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Locarno Review: With an Impressively Creepy Turn by Toby Jones, 'Berberian Sound Studio' Is an Enticing Audiovisual Enigma

Toby Jones plays the Brit in Italy who's in over his head in Peter Strickland's twisted tribute to analog filmmaking and ''70s Italian Giallo horror flicks.

Set in an Italian movie-sound lab circa the '70s, Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio takes audiences into an unsettling world where life imitates art ...

Set in an Italian movie-sound lab circa the '70s, Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio takes audiences into an unsettling world where life imitates art ...

‘Berberian Sound Studio” reminded me of the time my friend Daniela walked out of “The Shining.” “I can’t take it anymore. It’s too scary,” sh...

In Peter Strickland’s “Berberian Sound Studio,” a shy British sound engineer tries to keep his sanity while working on the soundtrack for an Italian ho...

In Peter Strickland’s “Berberian Sound Studio,” a shy British sound engineer tries to keep his sanity while working on the soundtrack for an Italian ho...

The line between fiction and reality starts to blur when a British foley artist works on an Italian “giallo” film called The Equestrian ...

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Berberian Sound Studio A delicately detailed immersion into the world of Z-grade Italian horror cinema that ultimately may or may not be a horror film itself...

Those with a flair for the offbeat might find themselves unnerved and riveted by this film starring Toby Jones.