Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Better Late Then Never

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Was all excited after watching the trailer but the movie turned out to be a piece of art . I guess I lacked the intelligence or patience to enjoy it. Kept on waiting till something will happen and the god damn movie ended!!!! Have created the account just to write review for this movie.. Please avoid.. If you are looking for a horror movie then this movie is not.. If you are looking for a thriller this movie is not.. The only positive is the sound of this movie..A pretty decent sound director..I must write ten lines..looks like writing a review here is also equally exciting as the movie was..may be this is my last and first review..So dear future readers please avoid this movie..watching a news channel with weather discussion will give u the same thrill.Avoidddddd

Never to return. The look of Berberian Sound Studio is gorgeous and the sound is marvellous, but the script goes nowhere. If the film had kept things simple, a man overcome by his immersion into the horror of exploitative giallo, then the film would have been a marvel, but the plot unravels (yes, reflecting the central character's state of mind, etc.) to the point that you regret the time investment you have made in watching it. Indeed, while probably very deep and surreal, the last quarter of the film just seems as if the script wasn't finished when production was greenlit and no ending was conjured before the final day of shooting. I have no problem with oblique endings (Lost Highway is fabulous), but this just dwindles away, which is a shame given the earlier promise. Sometimes just telling a story is all that is required, and Berberian Sound Studio just needed to do that.

Berberian Sound Studio seems to gather inspiration from the Italian giallo films of the 1970's without actually being one itself. The film centers around an English sound engineer called Gilderoy who travels to Italy to work on the soundtrack of a horror/giallo film. During his stay he looses grip on reality. The most admirable aspect of Berberian Sound Studio is that it uses the giallo style of film making to tell a story that is outside the original scope of the genre. The story is fluid and the viewer is kept in a constant state of uncertainty. In place of garish colors that giallo films regularly employed, Berberian Sound Studio uses sound to create a thick-as-a-pound-cake atmosphere. An extremely unsettling film (if you're patient). 9/10

A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.This is the sort of film that jaded horror fans will love. They will love that it was set in the realm of an Italian giallo in the 1970s (one of the most highly regarded subgenres during their finest decade). They will also love the variety of sound effects and how they are accomplished.Some have compared the plot to "Evil Ed", which is fair, but it is not remotely derivative and should not be seen as a ripoff. If anything, I felt the mood was much closer to "Pontypool", one of the best horror films of the past decade.Most fascinating is that while the action takes place during the editing phase of a movie, the film itself is never seen. Not a single frame. We pick up bits and pieces about priests and witches, but really have no idea how terrifying the images are -- it is all sound effects and imagination. Just brilliant.