Satanism, blood and bewitched screams... We are in the sonorous heart of a horror movie where nothing is what it seems. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 26, 2023

Berberian Sound Studio is definitely unique with some wonderful moments that nail what Strickland is going for, but it's too uneven to be something truly great.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 2, 2019

Strangely accessible for a giallo come art-house film; a pleasure from beginning to end, with lavish attention to detail.

| Feb 28, 2019

This is a real cinephile's delight - with Peter Strickland almost gorging on the four cinematic elements of sound (quite literally), cinematography, editing and mise en scène.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2019

You have to hand it to Berberian Sound Studio for originality.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 26, 2019

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.

| Sep 1, 2018

Strickland has created a sublime piece of cinema that is intelligent, comic and one of the most profoundly disturbing films to be seen in recent years.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Full Review | Jan 30, 2018

No one has ever inverted the European horror film with such wit, eloquence and purpose to challenge its audience. If you love this subgenre, you'll feel like BERBERIAN was made exclusively for you. I certainly know I did.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 23, 2017

Director Peter Strickland makes us hear horror in a new way.

| Oct 14, 2016

An intriguing and clever-sounding idea that unfortunately loses its way in the translation from script to screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 8, 2015

Poses some compelling questions about the emotional and mental impact of making dark, violent, disturbing films.

| Aug 26, 2015

Berberian Sound Studio follows Hitchcock's doctrine fully: what information audiences fill in with their imagination is always more horrifying than anything that can be filmed

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 2, 2014

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.

| Dec 31, 2013

Berberian Sound Studio refuses such a climax: it at once celebrates giallo and takes it apart, disassembling it like Derren Brown explaining an illusion.

| Dec 31, 2013

This twisty psychological horror yarn from writer/director Peter Strickland is the best kind, one that is open to many interpretations but can be enjoyed on its own creepy and insinuating surface.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 10, 2013

While it's a loving homage to movies like Dario Argento's Suspiria and is crafted with tons of style, it leaves out one key ingredient: being even remotely scary.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 4, 2013

A movie that may whisper dark secrets into your ears at night, when you're trying to forget it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2013

...stylishly creepy psycho-thriller that pays homage to the Italian horror scene of the '70s.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 7, 2013

For much of British director Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, not much actually happens. But for the devoted cinephile, it's utterly entrancing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2013