{"id":739778,"date":"2026-08-16T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739778\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:54:12","slug":"seriously-good-70s-set-horror-with-toby-jones-is-now-streaming-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739778\/","title":{"rendered":"“Seriously good” ’70s-set horror with Toby Jones is now streaming for free"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acclaimed horror film Berberian Sound Studio<\/a> is now available to watch for free on Channel 4’s streaming service, after airing on Film4 last week. Starring Good Omens’ Toby Jones, the 2012 movie is guaranteed to leave a big impression on you. <\/p>\n

Set in the 1970s, it centres on British sound designer Gilderoy, who takes a job on an Italian film, not knowing it is a giallo (a horror movie). Gilderoy is shocked by the film’s violence as things become more and more disconcerting and bizarre. <\/p>\n

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Written and directed by Peter Strickland, the film also stars Tonia Sotiropoulou, Susanna Cappellaro, Cosimo Fusco and Katalin Ladik. <\/p>\n

Berberian Sound Studio holds and impressive 85% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Guardian<\/a> calling it “seriously weird and seriously good”.<\/p>\n

They added: “Utterly distinctive and all but unclassifiable, a musique concr\u00e8te nightmare, a psycho-metaphysical implosion of anxiety, with strange-tasting traces of black comedy and movie-buff riffs.”<\/p>\n

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The Spectator<\/a> wrote: “I have never encountered anything quite so auditorily menacing… I promise you have never seen, or heard, anything like it, and Toby Jones’s performance is fantastically gripping.”<\/p>\n

The Salon<\/a> praised it as perhaps “the finest tribute to the old-school cinematic craftsmanship of the sound mixer and Foley artist I’ve ever encountered”.<\/p>\n

The Independent<\/a> 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.”<\/p>\n

While Digital Spy<\/a> correctly stated that the film was “destined to be a cult classic”, adding that Jones “delivers a hugely impressive turn as Gilderoy”.<\/p>\n

Berberian Sound Studio is streaming now on Channel 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After graduating with a degree in history from Queen Mary University, London, she studied journalism at Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n

Outside of her work at Digital Spy, she writes about pop culture, with a special focus towards Irish media and how it intersects with politics.<\/p>\n

You can read more of her work on her Substack<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

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