Vic (Amanda Winston) is a sound effects and foley artist, mostly on horror movies, and she's actually rather good at it, as she not only takes bride in her work, she also gels well with the genre thanks to her own dark imagination. But as good as she is, she sees herself as no equal to her idol, the recently deceased Thomas Raven. So when she and her sound engineer Coop (Jason Mackniskas) are approached by filmmaker KMilo Kemp (Bill D. Russell) to finish his film which Raven has started soundwork on, they're both thrilled, especially when Vic's given Raven's (literal) box of tricks which Kemp insists for her to use. That said, once she starts working on the film, she's disappointed by its plot (or lack thereof) and calls it little more than a piece of torture porn. But then again, a job's a job, and she'd follow Raven's footsteps anywhere. Thing is, the deeper she gets into doing sound and foley for the film, the more troubling things become, be it nightmares about the film's content, then hallucinations and ultimately the film seems to somehow sneak into the real world ...

Now this is certainly not your typical horror film, even though the premise, stripped to the bone - a mysterious stranger hiring somebody for something that makes them unwittingly open the door to hell - seems to be genre staple. However, instead of telling the story in a straightforward way, the film goes meta and/or experimental ever so often, mixes planes of reality, and besides all this also sings its own lovesong to sound design in general. And at least if you have an open mind, the result is truly fascinating, basically an audiovisual puzzle that plays with one's mind while never missing a beat when it comes to creeping one out, ultimately resulting in a truly triplike genre experience.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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