10 Psychological Thrillers That Totally Messed With Your Head

Film relays messages and tells stories to its audiences via two key senses: sound and vision. By emphasising the significance of one of these, and taking the other largely out of the equation, Berberian Sound Studio forces to reassess our relationship with film, and - on a broader scale - our very senses themselves.

Writer-director Peter Strickland's 1970s-set film casts Toby Jones as Gilderoy, a very down to earth English sound engineer unwittingly summoned to an Italian film studio to provide the sound effects for a macabre horror movie.

Immediately uncomfortable with the nature of the film, Gilderoy finds himself gradually broken down by the gruesome content he is helping to produce - leading to an increasingly bizarre series of events which turn the whole film on its head.

Crucially, Berberian Sound Studio never allows us a glimpse of any footage of the film that Gilderoy is working on, leaving our imaginations to fill in the blanks - and there are certainly plenty of blanks to be filled in once we reach the truly head-scratching conclusion.