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    SOUND OF VIOLENCE (2021)

    Sound and fury...signifying nothing
    Nina RomainBy Nina RomainOctober 5, 2021No Comments3 Mins Read
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    A young girl called Alexis Reeves, who has lost her hearing, regains it after witnessing her father murder her mother one night, and she attacks the former with a kitchen instrument, killing him. With her hearing regained in later life, she now lives as an adult (played by Jasmin Savoy Brown) in modernday LA. She teaches musical theory at college, and with her flatmate and college buddy bestie Marie (Lili Simmons) conducts various “sound experiments” such as recording various sexual activities. These start to get more bizarre such as bondage, as Alexis finds a connection between capturing the sound of violent actions and gaining a sexual thrill.

    She also seems to briefly lose her hearing again and panics, and then starts experimenting by torturing a homeless man to death, beating him with other blunt instruments in a nod to “Saw”. This seems to let her regain the original thrill of killing her father, while recording the death-throes sound effects. Alexis returns to her normal life, half living with Marie and half in her family’s RV, but the corpse is found; as she wasn’t wearing gloves during the torture, it’s surprising she’s not more worried about being caught.

    She continues torturing a range of victims with sound experiments, including a tenor singer who she straps up with electrodes and explodes in a recording booth in a nod to “Scanners”. There’s also a quietly-gory scene where Alexis spikes a harpist’s drink causing her to play the chords in a manner that cuts her fingers and slices her face down the strings, to Alexis’ delight while she records this.

    Marie’s new boyfriend Duke (James Jagger, son of the singer) begins to suspect Alexis, so the latter dupes him into meeting her in her RV. Finally descending into fullblown psycho mode, she ties him up to record torturing him to death, and when Marie arrives full of concern for her roommate and finds Duke’s body, Alexis attacks her as well. She drugs the bloodstained Marie and takes her to the beach where the latter escapes, with musical speakers inserted in her body in a bizarre final musical experiment. This is easily the best Cronenberg-inspired body horror in the film. Marie collapses from her injuries while the police arrive; Alexis staggers away into the LA sunset, mouthing “I’m sorry.”

    Writer and director Alex Noyer has produced a clever film which seems to want to be a lowbudget “Neon Demon” – everyone’s suffering, if not dying, for their art in LA, while trying to turn themselves into a walking art installation and thing of beauty – and there’s some likable performances from Brown and Simmons. There are some unexplained loose ends: why do the two start flirting with each other at the end but then never mention it again?

    “Sound of Violence” also suffers from some B-grade level of hammy acting, and a level of unreality: why does Alexis leave the singer’s body with ID, causing him to be easily identified, and why doesn’t she remove her recording equipment from the harp, which of course would have her fingerprints on it as she still isn’t wearing gloves? Why doesn’t she stop Marie from entering the RV to find Duke’s body? Why does she let Marie finally escape when experimented on and why does she stay nearby to watch?  Noyer needs to adjust his frequency and create a truly-chilling body horror, contrasting the beauty of LA with the ugliness of naked ambition.
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    Nina Romain

    Nina Romain is living proof that small children shouldn’t be taken trick-or-treating in Alabama in the 1980s – they tend to end up obsessed with the creepier side of Halloween! Her horror shorts tend to be shot half in the seedier side of Los Angeles and half in the darker side of the UK. She’s spending this Halloween dressed as a creepy clown at various London horror events and planning to eat her own weight in festive treats. You can find her on www.girlfright.com and IMDB.

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