10 Weirdest Ideas Turned Into Horror Movies
6. Berberian Sound Studio
Far from your average horror movie, the best way to describe Berberian Sound Studio is ‘a horror movie without any horror’. Whilst paying tribute the to the fantastic Italian horror movies of the 1970s and 1980s, especially the strange ways they were made, Berberian Sound Studio presents a plot that’s drenched in pure psychological horror as the audience steps inside the mind of Gilderoy, as he slowly loses his mind whilst working on a very violent Italian horror.
In this movie, a lot of the ‘horror’ comes from Gilderoy’s own hallucinations and his increased violent streak due to the incredibly horrible images he has to witness every day, thanks to a director with very little restraint when it comes to violence and rampant misogyny.
The most interesting part of Berberian Sound Studio is that nothing is visual. It’s a horror movie where everything that invokes fear is pictured in the audience’s mind instead of pictured onscreen, accentuated by the use of sound cues and a very tense atmosphere. There isn’t a single scene of blood, there isn’t a single jump scare.
The movie uses the audience’s own imagination against them and forces them to imagine what Gilderoy is seeing - the twisted thoughts that manipulate his mind. It takes the idea of ‘the fear of the unknown’ and focuses on that idea to create a bizarre horror movie that is completely original in an arguably stale genre.