Masters of Horror - Sounds Like (2006)

Larry s job is to listen. As the head of a tech-support company he has to keep tabs on the conversations between the customers and his employees. But when his son tragically dies his sensitivity to sound gets turned up--all the way up. He can hear things crawling in the walls internal organs swishing and eyeballs moving but he can t turn any of it off. Instead it brings him closer and closer to the brink of insanity and that s when the real horror begins. Chris Bauer (THE WIRE) stars in this story about what happens when the world s noise moves inside the mind.System Requirements:Running Time: 58 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 013138990884 Manufacturer No: N9908 Product Description

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Sounds Like....

This movie from Masters of Horror was a good contribution to the Masters of Horror collection: not a true favorite, yet well done, interesting and original! I would recommend this as a worthy selection to add to the collection for anyone, if you do not expect every single movie in your collection to be a "five stars". : ) as there are some amazingly good five star movies in the Masters of Horror collection as well! March 24, 2008

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not as bad as The Damned Thing or The V Word, this episode has a main character who isn't totally one dimensional, i guess it's conceptually a little reminiscent of Falling Down or Taxi Driver, but there are so many monotonous scenes of the guy contorting his face from all the little sounds that bother him, and all it leads up to is a contextless anticlimactic murder when a suicide would have made a lot more sense. December 7, 2007

may be the best MOH episode

Brad Anderson, while still very young, is proving himself to be truly a master of horror. "Session 9", "The Machinist" and now this. Dang. It's great. Don't expect a balls-to-the-wall horror extravaganza, and you will like what you get. This is more Alfred Hitchcock than Lucio Fulci. Paced well, cerebral, and sounds great. Highly recommended. December 1, 2007

A Not-So-Perfect Pitch

Working at a call center can be a drag, and more so if you are a call supervisor that finds himself continually segregated from the crowd because of your "abilities." That seems to be the problem for Larry Pearce (Chris Bauer), who listens to hundreds of calls a day and starts to notice the "little things." Changes in tones, little pieces that show just how a call will go; he even notices someone texting just because of the sound of it.
And it goes on and on.
As the days rattle on he finds that his sound becomes intensified, to the point of superhuman and beyond. And to stop it - o, to stop it.

As the Masters of Horror series trudges on and continues to explore new concepts, there are continually more middle-ground episodes than there used to be. In the first season most of the tales were complete hits or sad misses, but many of the newer tales are something in-between. As far as Sounds Like goes it was something like that, with episodes like this not really bad and not really good. To be frank, it didn't seem as though it tried too hard to be something out of the ordinary.

It began well enough, setting up a character that had an understandable problem. The episode delved into his personal issues, too, showing exactly why the happenstances were happening. The middle of the episode was much of the same, and the conclusion - well, I laughed a bit at the it and I was saddened a bit by it but I didn't think it really examined the issues at hand.
And, considering this is Masters of Horror, I expected it to be a be more horrific than it was.

If you are new to the episodes, you might want to try a better starting point. If you are are a fan of the series, then you'll probably buy and you'll notice the middle ground I was talking about. I personally like most of the episodes because I look at them for what they are, a horror series that isn't really a movie and isn't really a series. It is a show cutting out the filler, trying to be purely horror.
And the verdict on Sounds Like - it was like a B movie without a lot of boredom. The price is always good and, if needing something to pass some time, you might find it appealing.
November 4, 2007

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