: 2006-11-17
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Chris Bauer, Matty Finochio, Laura Margolis

Episode aired Nov 17, 2006
TV-MATV-MA
58m

S2.E4

Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.

6.2/10

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Director
- Brad Anderson
Writers
- Mick Garris
- Brad Anderson(teleplay)
- Mike O'Driscoll(short story)
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Chris Bauer and Laura Margolis in Masters of Horror (2005)

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Larry Pearce is a dour office worker in a phone answering company who is having problems getting over the recent death of his young son from a rare brain disorder. Larry's grief has somehow triggered his acute sense of hearing 20-fold which he can hear a whispered conversation from hundreds of feet away. But his ability soon affects his sanity as he learns he cannot control it and all efforts to block out sound are futile, which puts a strain on his long-suffering wife Brenda, who unlike him, cannot stand quiet. As as result, Larry's slow slide into insanity because of his gift/curse of sensitive hearing and inability to deal with the grief of the loss of his son, leads to more tragedy for all involved. —Anonymous

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Goofs
When talking to the shrink, Larry says he monitors 531 conversations a day, then says "that's 2,655 times a day...". He should have said 2,655 times a week.

Connections
Referenced in Unique Congratulation (2014)

Soundtracks
Foetus Of a New Day Kicking
performed by Cradle of Filth

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7/10

An interesting episode

Sound. Thats the key subject of this episode. A lot of different sound techniques are used throughout to enhance and show the aural assault the protagonist is subjected to on a daily basis.

He has ultra-sensitive hearing with such little things like knitting or kids skipping enhanced to a deafening level. Something is eating away at him and much like in The Machinist it starts to effect his everyday life.

Thankfully Anderson does not ape his previous classic (too soon to call it a classic?) and the story wanders a different path. Wandering is the only fault with the episode though, spending too much time showing different sounds driving Chris Bauer's character mad rather than progressing the story. Still a similar dark atmosphere is created throughout and carries through to the last shot of the movie.

Worth watching.

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