Fans wanting to catch Toby Jones‘s acclaimed horror Berberian Sound Studio have only days left to watch it for free on Channel 4.
The 2012 movie, which focuses on a sound designer working in a 1970s Italian film studio, recently aired on the broadcaster before being added to the streamer.
However, the film is being removed in 6 days – so fans better get in quick.
Berberian Sound Studio centres on Gilderoy, a British sound designer who is hired to work on a giallo (Italian horror) movie, though is shocked by the violence in the movie. As the atmosphere and studio pressure ramps up, he resorts to increasingly sadistic means.
The Peter Strickland movie sits at an impressive 85% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Digital Spy predicting at the time that it was “destined to be a cult classic”, while The Guardian called it “seriously weird and seriously good” in their five-star review.
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“Utterly distinctive and all but unclassifiable, a musique concrète nightmare, a psycho-metaphysical implosion of anxiety, with strange-tasting traces of black comedy and movie-buff riffs,” they added.
“If you’re open to films that fearlessly twist the conventions, and that mine the language of sound and image for their own strange potential, you’ll get a kick from this rivetingly inventive, abrasively un-British piece of nightmare cinema,” added The Independent.
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The Irish Times further said Berberian Sound Studio “comes across like nothing else you’ve ever seen – or, more to the point, heard”, while Little White Lies suggested it was “the disorientating giallo [David] Lynch might have made”.
As well as Jones, the movie stars Tonia Sotiropoulou, Susanna Cappellaro, Cosimo Fusco and Katalin Ladik.
Berberian Sound Studio is streaming now on Channel 4.
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