Gilderoy is a genius of film sound, a sensitive person when it comes to sounds, their peculiarities and characteristics. A Briton to boot, who has ended up in Italy. He was called by Santini, a magnificent specimen of giallo god. Santini wants Gilderoy to create unprecedented sounds of horror for his latest work - and that he obeys him.
Berberian Sound Studio (2012) is: a nod to the Eurohorror cinema of the 60s and 70s; a homage to the old art of foley artists; an absolutely perfectly crafted essay on the relationship between image and sound in film that is as inspired as it is inspiring in its casual exploration of the zone between avant-garde and pulp in the form of a genre confection. In the end, however, Berberian Sound Studio also proves to be a variation on the Stanford experiment, which is all about the ability of people to be aligned. Remember: almost everyone quickly becomes indifferent to the suffering of others, almost everyone seems capable of committing atrocities if only an authority tells them that this torture and killing is okay. So here: the recording studio becomes a laboratory, the cinema a moral institution.
