10 Great British Horror Films Of The Last Decade

4. Berberian Sound Studio

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Remember that fellow we mentioned earlier? Peter Strickland, the one who directed In Fabric, and also laid claim to two films on this list? Well this is that second film. A few years before helming In Fabric, Peter Strickland really broke onto the film scene with this psychological horror released in 2012.

In the film, reputable British actor Toby Jones plays Gilderoy, an English sound engineer in the 1970s who’s hired to work on a film in Italy. After taking the job presuming he was working on a film about horses, he’s surprised to learn that he will actually be working on an Italian Giallo film.

For the unacquainted, Giallo is a genre of horror thrillers that were often gruesome - and sometimes psychedelic - that came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s from Italy. Berberian Sound Studio capitalises on the weird this type of film brought to horror, but does so in an undeniably pleasing fashion.

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