A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Toby Jones | ... | Gilderoy | |
| Cosimo Fusco | ... | Francesco Coraggio | |
| Antonio Mancino | ... | Giancarlo Santini | |
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Fatma Mohamed | ... | Silvia as Teresa |
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Salvatore LI Causi | ... | Fabio (as Salvatore Li Causi) |
| Chiara D'Anna | ... | Elisa as Teresa | |
| Tonia Sotiropoulou | ... | Elena | |
| Eugenia Caruso | ... | Claudia as Monica / Screamer | |
| Susanna Cappellaro | ... | Veronica as Accused Witch | |
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Guido Adorni | ... | Lorenzo |
| Lara Parmiani | ... | Chiara as Signora Collatina | |
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Jozef Cseres | ... | Massimo |
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Pal Toth | ... | Massimo (as Pál Tóth) |
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Katalin Ladik | ... | Resurrected Witch |
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Jean-Michael van Schouwburg | ... | The Goblin (as Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg) |
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A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
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foley artist | sound recordist | sound recording | movie studio | casting couch |Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
31 August 2012 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Berberian Sound Studio: La inquisición del sonido See more »Filming Locations:
Three Mills Studios, Three Mill Lane, Bow, London, England, UKCompany Credits
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The title of the fictional studio refers to Cathy Berberian, the US soprano who married Luciano Berio, a pioneer of electronic music and a key influence on Strickland's film. See more »Goofs
At the very beginning of the film, Elena calls Francesco to announce Gilderoy's arrival at the studio. Although the film is set in Italy, when she picks up the phone a continuous dial tone is heard, which is normal for the US or UK; however, the actual dial tone would have sounded very differently in Italy, a country where the phone system has a very distinctive and non-continuous dial tone (consisting of a 425Hz tone with a duration of 0.6sec followed by a 1 second pause, followed by a 0.2 sec tone then a 0.2 sec pause, repeated in a loop until the first digit is dialed). See more »Quotes
Giancarlo Santini: Gilderoy, this is going to be a fantastic film. Brutal and honest. Nobody has seen this horror before.See more »
Crazy Credits
The opening credits are actually put together of those from The Equestrian Vortex, the fictional horror flick that's going to be post-dubbed in the movie, with fast-cut animations, medieval depictions of hell, demons, naves, animal skeletons and tortured female faces, mostly red and black colored. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Analog audio nerds and Fangoria contributing editors will love it, but for everybody else the surrealistic-horror-to-comedy balance is out of whack. Instead of being darkly amusing it's more often awkwardly dark -- with all their scrupulous attention to period detail and vintage equipment they should've sought some input on pacing and editing. The concept depends on a bunch of stereotypical Italians, specifically Italian exploitation movie folks, who straddle the line between fearsome and ridiculous, in a culture clash with the nebbishy unnerved Brit they've brought on to their diabolical mission. The trouble is that the protagonist just isn't comically fluent, so that even the rare bits of humor make him seem disturbing instead of disturbed. He's hilariously awkward when stabbing into fresh produce to make sound effects but dissonant for the purpose of obvious jokes such as the mundane letters he's shown reading from his mother. Nevertheless I was enjoying the first 60 minutes or so, before they went film school and gave up the ironic detachment for a psychedelic collage project (for that I could've just watched the real thing from Mario Bava or Dario Argento instead). Rather than restraining itself to the flavor of the genre this one wanders too deep into homage.