9 Subversive Horror Movies That Aren't What You Expect

For how often movies rely on dialogue to tell their stories, Beberian Sound Studio shirks all responsibility that stems from talking through its narrative, instead relying on strange soundscapes and an uneasy atmosphere to deliver its premise rather than tried and tested means. Following a man tasked with creating the sound effects for an Italian Giallo movie - which he initially just believed to be a nice old movie featuring horses - the project begins to take an unprecedented toll on his mental state, making for some weird experiences as he attempts to finish his work.

Berberian Sound Studio takes the classic workings of a movie and puts them front and centre, hiding the actual film from sight as we watch Gildeory put all the parts together into an invisible whole. Instead of getting a story slowly play out as a conventional film within a film, its machinations within machinations, with the creepy atmosphere and disturbing feeling far more important than visuals alone.

Sound is always an important part of a horror movie, but interestingly, this makes it the only part.